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Global healing?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2014
... policy. It is being caused by the flight to safety due to headline news in Europe, the South China Sea, the Middle East and Africa. It's the result of quantitative easing. The end of quantitative easing will be a disaster. I think it's weird, but we ...

AMP Capital appoints London-based institutional director

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
... Capital's European institutional client business and she will report to AMP Capital managing director Europe, Middle East and Africa Richard Shields. Campbell will also focus on fundraising for AMP Capital's UCITS (Undertakings for Collective Investment ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... Jones had jumped 73 cents, or 22.88 per cent, to $3.92 by 1200 AEST, after the company agreed to be taken over by South Africa's Woolworths for $2.15 billion. Lonsec senior client adviser Michael Heffernan said several factors had lifted the local bourse ...

AIA launches fitness program available via advisers

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... Incentivising a Healthier Australia national forum. The Vitality program has more than five million members across South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, China and Singapore. The program uses research in behavioural economics to stimulate people ...

Catching the big wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 FEB 2014
... Economist' magazine published on 21 September 2013 that, "Twenty years ago its exports to China were negligible. Today China is Africa's biggest trading partner". And before this, Aljazeera printed on 21 December 2011 that, "Since 2005, China's development ...

Towers Watson names global head of investments

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... holding numerous leadership roles. His most recent role was as head of the investment business in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Tricia Guinn, managing director of risk and Financial Services at Towers Watson, said: "Chris is an extremely talented individual ...

New EM bond rater proposes fresh approach

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 FEB 2014
... that include MARC from Malaysia, the CPR ratings agency from Portugal, SR from Brazil, CARE from India and GCR from South Africa. ARC has a combined 6000 clients. Choo Yee Kwan, country risk officer for OCBC Bank in Malaysia, told the Malaysian StarBiz ...

I swear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... lenders and putting them at greater risk if financial market turmoil in countries such as Turkey, Brazil, India and South Africa intensifies." And who invests in European banks? And what's the emerging market volatility doing to the yen? It's sending ...

Trust in Australian CEOs plummets

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014

Frontier market corporate governance greatly improved

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
... to investors with a higher risk appetite but a perception that the companies operating in less established economies in Africa, the Middle East and South America fall short of the high governance standards of their Western counterparts has hampered large ...