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Fund managers take cover behind cash sandbags

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... cash positions to levels not seen since before the financial crisis, the latest global survey from Bank of America Merrill Lynch shows. The July numbers show that cash levels have soared to an average of 5.5%, up from 4.9% in June and 4.5% in May. High ...

Eslake consultancy up and running after leaving BoA

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... amount of work that he has been asked to do through his consultancy firm only weeks after leaving Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML). Speaking to Financial Standard, Eslake said that over the next few days he will be attending an economics conference ...

Eslake leaves Bank of America

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
Bank of America Merrill Lynch (BoAML) chief economist Saul Eslake has left the organisation and a replacement has already been confirmed. A member of the firm's economic team and longtime colleague of Eslake, Alex Joiner, will head BoAML's economics ...

Prime Value appoints distribution head

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2015
... state manager for Victoria, Tasmania and Western Australia. He has also held positions at NAB, Macquarie Bank and Merrill Lynch. At Prime Value, he will manage the company's retail equities strategies, which currently include the Prime Value Opportunities ...

Winter of our discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2015
... slowing trend when the Statistician releases the National Accounts numbers this Wednesday. Already, Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake, has lowered his first quarter growth forecast from 0.5% to 0.3% -- the slowest since the March ...

ACSA awards best custody executives

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2015
... custody industry in the 2015 ACSA Awards. HSBC Securities Service manager of corporate actions Alvaro Martinez, Merrill Lynch head of operations Stephen Hacker, Citibank director of custody and clearing Miles O'Connor and RBC associate director of marketing ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... Gilead Sciences shed 2.5 per cent. Exceptions included Netflix (+1.9 per cent), which was upgraded by Bank of America Merrill Lynch, and Tesla Motors (+1.1 per cent), which reports earnings on Wednesday. LONDON - Eurozone stocks have tumbled on fears ...

The RBA not in full control of dollar-A

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... property market, low interest rates have thus far failed to stoke Australia's "animal spirits". Bank of America Merrill Lynch chief economist Saul Eslake says it best: "Albert Einstein is supposed to have said the definition of insanity is doing the ...

PM Capital CEO leaves, replacement announced

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... quantitative research solutions provider Rismark. Before that, he worked in the United States and Australia for Merrill Lynch and Credit Suisse, where he focused on mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance advisory. At PM Capital he will be responsible ...

JPMorgan appoints investment banking vice chairman

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2015
... real estate investment banking. He has over two decades of industry experience and has also held senior roles at Merrill Lynch and stockbroker BBY. Simon has worked on a broad range of major and transformational transactions across the retail, energy ...