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Global pension fund doubles down on APAC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2020
A major Canadian pension fund is increasing its presence in Asia Pacific, establishing a new office focused on opportunities in Australia and New Zealand. Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan Board (OTPP) opened a new office in Singapore today, marking the ...

Global equities manager hires GM

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... Lynch. Cahill was most recently the bank's chief operating officer for global markets across Australia and South East Asia. For nearly eight years he oversaw the Aussie equities, research, fixed income, currencies and commodities business. Prior ...

Brace for 5% returns from global stocks

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... slightly outpace developed markets...Our expectation of 5.4% of emerging market equity returns, driven primarily by China and Asia, is a mere 0.6% return premium to developed markets." In fixed income, it expects an interest of 1% from 10-year US Treasury ...

Hedge funds in the green

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... outperformed since the beginning of the year, returning 17.87%. However, China-focused funds returned only 1.64% in August. Asia ex-Japan strategies, in comparison, returned 3.85% and 3.86%, respectively. "With continued strong results, China-focused ...

Capital Group hires from BlackRock

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... market. London-based Alexandra Haggard will be Capital Group's head of product and investment services for in Europe and Asia including Australia, tasked with strategy and expansion of the firm's investment services in the region. She was most recently ...

Investors seek to increase EM exposure

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
Asia-based institutional investors and those from around the world expect to increase their emerging market (EM) exposures, both in equity and fixed income, according to Vontobel Asset Management. The Vontobel investor survey found while a minority ...

OpenInvest names chair

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... DataMesh. While at NAB, Pappas was executive general manager for international branches and innovation, chief executive of Asia and executive general manager corporate and institutional banking. He previously spent over a decade in senior roles at ABN ...

Mainstream expands private equity offering

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
Mainstream Fund Services has expanded its private equity services in the Asia-Pacific region. Mainstream said it brought its US private equity solution to Asia-Pacific, to allow general partners to benefit from one complete system for accounting, CRM ...

Chief economist update: The second oil price discounting wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2020
... producer, Saudi Aramco, has cut its key Arab Light grade of crude pricing by a "larger-than-expected amount for shipments to Asia, its main market. It also lowered pricing for U.S. buyers". The first wave of discounting happened in early April after ...

Aussie super funds climb ranks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... modestly from 64.7% the previous year," WTW said. The share of DB funds slightly decreased across all regions except for in Asia-Pacific, where the same level was maintained. "DB plans dominate in North America and Asia-Pacific where they represent 74% ...