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Australia lagging on robo-advice

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... Trends latest Robo-advice Report, which surveyed around 20,000 online investors in the US, UK, Germany, France, Singapore, Hong Kong and Australia to find that not only is Australia struggling with adapting, it is being left behind by the US. Investment ...

EM winners, losers emerge in COVID-19 struggle

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... China covered it up," Cirami said. "A geopolitical fissure began to emerge in reaction to China's new law that supersedes the Hong Kong constitution and threatens the end of 'one country, two systems'." These tensions, as well as various EM's response ...

BNP Paribas appoints APAC custody lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... Dubois has been appointed as head of Asia Pacific for BNP Paribas Securities Services, commencing September 1 and based in Hong Kong. He will replace Mostapha Tahiri who took on the role in February 2019. A spokesperson for BNP Paribas said Tahiri is ...

Melbourne boutique partners with Swiss bank

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... bank's private and institutional clients. UBP is currently growing its presence in Asia Pacific, with offices in place Hong Kong, Shanghai, Taipei and Tokyo. It recently opened an Australian onshore branch, via the Hong Kong subsidiary, to support ...

Pessimism strikes Australia, US optimistic

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... 2008, when the S&P plunged 37% and the MSCI posted a loss of 40.33%. Australian financial professionals, as well as those in Hong Kong, Italy and Germany, are notably pessimistic about stock performance in their own market, projecting double digit losses ...

Pendal bolsters ESG fixed income capability

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... assistant portfolio manager after six years at Pendal. He will be joined by Uniting Ethical Investors portfolio manager Anna Hong, who links with the firm after previous stints at BlackRock and Challenger. Hong will be assigned to the Australian Composite ...

QIC appoints executive director

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... executive committee. In his most recent role, he was BMO Global Asset Management's Asia Pacific managing director based in Hong Kong. Last year, he was also appointed the chief executive of LGM Investments, an emerging and frontier markets boutique under ...

Hong Kong financial hub status at risk

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2020
US Secretary of State, Mike Pompeo, has issued a stern warning to Beijing, threatening the status of Hong Kong as one of the world's biggest financial hubs. In response to the Hong Kong protests, Pompeo said Hong Kong is no long autonomous from mainland ...

Outsourced trading set to boom

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... internationally, you have to think about skill set, and whether it's prudent to set up an office in London, New York, and Hong Kong for example, just to execute those positions." Those are just some of the considerations that both merging super funds ...

Chief economist update: Hong Kong is ours

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... sent the economy plunging 6.8% in the year to the March 2020 quarter... but it also halted the series of ongoing protests in Hong Kong that began in June last year. With the spread of the coronavirus under control, and economic indicators - industrial ...