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VanEck rejigs Australian leadership for APAC expansion

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
VanEck's Australian arm announced a raft of expanded roles, including the promotion of its managing director. As part of an initiative to strengthen the delivery of VanEck's solutions in Asia, several Australian team members will take on leadership ...

Chief economist update: Red light on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... rest of the world would be spending their upwardly revised growth on. Year-to-date, the greenback is down 3.0% against the euro, down 4.9% versus the pound and down 3.1% vis-a-vis the yen. This is on top of the dollar's depreciation in 2017 of 3.0% ...

Australia increases foreign direct investment inflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
Australia was one of few countries to see foreign direct investment inflows increase in 2017, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development. The UNCTAD Global Investment Trends Monitor shows international flows of foreign direct ...

Infrastructure investment needs rethink

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
Infrastructure investors which become heavily involved in infrastructure development must reconsider investment approaches in 2018 as tried-and-tested project management models do not fit modern demands. Global infrastructure financing firm AECOM recently ...

Asset management services provider expands to Australia

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
A global brokerage firm has acquired a licence to offer multi-asset investment management services in Australia. Blackwell Global Hong Kong attained a licence via the Hong Kong Securities and Futures Commission to issue asset management services relating ...

Insurtech associations form global alliance

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
A group of associations representing insurance technology have co-founded a new Global InsurTech Alliance (GITA). Insurtech Australia, along with Insurtech London, Insurtech Asia and FinTechNZ are co-founders, along with future partners in Europe and ...

Global trading platform opens Sydney office

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
Institutional trading platform firm Tourmaline Partners is opening an office in Sydney and will be led by two former Northern Trust executives. James Santo and Neil Hetherington were appointed as managing directors of Tourmaline's Australian operations ...

IOSCO issues caution over ICOs

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
... points out the transaction can also be in exchange for government-backed or official fiat currency such as the US Dollar or Euro. Following an IOSCO discussion in October about the growing use of ICOs to raise capital, several statements from regulators ...

Global investment group enters Australia via local partnership

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
A global investment manager headquartered in London and Dubai, which specialises in bespoke strategies for sophisticated investors, is entering the Australian institutional market with the help of a local representative. The Entrepreneur's Investment ...

Lendlease and Canadian pension fund enter $2.6bn investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
Australian property and infrastructure giant Lendlease and a $330 billion Canadian pension fund are committing to a $2.6 billion build-to-rent investment partnership in the UK. Lendlease's partnership with the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) ...