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Instos turning to indexing strats for alternatives

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 APR 2013
... to the increased interest in alternative indexes," said John Krieg, managing director of asset management, Europe, Middle East and Africa for Northern Trust. The investment manager's managing director of global index equity, Chad Rakvin, added: "Alternative ...

Australian Islamic finance presents opportunities

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
Less than one per cent of investment products in Australia are Shariah compliant, suggesting huge opportunities for fund managers blazing the trail in this segment. The Muslim Community Co-operative Australia manages a Shariah compliant property income ...

Zurich appoints chief underwriting officer

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
... Hong Kong-based Philip Anderson, currently Zurich's head of protection business development for Asia Pacific and the Middle East (APME), returns to Australia to take on the new role. Prior to relocating to HK in 2004, Anderson also worked as a chief ...

Market Wrap PM

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2013
... institutional and international banking Alex Thursby will leave the bank at the end of April to become chief executive of a Middle East bank. ANZ fell two cents to $28.80. The three other big retail banks were also higher - CBA rose 49.5 cents to $69.445 ...

No Grexit, no Cyprexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
... loose change. It would be so easy for the Eurozone to cut off the tiny island - geographically it's closer to the Middle East, central Asia and even Africa (I just had a look this morning on Google Maps) - but it has now replaced Greece as the weakest ...

GFG Group partners with Attra to boost payment service

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... high-quality but more affordable payment solutions is growing. Southeast Asia (including Myanmar and Vietnam), the Middle East and Africa have already been singled out as target markets.

Fed Investors Inc hires new Asia Pac CEO

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... lead efforts to identify opportunities throughout Asia, primarily in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong, plus the Middle East

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... in automatic tax hikes and spending cuts tip the world's biggest economy into recession. Heightened tensions in the Middle East undermined sentiment further, traders said. At the close of trading on Friday, London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies ...

Two ANZ appointments for merged Asia/Pac business

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2012
... bank AmBank in Malaysia and spent over 30 years with Standard Chartered Bank in senior executive roles covering the Middle East, North America, Africa, Thailand, Sri Lanka and Singapore. PlantA(C) and Mohan's new roles are effective 1 November 2012.

Emerging market PE numbers on track

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2012
... year's figures. While the amount of deals done in China decreased, this was offset elsewhere, in greater Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Russia and Brazil. Latin America is just one of many markets, but conditions on the ground mimic those across much ...