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Vanguard global chief executive steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
... Asia Pacific and was a director of Vanguard Investments Australia. He joined the firm in 1999 in portfolio management and trading. Davis' experience as a portfolio manager and leader of investment management teams makes him an excellent steward of clients' ...

BlackRock hires new executives

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
... She will also help institutional investors tackle issues when it comes to portfolio construction and risk management, trading and liquidity management, and regulatory change. For the last 13 years Petering led the private investor product group at Goldman ...

Business conditions return to pre-GFC levels

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUL 2017
... the highest reading since January 2008 (pre-GFC) boosted by increased profitability (to 15 in June from 10 in May) and trading conditions/sales (to 21 from 15). Profitability I could understand because labour costs - businesses' biggest expenditure - ...

Low inflation exporter

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... US Census Bureau had US imports of goods and services from China at 17.1% of total - more than its historical biggest trading partners Canada (14.5%) and Mexico (12.0%). The Federal Reserve Board was correct (back then), the correlation between US and ...

Good goings-on in China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
... the US dollar has appreciated by 2.2% this year to date while the offshore yuan exchange rate has gained 2.4, with both trading at CNY6.80 to US$1. Likewise, the Shanghai composite index has risen by 3.3% since the start of 2017 - relatively a small ...

IRESS secures NSX deal

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUL 2017
... "essential" by NSX managing director Ann Bowering. "We are delighted to be working with IRESS to provide direct access to trading on the NSX market by leveraging the IRESS network and trading community," Bowering said. "It is essential that NSX provide ...

The Fed's inflation and asset price conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JUN 2017
... valuations, and those ratios ought to depend on long-term interest rates." Factset data shows that the S&P 500 is currently trading at a forward P/E of 17.7 times earnings - above its five-year (13.7x), 10-year (14.1x) and 15-year (15.8x) averages. Despite ...

ASIC bans ex-AMP adviser

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2017
... suffered a financial loss. Meanwhile, ASIC's Markets Disciplinary Panel slapped Macquarie Securities with a $505,000 fine for trading "recklessly." An investigation in 2014 found Macquarie customised the parameters of its concurrent bid-offer filter ...

Senior hires at Northern Trust

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... Robert Arnott, Asia regional manager for the institutional brokerage business. McDonough has more than 20 years' experience trading Asia-Pacific equity markets on both the buy and sell side, working for firms such as ITG, Deutsche Asset Management and ...

JB Financial enters buyout mode

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... advantage," JB Financial chief executive Stuart McAuliffe said. The second proposed acquisition is Genesis Proprietary Trading, founded in 2016 and, JB Financial said, "highly complementary to JB Financial's existing broking operations." The non-binding ...