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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 ...

AMP Capital receives $200m from OPB

HARRY PAGE:  |  THURSDAY, 18 DEC 2014
AMP Capital has received a $200 million commitment from the Canadian pension plan Ontario Pension Board (OPB) to invest in its global investment strategy. OPB's Private Markets' managing director Glenn Hubert said OPB was impressed by AMP Capital's ...

Big changes on way for pension funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 DEC 2014
... asset owner to asset managers is seeing some very complex hybrid organisations emerge, noted the report. For example, the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board in the past five years has built up an internal investment team to 400 people spanning public ...