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Australian managers most focused on ESG

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2015
... 78% of CFA Institute members in the Asia Pacific region consider ESG issues. Investors from Europe, the Middle East and Africa region ranked lower at 74%, and were followed by those in the Americas regions, with only 59% of them caring about ESG factors. ...

McDonalds chief appointed by ANZ

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... retail customers. Noble joins ANZ from McDonalds where she was chief restaurant officer for Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa - responsible for more than 10,000 restaurants and 200,000 people. Previously, she held senior roles during her career at ...

Market to open lower

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
... quarter production report while Petsec Energy is slated to have a briefing on its June quarter results. And, Woolworths South Africa chief executive and David Jones chairman Ian Moir, Macquarie Capital's head of Retail and Consumer David Mustow and Salmat ...

KKR invests in German fibre-optics via $4.2bn infra fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... megabit-per-second by 2018." "We are excited to partner with Reggeborgh in building a top infrastructure company," KKR head of Europe, Africa and Middle East Johannes Huth said. "With our capital resources and experience, we will bring Deutsche Glasfaser ...

Northern Trust appoints Australian head

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
... most recently was head of business development for Northern Trust's asset servicing business in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Prior to this, she was managing director of the Nordic region, based in Stockholm. "Northern Trust's business in the ...

Northern Trust wins NZ Super mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... Matt Whineray said. Wayne Bowers, chief investment officer for Northern Trust Asset Management for Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific added: "We are delighted to have the opportunity to further our relationship with New Zealand Superannuation ...

Van Eck lists gold miners ETF on ASX

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... Agnico-Eagle Mines (5.22%). The country exposure gave Canada 54.5% of the portfolio, 13.5% to the United States, 10% to South Africa, 7.3% to Australia and 4.9% to China. "Many investors prefer to purchase gold miners' equities as their value historically ...

Australia bottom of the class for portfolio disclosure

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... investor experiences in 25 countries (expanded to 29 for the published article) across North America, Europe, Asia, and Africa. The biannual report takes a close look at portfolio disclosure practices. The study found that Australia is the only market ...

Saxo launches trading platform for SMSFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2015
... trading clients in France earlier this month. SaxoTraderGO is already available to clients in Europe, Middle East, North Africa, Asia Pacific and Latin America.

Van Eck goes local on EM fixed income

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2015
... generic overall blessing of all local currency markets. A lot of them don't seem to make sense, but Brazil, Zambia, South Africa, and Colombia do pay high interest rates and we think they're too high." "What Brazil is doing is some of the most boring ...