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BNP Paribas adds to custody team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2020
... international markets, Sam will help deliver a high quality service to our clients and helps them adapt to the latest developments in the custody industry," Banks said. Meares has over 20 years' experience within the securities services industry ...

Legg Mason subsidiary cuts performance fees

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
... renewables and energy infrastructure. "These changes are designed to enhance the granularity of reporting and to reflect developments and expected growth within the infrastructure asset class," RARE head of Australian intermediary sales Steve Williams ...

RBA prepares to scale up bond buying

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2020
... government securities (AGS) is on target, the central bank is prepared to step in to ensure stability. "Given these developments, the bank has not purchased government bonds for some time, with total purchases to date of around $50 billion," RBA governor ...

Challenges abound as super poises for COVID-19 recovery

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... well as its peers, would not be able to invest heavily in unlisted assets, such as infrastructure and commercial developments, thanks to the government's early release scheme. "We will continue to make allocations to the unlisted sector, but our ...

Industry super pours $19.5bn into Australian recovery

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... more than 200,000 jobs, with projects in commercial construction, redevelopments, public infrastructure upgrades and developments to make assets more energy efficient. Infrastructure investments, despite their illiquidity, are "critical to the good performance ...

Chief economist update: Extraordinarily uncertain outlook

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
US Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has painted an optimistic picture of developments in the US economy while at the same time warning of extraordinary uncertainty. "As the economy reopens, incoming data are beginning to reflect a resumption of economic ...

HESTA to go zero carbon

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
... CCTP will underpin investment decision-making across the portfolio and would be informed by ongoing research and developments in investment practice. "We're at the start of this journey, and we acknowledge that there is still a lot of work to be done," ...

Chief economist update: Still the best and better than all the rest

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2020
... Australian Defence Force (ADP) to help deal with the rising rate of infections. Other states are anxiously monitoring developments in Victoria with NSW premier Gladys Berejiklian urging Sydneysiders not to travel to Melbourne "unless they have to" while ...

Global investment manager appoints APAC head

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... real estate transactions and capital partners. Prior to this, he worked at high-end real estate developer Niecon Developments. Ratcliffe, who has led more than 65 institutional transactions worth more than $3.5 billion across all sectors in the region ...

Chief economist update: The power of money (and a cure)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... Bloomberg reports that Trump is preparing funding worth around US$1 trillion for infrastructure projects and 5G wireless developments and rural broadband. Then again, what I consider the game changer of 'em all is recent reports that the world is ...