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Brazilian CB might need to stop shaving

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2013
Phew! We got passed that air pocket so easily, didn't we now? Equities are once again flying high. Never mind the still inconclusive Italian elections because judging from last night's Italian bond auction, financial markets aren't really that scared. ...

ORIX acquires 90% of Robeco from Rabobank

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
Japanese-based financial services group ORIX Corporation announced today the acquisition of 90.01 per cent of the equities in Robeco from Rabobank for around $2.5 billion. Robeco is a mid-sized global asset manager based in the Netherlands that manages ...

On positive contagion, reflation and the great rotation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... great rotation. Reflation. Yes. The central banks are still onto it... and are being joined by others. The Reserve Bank of India (RBI) lowered interest rates and its reserve requirement only last week. Speculation is that the Bank of Korea would follow ...

Open wide, come inside

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... should help increase fund inflows into the country, easing pressure on the current account and give the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) room to lower interest rates. It didn't take long. Though hard to justify given India's still high inflation rate, the ...

GFG Group partners with Attra to boost payment service

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
Electronic payment software company GFG Group has partnered with Australian IT company Attra in a bid to boost service delivery to existing and new clients and increase competitiveness in emerging markets. Attra specialises in providing independent ...

PhillipCapital boosts local presence

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
Singapore-based integrated financial house, PhillipCapital launched in Australia this week following the rebranding of Australian broking and advisory firm Octa Phillip. The move is expected to boost PhillipCapital's scale in Australia across wealth ...

2013

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
Economists like predicting the future and so as 2012 draws to a close, what will be the big themes of 2013 for Australian institutional investors? The first one will be that Australia, as a fundamentally nervous nation, will continue to do all it can ...

Corporate Asian bonds on fire: HSBC

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2012
Due to flush liquidity, the rise of a hungry institutional investor base locally, and regulators keen to loosen up the region's reliance on bank funding, Asia's bond markets - currently running red hot - are to expected maintain rapid growth in years ...

Emerging market bubbles present opportunity: Tyndall

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2012
... the managers conceded there would be short-term challenges to the growth of economies such as China, Brazil, Russia and India - significantly subdued demand from the west, they had the means, scale and opportunity to refocus their economies domestically ...

BTIM launches emerging market strategy

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
BT Investment Management has launched a new emerging market fund to be made available to Australian investors. The BT Global Emerging Markets Opportunities fund comes from London-based boutique investment house JO Hambro Capital Management, which BTIM ...