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UK pensions tapped to strengthen local startups

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2023
... shortage of scale up capital holding back so many of our most promising companies. "Increasing borrowing through £28 billion a year of unfunded spending commitments, as some are suggesting, would entrench inflation and push up interest rates," he said. ...

Treasury mandates APRA consider climate risks in duties

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2023
... result, the government and APRA could look to this useful work when implementing this important initiative in Australia." Last year, government released a whitepaper outlining their approach to mandatory climate reporting and conducted a wide consultation ...

Advisory group appoints head of investment strategy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2022
... head of investment strategy. Marc Wait has joined the group in the role, based in Sydney. He was most recently head of treasury at the Emirates' Sovereign Wealth Fund, Abu Dhabi Investment Authority where he was involved in running portfolios and selecting ...

NZ Super Fund delivers 30%

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2021
... Super Fund continues to outperform Australian MySuper funds, posting its a best-ever return of 29.6%. The 2020-21 financial year saw the fund reach new heights of NZD$59.8 billion, an increase of NZD$15 billion year on year. It also beat the New Zealand ...

TCorp hires CBA capital markets executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
... managing the state's balance sheet. Kenna spent 20 years at CBA, most recently as its head of programmatic funding for over a year. His other leadership positions there included head of debt capital markets origination and managing director of debt markets. ...

Commonwealth seeks to stop bond class action

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
Orders have been made in a case brought against the Commonwealth by a 23-year-old student over climate change risk as it relates to government bonds, as the government attempts to stop the class action. Katta O'Donnell is seeking to hold the Australian ...

Chief economist update: Wall Street can't have its cake and eat it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2021
... American romantic comedy film, "something's gotta give"... and that, Virginia, is the US bond market. The yield on 10-year US Treasury bonds have been on the rise. No need for numbers, the chart below says it all: Yields have been going up and up ...

Chief economist update: The US inflation dilemma

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2021
... money, money, money and expectations of more money, money, money. The bond market's going the other way as the yield on US 10-year Treasuries have been moving on up and is now at par with pre-pandemic levels as inflation expectations - as measured by ...

Chief economist update: Letter V going viral in Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
... meeting, it went a-cutting bringing the official cash rate target down to 0.1% from 0.25%; the target for the yield on the three-year Australian Government bond down to around 0.1%; the interest rate on new drawings under the Term Funding Facility down ...

Manipulative trading at J.P. Morgan costs it over $1bn

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... bank in connection to a related proceeding regarding manipulative trading activity in the secondary cash market for US treasury notes and bonds. Under the resolution, J.P. Morgan Securities will pay $10 million in disgorgement and a $25 million civil ...