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2013 Chief Economists Forum, reserve your seat now

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... Confirmed chief economists include Macquarie Group's Richard Gibbs, Bob Baur, Principal Global Investors, Saul Eslake, Bank of America Merril Lynch and Su-Lin Ong, RBC Capital Markets (Sydney only). The premier events will be held in Sydney on Tuesday ...

China's coming soft landing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
... making Australia's concerns with just a "two-speed" economy seem somewhat hillbilly. Ting Lu, an economist at Bank of America-Merrill Lynch, was even more more upbeat, saying, "The Chinese economy is now in a sweet-spot and can stay in the sweet-spot ...

UBS to cut up to 10 000 jobs

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2012
... "significant acceleration" in its transformation, as well as appoint a new executive, Andrea Orcel, formerly of Bank of America Corp, to lead it. The current co-head of the investment bank, Carsten Kengeter, is stepping down from the group's executive ...

Lazard consolidates Sydney foothold

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... bankers and key decision-makers around the world," said O'Sullivan a former London-based managing director of Bank of America. Garren Cronin, Partner of O'Sullivan Partners - and former senior vice president at Citigroup Investment Banking - will become ...

Nomura hires ex-RBS fixed income head

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 28 AUG 2012
... Nomura's second big hire in recent times, with The Wall Street Journal reporting the bank had poached Sydney-based Bank of America Merrill Lynch managing director and equity strategist Tim Rocks in July. "Jon is a significant addition to our team and ...

Julius Baer buys Merrill Lynch wealth

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... Julius Baer will acquire Merrill Lynch's International Wealth Management business outside the United States from Bank of America. It's understood Julius Baer paid 860 million Swiss francs for the acquisition, which is expected to add up to 72 billion ...

Julius Baer, BOC in private wealth JV

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... launch of a range of renminbi products, available to clients worldwide. Julius Baer also said it was in talks with Bank of America Corporation on buying the non-US wealth management operations of Merrill Lynch. The Swiss bank reckons that there are more ...

OneVue names chief executive

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
... the wealth management industry for 20 years and was formerly a vice president and client relationship manager at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. "Having announced three intermediated consumer platform deals since December last year, we needed a dedicated ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
... economy. Major banks led the rise, shrugging off ratings downgrades from Moody's: JPMorgan Chase added 1.6 per cent; Bank of America 1.4 percent; Citigroup 0.5 percent; and Morgan Stanley 1.4 percent. Goldman Sachs though ended 0.2 percent lower. The ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAY 2012
... sent markets into a spin. At the close, the Dow Jones Industrial Average was down 62 points with Hewlett-Packard, Bank of America, Intel and Caterpillar all taking a pummelling. The Dow stood at 13,206.59 at the close. The materials, energy and technology ...