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Industry fund backs US toll road

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2016
... fund was largely put down to a sale of Moto Hospitality, a chain of service stations in the United Kingdom. Meanwhile Canadian pension funds have flagged their interest in Australian infrastructure.

Canadian pension funds keeping eyes on Aussie infra

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
... Port of Brisbane has been listed as one of the more recent success stories among alternative investments by the top 10 Canadian public pension funds. A study by The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) last month found that Canada's 10 largest public pension ...

Easing cycle over for now

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... short exposure to US Treasuries in the Goldman Sachs Global Strategic Bond fund and a corresponding long position in Canadian interest rates, anticipating weakness in commodity-driven economies. Amid ongoing weakness in peripheral Europe, Reynolds is ...

PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... is up 21.6% versus the yen, 7.8% against sterling, 27% vis-A -vis the Australian dollar, and 20% stronger against the Canadian dollar. This compares with the US dollar's 3.5% appreciation against the yuan - including the past two days' "devaluation". ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... 0.2% quarter on quarter -- from 0.5% in Q4 2014; Germany to 0.3% and the UK to 0.3%, from 0.7% and 0.6%, respectively. Canadian and Swiss GDP growth (released after the OECD report) rode the same slow (reversing?) train to the first quarter. Canada's ...

Aurora appoints portfolio manager from Philo

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... materials at Citigroup investment research. He holds bachelor degrees in both Economics and Law from Sydney University, Canadian Securities Course and is a CFA charter holder. Aurora manages funds of approximately $150 million on behalf of over 2,500 ...

'Brexit' betting booths now taking bets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2015
... typed "forward guidance" reminded me of the man who brought it first to central banks' lexicon - Bank of England's (BOE) Canadian central bank import, Mark Carney. Mark Carney has not lifted a finger - no alteration in monetary policy - since he assumed ...

PBOC to QE?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2015
... dollar has appreciated by 33% against the euro, 26% against the Australian dollar, 21% against the Japanese yen and the Canadian dollar and 15% against the British pound. Over the same timeframe, the US dollar has ticked up by a mere 2.8% versus the ...

Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... QE'd and the Bank of Canada (BOC) announced a surprise rate cut. Ipso facto, the RBA could (must?) too. Why must our Canadian brethrens have all the fun? And besides, the RBA had been sitting on an unchanged 2.5% cash rate for 18 months now and indications ...

AMP Capital awarded $250m global infrastructure mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JAN 2015
AMP Capital has received a US$200 million ($248 million) commitment, with additional co-investment rights, from Canadian pension plan Ontario Pension Board (OPB) to invest in its global infrastructure strategy. The global infrastructure strategy was ...