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Dovish Fed, hawkish BOC

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
Janet's in the house. US Fed Chair Janet Yellen's much-awaited testimony did not differ greatly from what was already divulged in the FOMC statement released on 14 June - when the Fed raised the fed funds rate by 25 basis points to 1%-1.25%. In her ...

PIMCO de-risks ahead of expected recession

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... investments that will "bend but not break" in the event of a downturn. Discussing equities, he said he generally prefers Europe and Japan over the US in the developed market space. Talking specifically about Australia, Fels noted that it's in a different ...

AMP Capital grows infrastructure team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... AMP Capital's European infrastructure equity asset team. Based in London, she will report to head of asset management for Europe, David Rees. McBreen was most recently an executive director at UK Government Investments, responsible for a number of infrastructure ...

Transport bolsters listed infrastructure demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... investment opportunities, Deutsche Asset Management head of investment specialists of liquid real assets for Asia Pacific and Europe, Matthias Meyer, said. Australian institutional investors typically have a strong home bias to illiquid direct assets ...

Brexit endangers EU asset manager passport

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... Australian financial services firms, says Sarah Jane Mahmud, a Bloomberg LP senior policy analyst in financial services for Europe. In the event of a 'hard Brexit' scenario, financial services companies would lose the prerogative of operating under one ...

EU markets directive to reshape global alternatives

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
Half of alternative asset managers with offices outside the European Union will apply the EU's Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) policies globally - for those firms delegating portfolio management to a third country, this figure ...

Data dictates immediate BOE action

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
No one expected the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) to raise or lower the official cash rate from its current 1.5% when its board met on the 4 July, but only a few expected the Australian central bank to follow its bigger overseas peers into a more ...

Australian end of financial year sale

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... the final day of FY2016-17 with an EOFYS (end of financial year sale) gauging from the heavy selling on Wall Street and Europe overnight. The S&P 500 index closed 0.9% lower last night (the Nasdaq even more, down 1.4%) while the Stoxx Europe fell by ...

Argo LIC shakes up investment mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2017
... to communications, 1.7% to diversified and 2.4% to cash. The majority (53.2%) of investments are in the US, followed by Europe (13%), Canada (9.1%), Japan (6.3%), Australia (4.4%), Asia-Pacific (4.4%), Latin America (3.6%), the UK (2.2%) and China (1 ...

Asset managers must overhaul operating model: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
Asset managers are finding it tough to achieve growth as a result of investors demanding better portfolio diversification and value for money. That is the view of about two-thirds of 500 global institutional investors highlighted in a State Street study ...