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Must prepare for demise of LIBOR: RBA

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... including ASIC, APRA and the Reserve Bank - are strongly encouraging financial institutions and corporations that use derivatives contracts referencing LIBOR to review and, wherever practical, adhere to the ISDA protocol," Kent said. "There is also a ...

Frontier hires from Cbus

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2021
Frontier has hired a senior portfolio manager from Cbus to lead its alternatives and derivatives team. Scott Pappas was most recently at Cbus as a senior portfolio manager in absolute return strategies. Prior to this, he worked as a part of Vanguard's ...

Ardea launches fund to European investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
... investors, leveraging the services of Fidante Partners. The Ardea Global Alpha Fund invests in government bonds and related derivatives and will be distributed to European investors via Ardea's strategic partnership with Fidante. The Ardea Global ...

Boutique manager hires from Talaria

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2021
... Jonker spent two years at Goldman Sachs in New York as a project manager for interest rate, foreign exchange and credit derivatives products and worked at Deloitte in South Africa and Chicago. Alphinity principal and chief executive Johan Carlberg said ...

Senator calls for super funds to stop shorting

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2021
... of any well-functioning market, and while required for short selling is also used for many other purposes such as derivatives hedging, balance sheet optimisation, index fair value and dual-listing relative value transactions." Rennick did not clarify ...

Frontier on hiring spree

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
... hiring senior consulting and research roles across investment governance, responsible investing and alternatives and derivatives disciplines. "We are hopeful of adding another three senior consulting roles in the coming weeks in alternatives, investment ...

BlackRock appoints APAC lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... BlackRock for about eight years, having first joined in 2013 from Citigroup where was global head of corporate equity derivatives. Prior to that she spent 13 years at Morgan Stanley. The appointment of one of the firm's strongest leaders to head ...

BlackRock readies for crypto exposure

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
... BlackRock's funds - the BlackRock Global Allocation Fund and BlackRock Funds V - could potentially trade in bitcoin derivatives. "Each fund may use instruments referred to as derivatives, which are financial instruments that derive their value from one ...

BNP Paribas to offer initial margin services

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2021
... collateral management services in Asia Pacific, to include initial margin requirements arising for non-cleared OTC derivatives positions. Initial margin rules for non-cleared derivatives transactions started to phase in from September 2016, with the ...

HESTA hires from Frontier

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
The $56 billion superannuation fund has hired Frontier's head of alternatives and derivatives. Michael Sommers has been appointed HESTA's general manager portfolio construction and risk and will join its investment leadership structure. Sommers ...