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Vanguard recruits former industry fund CIO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2017
... Vanguard's Equity Index Group and Quantitative Equity Group. McLaughlin departed the $768 million industry fund in February of this year after three-and-a-half years, succeeded by former State Street Global Advisors business development manager, institutional ...

Macron won't stop populist tide: William Blair

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2017
... is in everybody's lexicon now - it's mainstream. We first started integrating it into our investment decisions in February of 2010, when we saw the Tea Party emerge during the Obama administration. And despite what happened in France recently, it isn't ...

No 'Plan B' for Brexit "twist and turns"

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
... on-going resilience of the British economy to Brexit uncertainties. Despite BOE governor Mark Carney warning only last February of the "twists and turns" heading into Brexit - almost immediately proved true in mid-April when PM Theresa May called for ...

Former AFA chief executive takes top job at FSC NZ

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2016
... Owen Gill who also serves as executive director. Klipin served as chief executive of the AFA from January 2006 to February of 2013 and was made a life member in October of 2013. Klipin has also previously served as chief executive of Millennium 3.

Norwegian pension fund drops 52 coal companies

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2016
... excluded from the roughly $1 trillion Government Pension Fund Global. The exclusions came after the introduction in February of a new "product-based coal criterion" in the fund's investment guidelines. Norges Bank has said this is just the "first tranche ...

September morn' or September mourn?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2013
... to interest rates back then.A The federal funds rate went from 3% in January 1994 to 5.5% in December and 6.0% by February of the following year. Yes Virginia, the Fed doubled the cost of borrowing in just a month and a year! But...but (yeah me like ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... $US3.9570 per lb, after dealing between $US3.8940 and $US3.98. Copper is down about 15 per cent from record highs hit in February of $US10,190 a tonne at the LME and $US4.65 per lb in New York. Calls to revisit records this year are receding due to an ...

Market volatility making boomers nervous

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... volatility on traditional investments, according to a MetLife poll. MetLife's Market Volatility Poll, conducted in February of this year, included 520 financial advisors and 1,038 US adults over the age of 45 with at least $100,000 in investable assets. ...

Developed markets enjoy strong inflows

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2011
... of capital out of emerging markets and into the more hospitable investment environments of the Western world. "In February of this year, there was the largest single monthly capital outflow from emerging markets since 2008," said Felix Stephen, manager ...

F1 scandal forces ING to dump Renault early

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... disappointed at this turn of events, especially in the context of an otherwise successful sponsorship. As announced on 16 February of this year, ING decided not to renew the three year sponsorship (2007-2009) contract with Renault F1 and to end its presence ...