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Lucky country

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2009
... Taiwanese pensions funds, which posted more than 14 per cent per annum over a year. This growth pushes the Asia Pacific region ahead of Europe for the first time with assets of around $3.5 trillion. "The growth rate of pension assets in [Asia Pacific] ...

Northern Trust appoints Asia CEO

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
Northern Trust has appointed Teresa Parker as chief executive of the Asia Pacific region. Parker replaces Gregg Behrens who retires in November. She has worked at Northern Trust in a number of leadership positions for the past 15 years, most recently ...

Russell property fund goes global

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009
... investment trusts (REITs) and other publicly traded real estate companies located in North America, Europe and the Asia Pacific region. Russell Investments has also extended AEW's mandate from a local to a global strategy. The change is part of the fund's ...

UBS reshuffles wealth management execs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... management Australia for five years. Cacciottolo will report to Graham Francis, chief executive of the firm's Asia Pacific region and work with Matthew Grounds, country head of UBS Australasia. Clark Morgan was appointed chief executive of wealth management ...

AXA opens Singapore uni

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
... establishment of the campus is important to AXA's ambition of becoming the preferred company in the Japan Asia Pacific region. Investing in people development is key to develop a culture of excellence and offer the best service to our clients," said ...

GWA opens Melbourne office

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 24 FEB 2009
... Sutton returns to Australia to manage the Melbourne office after being appointed managing director of the Asia Pacific region. He reports to GWA UK chief executive, David Morris. Sutton previously worked at Goldman Sachs JB Were as a quantitative analyst ...

Cost of share trading spikes

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... what trading strategies to use this year. ITG highlighted that average trading costs varied widely in the Asia Pacific region. India, China and Korea shares were the cheapest places to trade with an average trading cost of around 20bp. In contrast, trading ...

Former State Street head jumps to RBC Dexia

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... weeks. Travers will be based in Sydney and has over 20 years of experience in investor services within the Asia Pacific region. Prior to his head of investment role, he was chief operating officer at State Street. Before that Travers was vice president ...

Northern Trust granted Aussie bank licence

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... government will take Northern Trust to the next level in Australia, a key market for our development plans in the Asia Pacific region and globally," said Gregg Behrens, Northern Trust head of Asia Pacific business. Northern Trust had more than $6 trillion ...

Banks to reprioritise IT spending

THESHEET.COM WITH ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 NOV 2008
... billion in 2008 to US$US11.7 billion in 2009. Last week it revised downwards its ICT spending forecast for the Asia Pacific region, estimating 8.3 per cent growth in 2009 instead of 11 per cent. Several banks have already said they will make sizeable ...