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Frontier Advisors adds to leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... strategy and product at Bloomberg. Jenkins will be returning to Australia for his new role, after 16 years abroad in London, Hong Kong and New York. Frontier Advisors chief executive Andrew Polson commented on Jenkins' appointment, saying that it should ...

Global dividends to fall 15%: Janus Henderson

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2020
... of $275.4bn, equivalent to underlying growth of 4.3%. The US and Canada each saw all-time quarterly records, while Japan, Hong Kong, and Russia broke Q1 records. The index of global payouts rose to a record 196.3. To assess the impact of the pandemic ...

Law firm bolsters financial services team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... on corporate governance, and has also helped clients in relation to various individual accountability regimes, including Hong Kong's manager-in-charge regime, Singapore's senior manager liability, and Australia's BEAR regime. In addition to her legal ...

Pinnacle boutique launches Cayman fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... means when markets turn violent, we aim to be the bright spot in our investor's portfolios. Adams previously worked in Hong Kong as portfolio manager for Brevan Howard, and as a managing director at Morgan Stanley Australia. Pinnacle announced the ...

Chinese tech giant buys 5% stake in Afterpay

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... Tencent is an online entertainment, digital advertising, social media, fintech and cloud services provider listed on the Hong Kong stock exchange. Its communications platforms include Weixin, WeChat and QQ. It also has a digital payments service, Weixin ...

Aussie funds bleed $4bn in March

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... Calstone head of Australia and New Zealand Ross Fox said. Australian behaviour was largely in line with international markets: Hong Kong investors redeemed net $2.7 billion from funds while UK investors pulled out about $7.3 billion. "Flows were mostly ...

Australian fund regulation below average: Morningstar

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... continued to receive a below average grade for regulation and taxation in our study." Of the 26 markets, only Singapore and Hong Kong do not tax fund investors at all, Morningstar said. "Many markets exempt fund investors from capital gains while they ...

How wealth management must respond to COVID-19

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... margins of 37 basis points and three basis points, respectively, suggested through a survey of 21 private banks active in Hong Kong and Singapore," McKinsey said. "This indicates a need for scale which may become more prominent in these challenging times." ...

Man Group hires from BlackRock

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... global emerging market fundamental equities at BlackRock. He's had an almost decade-long career at BlackRock, joining its Hong Kong team in 2011. Prior to that, Swan spent 17 years at J.P. Morgan in equity portfolio management and research roles. "We ...

BlackRock lead portfolio manager departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... manager for many Asian equities strategies has left for a role at a local boutique manager. Andrew Swan, who was based in Hong Kong, joined BlackRock in 2011 and was most recently the head of BlackRock's Asia and global emerging markets fundamental equities. ...