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JP Morgan-linked ship in US $1bn drug bust

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 JUL 2019
... On June 17, federal, state and local law enforcement agents boarded the ship when it was parked at a terminal in Philadelphia and seized 19.76 tons of cocaine. "Seizure of a vessel this massive is complicated and unprecedented - but it is appropriate ...

Chief economist update: Glass half-full or US recession on the way?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
... 2%-2.25% has increased to 44.6% from 38.1%. The financial markets are in good company. In an interview this month, Philadelphia Federal Reserve Bank emeritus economist Leonard Nakamura, was quoted saying: "People think we're just a half percent or ...

Chief economist update: It's always slow in America in Q1

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
... other quarters." CNBC quoted Tom Stark - manager of the Real-Time Data Research Centre at the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia - observing that "Q1 GDP growth tends to be the lowest of the four quarters" and the Brent Moulton - the BEA's associate ...

Vanguard Australia appoints new managing director

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... US-based role. Kelton will now be Vanguard's global head of marketing, based at the group's headquarters outside Philadelphia. He had led the Australian business since 2015. Kolimago is expected to take reigns of Vanguard's Australian business ...

Boutique investment bank expands in Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2017
... financial services sector is headquartered in New York. The bank also has partners in London, San Francisco, Denver, Philadelphia and now Sydney.

Global $430bn manager enters Australian market

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2017
... particularly valuable to Australian investors," Martin said. Established in the US in 1991, Hamilton Lane has offices in Philadelphia, New York, San Francisco, San Diego, Las Vegas, Miami, London, Munich, Hong Kong, Rio de Janeiro, Tel Aviv, Tokyo, Seoul ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2016
... Dallas Fed manufacturing survey Consistent with the significant improvement in recent surveys in the US regions of Philadelphia, Richmond, Kansas City and New York, the Dallas Fed general business activity index surged to a reading of 10.2 in November ...

Legg Mason Brandywine fund gets top rating again

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 SEP 2016
... strong endorsement from investors and performance track record supports this value proposition." Brandywine is a Philadelphia-based affiliate of Legg Mason, with a focus on unconstrained, benchmark-agnostic investing. The global opportunistic strategy ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
... The 'permanent income hypothesis" helps explain the slowing in Australian retail sales. US Philly Fed survey The Philadelphia Fed's latest business outlook survey tells the same story of a good headline but not so good details. The general business conditions ...

PROFILE: Vanguard Australia managing director Colin Kelton

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
... have ended up if he hadn't. "I just got a job one day and it happened to be at Vanguard," Kelton says. He grew up in Philadelphia, the city where Jack Bogle headquartered the business when he founded it in 1975. It wasn't Kelton's very first job out ...