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BNP Paribas Securities Services wins mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAR 2016
AIA has appointed BNP Paribas Securities Services as its OTC derivatives operations provider. Under the mandate, BNP Paribas will provide trade management, collateral management and trade repository reporting in Hong Kong and Singapore. "We have been ...

China's green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... trade figures suggesting that the slowdown in its economy is not as slowing as fast. (Remember green shoots and second derivatives?) China's exports decline by a mere 1.4% in the year to December - a fantabulous improvement from November's 7.1% drop ...

ASIC bans former Macquarie adviser for market manipulation

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
ASIC has banned a former Macquarie Equities accredited derivatives adviser for market manipulation. Working with a former Credit Suisse employee, Tony Davidof manipulated the price of MINI derivatives via sequential buy and sell trades after both pre-arranging ...

ASIC changes market rules for Chi-X ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 OCT 2015
... industry feedback, including the need "to clarify that advisers already accredited as a level one or level two Accredited Derivatives Adviser under the ASIC Market Integrity Rules (Chi-X) would only be able to give advice to a retail client in relation ...

BetaShares grows distribution team

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
... client portfolios. With over 15 years' experience in financial services, Smyth has extensive experience in equities and derivatives markets. Prior to joining BetaShares, she has held senior equity derivative distribution roles with Commonwealth Bank ...

Managers pressured by more demanding clients

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... respondents plan to expand their offering of fixed income alternative strategies while 57% will increase their use of derivatives to hedge against interest rate risk. Managing risk is a major concern for institutions around the world, with 72% of asset ...

Instreet grows sales team

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... funds. Poon has extensive banking experience, previously having worked at RBS in a product development role for equity derivatives and structured products on listed and unlisted platforms. He also had a similar role at Westpac. Instreet managing director ...

Standard Life adds to multi asset team

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
Standard Life Investments has appointed former BNP Paribas global head of equity and derivatives as investment director for its multi asset investment team. Gerry Fowler will be based in Edinburgh and will join a 57 strong team providing investment ...

VicSuper hires alternative investment specialist

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... BlackRock Aladdin system. Tsiaousis previously worked at Milliman as a financial risk consultant and before that in equity derivatives at the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). "The need to enhance our risk management capability, including more stress ...

Tassie RBF awards GAM $100m mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... Absolute Return Bond Defensive Fund. GAM's unconstrained bond strategy is a "go-anywhere" bond fund which, via the use of derivatives, protects the portfolio and still generates returns during downturns. The strategy is managed by the experienced unconstrained ...