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Pension fund giant mandates Fidelity

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
The $2 trillion Japanese pension fund has appointed Fidelity's asset management arm to manage passive domestic equities. The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) appointed FIL Investments Japan and Resona Bank on December 26. Both will manage ...

AXA IM backs Japanese logistics

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... and an Asia Pacific real estate developer have teamed with AXA Investment Managers' real assets division to create a Japanese logistics business. The joint venture is being established through the purchase of six logistics assets in Japan for more than ...

CFS swaps global equities managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
... chief executive at October end. CBA's asset management business CFSGAM was excluded from the demerger and sold to Japanese bank Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (MUTB) in a transaction expected to settle in mid-2019.

Chief economist update: Where are the BOJ exit speculators now?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... Fed's lead and start implementing an exit strategy. Speculations started to gain prominence as early as January when the Japanese central bank "reduced purchases of 10 to 25 year bonds and 25 to 40 year paper by Â¥10B ($88.39 million) each, from ...

Chief economist update: Thanks for nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... policy back to normality, that is, reducing system-wide liquidity. We only have to look back at the GFC and Grexit and Japanese deflation and everything in between to realise that the world had had bigger challenges back then than the one it faces now. ...

CBA sells CFSGAM, new wealth business chief executive appointed

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
Commonwealth Bank is selling Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFSGAM) to a Japanese buyer. The bank has entered into an agreement with Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (MUTB) to sell the business for $4.13 billion for a total ...

Chief economist update: BOJ on a steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... decision tomorrow. Monetary policy settings will remain unchanged - policy rate unchanged at -0.1%; the target for 10-year Japanese government bond (JGBs) yield at around zero; and, bond purchases would be maintained at an annual pace of ¥80 trillion ...

Board director departs life insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2018
... the company's annual general meeting in November. Wakuya is general manager, head of business development division at Japanese insurer Sony Life. The move follows the end of a co-operation agreement between ClearView and Sony Life that lasted 18 months ...

Schroders, Lloyds mull wealth venture

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... and asset consulting practice for Towers Perrin in Asia, based in Hong Kong. He joined Schroders in London in 2000 as a Japanese equities product manager and was the head of distribution for Australia between 2001 and 2004.

S&P Dow Jones partners with pension fund giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... an international pension fund that will benchmark its ESG investment strategy against two newly launched indices. The Japanese Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) is using two of S&P's new carbon efficient indices. Launched overnight, S&P Global ...