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HSBC appoints wealth leader

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... indicated Power's role would see her assume responsibilities for the bank's foreign exchange and online share trading capabilities. According to HSBC, the functions are critical in serving its global customers, who often have financial interests ...

Shareholders put NAB board in the hot seat

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... there was something "amiss" in the way the board ran the bank, as reflected in failed ventures in the UK and the share trading scandal among other examples. The shareholder, who has been a NAB customer for about 50 years, went on to describe the leaders ...

Final call for 2019 Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... Taylor said three of these economic factors are global and two are more geographically specific. The obvious factor is EM trading against the US dollar. The second factor is the US interest rate cycle. "We've got [potentially] four rate hikes between ...

Former Paradice managers launch LIT

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... structure change were covered from Ophir's reserves, not passed on the investors. On the question of a LIT potentially not trading at its fair value, Mitchell said the boutique will have standing on-market buybacks. No additional capital was raised ...

Chief economist update: So much Brexit uncertainty, so little time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
... a potential no-confidence vote as an increasing number of Tories are trying to oust her (Reuters, the Times). Sterling trading at 20-month lows amid the rising Brexit uncertainty as PM May faces difficulties to sell the agreement to a hostile Parliament ...

FIIG turns to institutional market

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
... intermediaries, such as the banks. This is particularly the case in the current market as we are seeing reduced capital allocated to trading and lower headcount in the sector," he said. "We see a significant opportunity to fill this void and satisfy ...

Putting a price tag on clean investing

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... the world GDP in 2017. Countries that are stricter with their carbon policies (in the form of carbon taxes or emissions trading schemes) and invest more into public research and development have historically enjoyed a greater level of cleantech patent ...

Chief economist update: Tariff man takes Wall Street down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
... housing markets, forced selling, JPMorgan chief executive Jamie Dimon's comments that he saw a flat fourth-quarter trading environment. "The first inversion of any portion of the Treasury yield curve in more than a decade awoke the specter of a recession," ...

Blockchain comes to managed funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... 2019. Calastone expects its new distributed market infrastructure (DMI) to dramatically improve the infrastructure for trading and reporting of managed funds. The new market infrastructure is based on distributed ledger technology (DLT). It will create ...

Fiducian acquires Perth financial planning firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... previous financial year. Founder Indy Singh holds about 28% of the company. The stock has risen 177% since it started trading in February 2015 to Friday's close of $4.20 per share.