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Chief economist update: China recovery would have been good for Oz

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2020
... Morrison's inquiry into the origins of COVID-19 in mid-May; and second, in response to the passage of the security law in Hong Kong, Australia announced extension of visas to Hong Kong citizens with a view towards permanent residency in Australia ...

Spaceship Super gets boost from Voyager

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2020
... existing investors, which include billionaire Mike-Cannon Brookes's family office Grok Ventures, AirTree Ventures and Hong Kong-based Horizon Ventures. "We have looked at it in the past [getting an RSE licence]. It's not on our current super ...

Chief economist update: Second waving, not drowning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... before this, China and Hong Kong's sharemarkets have been moving on up despite the passage of the security law for Hong Kong -- prohibiting acts of secession, subversion, terrorism and collusion with foreign forces to endanger national security -- ...

Mirae drops fees on Asian equities funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... $300 million for Australian institutional investors in two Asian equities (ex Japan) strategies that are managed by a Hong Kong-based team: the Asia Sector Leaders Equity Fund and Asia Great Consumer Equity Fund. In March, it hired Tim Reimers from Russell ...

Schroders director jumps to Robeco

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... In her new role as a director, client portfolio management, quant strategies APAC at Robeco, Cheng will be based in Hong Kong and focus on Robeco's distribution teams in Asia Pacific in offering its quant and factor investing strategies. She will work ...

Australia lagging on robo-advice

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... latest Robo-advice Report, which surveyed around 20,000 online investors in the US, UK, Germany, France, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia to find that not only is Australia struggling with adapting, it is being left behind by the US. Investment Trends ...

EM winners, losers emerge in COVID-19 struggle

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... covered it up," Cirami said. "A geopolitical fissure began to emerge in reaction to China's new law that supersedes the Hong Kong constitution and threatens the end of 'one country, two systems'." These tensions, as well as various EM's response to the ...

BNP Paribas appoints APAC custody lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... has been appointed as head of Asia Pacific for BNP Paribas Securities Services, commencing September 1 and based in Hong Kong. He will replace Mostapha Tahiri who took on the role in February 2019. A spokesperson for BNP Paribas said Tahiri is leaving ...

Melbourne boutique partners with Swiss bank

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... bank's private and institutional clients. UBP is currently growing its presence in Asia Pacific, with offices in place Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei and Tokyo. It recently opened an Australian onshore branch, via the Hong Kong subsidiary, to support ...

Pessimism strikes Australia, US optimistic

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... when the S&P plunged 37% and the MSCI posted a loss of 40.33%. Australian financial professionals, as well as those in Hong Kong, Italy and Germany, are notably pessimistic about stock performance in their own market, projecting double digit losses for ...