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BlackRock names head of financial institution

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2018
BlackRock appointed a head of financial institutions group to focus on insurance organisations in Asia Pacific. Based in Hong Kong, Kimberly Kim will begin the newly-created post in April. Kim will be responsible for formulating and executing an integrated ...

Chief economist update: Build, build, and build some more

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2018
A number of market moving events and economic releases are scheduled for this week - ones that could either preserve or disrupt the status quo. In America, President Donald Trump will deliver his 'State of the Union' address and the Fed meets for the ...

Chief economist update: Red light on greenback

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
Down, down, the US dollar is down (again). Bloomberg's USD index shows that the US dollar dropped 1.0% overnight - taking its 2018-to-date decline to minus 3.2% -- on the back of US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin's comments At the World Economic ...

Chief economist update: No stealth tapering, no exit strategy...yet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2018
... necessary to "achieve the price stability target of 2 percent" and "stays above target in a stable manner". The Bank of Japan (BOJ) couldn't be clearer on its forward guidance following the conclusion of its first Board meeting for 2018 where it kept ...

Global trading platform opens Sydney office

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2018
Institutional trading platform firm Tourmaline Partners is opening an office in Sydney and will be led by two former Northern Trust executives. James Santo and Neil Hetherington were appointed as managing directors of Tourmaline's Australian operations ...

Citi veteran joins forces with listed equities manager

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JAN 2018
A long-serving Citi employee has become the deputy chief executive of a listed Australian equities investment company as part of the latter's succession plan. Newly-minted Milton Corporation deputy chief Brendan O'Dea joined Citi in 1995 as an internal ...

Mercer increases Japanese footprint via acquisition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2018
... implementation capabilities. Mercer's powerful resources will further empower our ability to deliver quality client solutions across Japan - which remains our highest priority," Kawana said. Mercer said that the demand for new thinking around investment ...

Chief economist update: Bond sell bomb shell

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 JAN 2018
Bill Gross - known as the "king of bonds" - has recently dropped a bombshell, or in this case, a bond sell. The Financial Times reports that: "The Janus Henderson manager said the $2.2bn Global Unconstrained Bond Fund has taken a short position on Treasuries ...

Same old same old from the BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
While the Fed lifted interest rates at its final meet for 2017, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) followed the others - ECB, BOE, SNB - in keeping the status quo this side of the New Year. And like the rest of 'em, it's optimistic over the Japanese economy's ...

Platinum sells $24m Asia stake

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
Platinum Investment Management is selling $24 million worth of shares in its Asia listed investment company, the underlying strategy of which was recently rated as one of the top-performing funds of its ilk by Morningstar. Platinum Asia Investments ...