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QIC inks $1bn infrastructure deal with CalPERS

MARK SMITH | THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015

... with the California Public Employees' Retirement System (CalPERS), one of the largest public pension funds in the United States. Under the terms of the arrangement, QIC will source, create and manage a portfolio of Asia-Pacific infrastructure assets ...

Instos demanding multi-asset alternative strategies

MARK SMITH | THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015

... Perpetual's total FUA within its responsible entity business compared to less than a quarter at the start of 2014. In the United States flows into alternative strategies have tripled in the past five years and assets under management now total more than ...

Forget Australia, head stateside for property yield

LAURA MILLAN | THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015

Forget about Australia's fast rising real estate sector, the next opportunity in that space could be in the United States, as all eyes turn to the timing of interest rate rises. Australia's love affair with property is "certainly greater than Australia's ...

Don't put all QE in the same basket: AXA

LAURA MILLAN | WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015

The quantitative easing (QE) programs undertaken by the United States, Europe and Japan are essentially different from each other and investors should expect different economic impacts for each one of them. AXA Framlington head of Asia Mark Tinker said ...

Liquidnet to launch first fixed income dark pool

LAURA MILLAN | WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015

Liquidnet will launch its first fixed income trading platform in Europe and the United States in the next couple of months, following the acquisition of Vega-Chi in 2014. The organisation is already starting to build a pool of liquidity that will allow ...

BNP Paribas names new country head

STAFF WRITER | MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015

... different senior banking positions for a number of leading financial institutions in France, the Nordic Region, the United States and the United Kingdom. The latest edition of Financial Standard is out now. Download it for your device here.

Property groups looking through the schooner glass

DARREN SNYDER | FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015

... alcohol consumption was about 5% higher than the OECD average. Members of the OECD include the United Kingdom, the United States, Ireland, Germany, Korea and Japan among 28 other countries. Head of Charter Hall direct property, Richard Stacker, said ...

HSBC pitches low vol strategy to instos

LAURA MILLAN | THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015

... and it will be a good opportunity to buy them again," he said. Most recently, it has reduced its exposure to the United States market and redeployed it to Japan, emerging markets and Europe, where the strategy is still underweight. "Both Japan and Europe ...

Aussie banks overpriced, undercapitalised: Perpetual

LAURA MILLAN | THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015

... for example, is currently trading on a PE of 15 times, which compares to Lloyds' 10.7 times and Wells Fargo in the United States at 13.5 times earnings. "The reason why I wanted to highlight these issues about Australian banks, is because the Australian ...

Age Pension under the spotlight in tonight's budget

LAURA MILLAN | TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015

... to not be affected by changes in the rules." Michayluk noted that other taxation methods used in Canada and the United states do not tax assets contributed to or within retirement pools. Instead, they apply tax when the funds are withdrawn in retirement. ...

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Treasury responds to Debelle's review into the AOFM

KARREN VERGARA

Treasury has responded to the Guy Debelle-led review into the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM), agreeing to all six recommendations.

Bravura ups guidance, reports earnings increase

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

Bravura Solutions informed investors cost discipline will protect its full year earnings result after a client migrated to a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) early in the year.

MaxCap hires from Vanguard, AustralianSuper

MATTHEW WAI

MaxCap has welcomed two senior directors, including a portfolio manager from Australia's largest super fund, reporting to the recently named chief executive Kylie Robb.

Zenith snags mandate from Granite Bay

MATTHEW WAI

Granite Bay Private Wealth has selected Zenith Investment Partners to support their investment governance and due diligence.

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