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HUB24 adds international portfolios to platform

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2015
... international listed companies via professionally managed portfolios from more than 15 global markets across North America, Europe and Asia. Arnhem Investment Management will be the first manager available on the platform with its Australia+ strategy ...

Whitehelm and Cisco to deliver digital city management

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2015
... such as public WiFi with social investments such as schools and hospitals," explained Whitehelm head of infrastructure for Europe and Americas Stephen Burns. "Institutional investors have reacted very positively to the opportunity of funding critical ...

PIMCO appoints world leaders to advisory board

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
PIMCO has appointed five world leaders to a newly-created Global Advisory Board that will contribute to the firm on global economic, political and strategic developments. The board will be chaired by former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke. The ...

Super fund appetite for property funding up

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
Australian superannuation funds are stepping in to fill a funding gap for property development left by the big four banks' increased capital requirements, according to a specialist capital provider. Real estate investment management firm Qualitas, which ...

Default super should have base ESG standard: RIAA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2015
Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) is calling for default superannuation investments to include a base level of environmental, social and governance (ESG) standards. In its latest discussion paper RIAA has proposed MySuper products ...

Northern Trust acquires brokerage firm

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... execution services. The acquisition of Aviate Global will allow Northern Trust to expand its brokerage capabilities in the Europe and Middle East, and Asia Pacific regions. It plans to serve both institutional and family office clients: "This transaction ...

Pessimistic investment horizon for super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... think about," she said. J.P. Morgan Asset Management managing director and chief market strategist for United Kingdom and Europe, Stephanie Flanders, told the keynote session there are several views of the future investment landscape and any of them ...

Fairy tales may come true

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... interest rates six times since November last year and is expected to do some more? But let's not stop at China, there's Europe -- where the ECB is expected to throw whatever else it could find in its kitchen after having already thrown the sink - and ...

The GFC is still among us: Varoufakis

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
... before 2008 was destroyed by the GFC, but was never replaced. "The crisis we are experiencing everywhere, in the States, in Europe, now in China, is the repercussion of that fact. This is why the GFC is still with us. It transforms, it migrates and takes ...

Swiss franc surprise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2015
Francly my dear, it couldn't have come soon enough. No Virginia, that wasn't a typo for the Swiss franc is back in the news again. As Bloomberg reports, "The franc fell against all but one of its 16 major peers Friday." "The franc dropped 0.7 percent ...