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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 ...

Wealthy investors bullish thanks to advice

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2014
... or market crash, a factor cited by almost half (49%) of investors. Geo-political events such as turbulence in the Middle East (41%) and the slowdown in China (38%) also weighed on the minds of investors. Factors closer to home such as a lack of confidence ...

Brumbie: Misguided attacks on SMSFs, enough already

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2014
... now have to add a fourth. The first was George Bush for his trickery that fooled the Western world into kicking the Middle East ants' nest leaving a trail of mayhem that just goes from bad to worse and will most likely take a century to resolve itself. ...

Market wrap PM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
The Australian stock market has opened lower as tensions increase over Ukraine and the Middle East conflicts. Australia's market followed negative leads on Wall Street overnight with all three major US exchanges ending the day in the red. The Dow Jones ...