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CBA appoints head of Australian economics

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2025
... various bond markets and yield curves. Lastly, Joseph Capurso will continue as head of international economics and foreign exchange, responsible for developing CBA's forecasts for the major global economies, central bank policy and currencies. "The refresh ...

Former director sentenced over 'test' trading accounts

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2025
... January 2015 and April 2021, McCabe misled the investors by providing them with specific funds and access to foreign exchange trading accounts on a third-party platform. But in reality, investors were provided "test" trading accounts that "were not capable ...

Mercer Super recruits whistleblower as risk chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAY 2025
... Failure, which he penned as a young trader at NAB. During his time with the lender, he blew the whistle on a major foreign exchange trading scandal that saw four of his co-workers on the dealing desk go to prison. Motivated by this experience, he wrote ...

QTC names new chief executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2025
... July. For her part, Buckley joined the manager of the state government's borrowings, cash investments, and foreign exchange in September 2023. Before that, she was a long-serving executive at Queensland Investment Corporation.

ECCM recruits operating chief

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 17 APR 2025
... trends across a portfolio of over 70 diversified and liquid global futures markets, including equity indices, foreign exchange, fixed income and commodities. ECCM aims to deliver returns with low correlation to traditional asset classes. "It's an ...

Regal writes off Opthea, FUM takes 8% hit

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2025
... attributed another $1.1 billion loss to "other" factors that included distributions, dividends, buy-backs and adverse foreign exchange movements from a stronger AUD. Net FUM inflows in the March quarter of $149 million were driven by several factors ...

RBA flags 'policy changes' could derail super

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2025
... commitments and a large, sustained decline in the Australian dollar drained liquidity through payments related to foreign exchange hedges," the RBA said. Despite raising concerns, the RBA said historically the superannuation sector has displayed a high ...

Canada pension fund hires ex-CalPERS CIO

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAR 2025
... investments in groups where CalPERS was also an investor. He landed at CalPERS from China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange, the agency that manages the country's capital account. Further, he served as deputy chief investment officer ...

Tokenisation can save US$135m in back-office costs: Study

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2025
... partnership recently announced by Citi and Fidelity International aims to tokenise money market funds and digital foreign exchange swaps with the help of the Monetary Authority of Singapore and its Project Guardian scheme, a collaboration between policymakers ...

Quant fund hires from JP Morgan

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2025
... trends across a portfolio of over 70 diversified and liquid global futures markets, including equity indices, foreign exchange, fixed income and commodity markets. The fund aims to deliver returns with a low correlation to traditional asset classes. ...