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Financial institution charged over Epstein scandal

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
The US Department of Financial Services (DFS) has hit Deutsche Bank with a US$150 million penalty for the bank's relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein. This marks the first enforcement action by a regulator against a financial institution ...

IFM Investors acquires super fund-owned port

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2019
... shareholders well as they embark on the next phase of the port's growth story." It represents PSA's first investment in Eastern Europe, with the group saying it is looking forward to working closely with the Polish Development Fund and IFM to further ...

Christian Super names new chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 OCT 2017
... two years. He also worked for the international arm as a senior director of operations for the Middle East and Eastern Europe based in Cyprus. Between 2005 and 2010, he was the head of corporate risk at Macquarie Group. Christian Super chair Neville ...

Hedge funds suffer worst year since 2011

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... all hedge fund regional investment mandates. They have outperformed the MSCI AC Asia ex Japan Index by over 14%. Eastern Europe and Russia-dedicated hedge fund strategies posted the worst returns in December, down 4.48% for the month following the steep ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... is strong innovation in Asia, there is no comparison to other so-called emerging markets like Latin America or Eastern Europe. The only market as interesting is the United States, but the US is a developed market, it is well understood and people tend ...

How to understand emerging markets

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... grouped in the north-east bloc; sub-Saharan Africa, South America and Indonesia in the north-west bloc; Mexico, Eastern Europe, Turkey and the Indian sub-continent in the south-west bloc; and China-centred East Asia in the south-east bloc. "The developed ...

Bravura appoints new CFO

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2014
... of global healthcare IT provider iSOFT. Prior to this, he served as regional COO / CFO with CSC for Central and Eastern Europe, and he also held senior finance and operations roles at TNT and StorageTek in EMEA. On his new role Deda commented: "Given ...

Days of outstanding emerging markets returns numbered

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
The opportunity for outstanding returns from the world's developing economies may have shifted to frontier markets, according to the latest annual CREATE-Research report. Commissioned by Principal Global Investors, the report is produced from the results ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open lower after falls on Wall Street as Eastern Europe tensions escalate with Russian troops seizing Ukrainian ships and military installations in Crimea. At 0645 AEDT on Tuesday, the June share price index futures ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... Street providing a tepid lead following an anaemic batch of economic data. As the threat of an armed conflict in Eastern Europe has subsided, investor confidence in higher risk assets has slowly returned, sending the safe-haven yen falling against the ...