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Mercer announces internal promotions

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
... Julio A. Portalatin announced that David Anderson will take the growth markets role, overseeing Latin America, Asia, Middle East and Africa. Walsh will succeed Anderson in the managing director role. Commenting on the announcement, Mercer president EuroPac ...

QIC executive departs for Middle Eastern sovereign wealth fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 30 MAR 2015
QIC's head of investment performance and risk has left the company to manage a sovereign wealth fund in the Middle East. Having joined QIC in 2008 as head of investment compliance and risk management, Sam O'Sullivan moved to his previous role in 2012. ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAR 2015
... upbeat indicators out of the eurozone. Oil prices also enjoyed support from concerns about unrest in the crude-rich Middle East following news Saudi Arabian jets had struck rebel positions in neighbouring Yemen. Tokyo tumbled 1.39 per cent, or 275.08 ...

NAB custody executive general manager departs

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2015
... finance globally, including senior roles in fund services businesses across the Asia Pacific, Europe, Asia and the Middle East. "Matt is an experienced and talented executive with an outstanding track record of delivery at custody businesses, both in ...

CFSGAM completes fundraising for European infrastructure fund

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... majority are pension funds and insurance companies from a diversified client base across Europe, Asia, Australia, Middle East and North America. The fund focuses predominantly on mid-market European companies which CFSGAM said enables it to access traditionally ...

Nikko AM adds senior executives to global team

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2014
... senior executives to lead the firm's consultant relations globally, sales in North Asia and client development in the Middle East, Africa and Asia. London-based John Howland-Jackson has joined as vice chairman of Nikko Asset Management Europe and Senior ...

Caterpillar economy turns into a butterfly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 OCT 2014
... markets such as China are dragging instead of driving growth. The sense of tumult is being exacerbated by war in the Middle East, the standoff in Ukraine, street protests in Hong Kong and the spread of Ebola to Dallas."... and midway through, it had ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... gutters... the Fed said so itself. But this time, it's a bit different. While the Arab Spring brought uncertainty in the Middle East and raised the oil price back then, oil prices have been dropping despite the current tensions. There was also Japan's ...

Billionaires: How typical are you?

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 SEP 2014
... region with billionaire numbers up 10.2% and total wealth of those 560 billionaires up 18.7% to US$1.4 trillion. The Middle East has also seen strong growth in total wealth, up 16.7% to US$413 billion, though the population of billionaires has shrunk ...

Gold stocks undervalued but likely to rise

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... to support the gold price at current levels," he said. Uncertainties and conflicts such as the latest events in the Middle East and instability in Ukraine are likely to underpin the gold price throughout this year and the next. "In the US, financial-market ...