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'tis the season to not be jolly

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2017
... celebrate Thanksgiving Day - there won't be anything to give thanks for when it comes around next week. While we're at it, Santa Claus may not be coming to town either. I'm not in a "Grinchy" mood today, it's just the feeling I got after the Australian ...

Alternatives manager makes senior Australian hire

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
A global alternatives investment manager is welcoming a senior appointment to its Sydney office, bringing an industry expert back to his home market. Joining as a member at KKR from early 2018 will be David Lang. He joins from Pamplona Capital Management ...

A$ drop brings good cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 DEC 2016
So this is Christmas and what have you done (John Lennon)? No, it wasn't me, it was Donald! Thanks to the good tidings Santa Trump delivered (or talked of delivering) - infrastructure building and rebuilding, deregulation, tax reform. Ones that are ...

Dimensional hires BNP super boss

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 NOV 2016
... business this year, with the firm opening a new Melbourne office in February - this adds to its existing offices in Austin, Santa Monica, Charlotte, Vancouver, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. Globally, Dimensional operates ...

Christmas in September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
... jolly old saint Nicolas, decking the financial market halls with boughs of holly (fa la la...) on the 21st of September. Santa Kuroda delivered the initial cheer with its announcement of a "New Framework for Strengthening Monetary Easing: "Quantitative ...

Dimensional expands with new Melbourne office

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
... makes sense for us to continue to expand our presence here." The move adds to Dimensional's existing offices in Austin, Santa Monica, Charlotte, Vancouver, Toronto, London, Amsterdam, Berlin, Singapore, Tokyo and Sydney. A city of more than four million ...

IFM Investors sell Pacific Hydro to SPIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Global fund manager IFM Investors has sold Australian clean energy company Pacific Hydro to the Chinese-based State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC). IFM Investors was not surprised by the level of buyer interest in the business which runs 19 wind ...

ASX jumps "despite" naughty news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2015
Ho ho ho! Santa's in town. That's the feeling one gets when one looks at the Australian equity markets' performance on the first trading day of that merriest month of the year. The S&P/ASX 200 index started the day strong and finished stronger - up ...

Hotel California

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2015
... spot index climbed by 2.5% last week with the euro dropping by 3.1% between 16 October and 23 October to US$1.1010 (when Santa Mario came to town). Still, Draghi insists that the exchange rate is "important for price stability, for growth, but it's not ...

Santa Mario brings cheers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... The super one also reiterated his pledge to use "all tools" at his disposal to lift growth and inflation. So what could Santa Mario's bag of goodies contain? a) a further reduction in its deposit rate (currently at minus 0.20%). b) a further reduction ...