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ESG funds crowned winners of COVID-19 crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2020
Australasian sustainable funds attracted inflows worth more than $207 million in the second quarter of 2020, with Australian Ethical and Dimensional reaping the majority of these rewards. Morningstar's latest Global Sustainable Fund Flows report, which ...

Franklin Templeton announces revised APAC team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... Mason Investments (Taiwan). For India, Sanjay Sapre will continue in his role as president of Franklin Templeton (India). In Japan, Suguru Kuwahata, current president of Legg Mason (Japan) and Tatsuta Ogichi, current president of Franklin Templeton Japan ...

Chief economist update: Second wave comes to Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... second bite from the coronavirus. Australia is currently in the midst of it. Now the second wave looks like it's come to Japan. According to Kyodo News: "Japan reported on Thursday [July 23] more than 980 new daily coronavirus infections, marking ...

Former CFSGAM chief joins Yarra Capital board

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2020
... bank MUFG in 2019. Prior to that Lazberger spent 17 years with State Street in a range of senior positions in Australia, Japan, Hong Kong and the UK. Before his resignation in 2008 to join CFS, Lazberger led State Street Global Advisors' International ...

GMO acquires Japanese equity manager

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
Global investment firm GMO has acquired a Japanese investment advisory firm and nabbed two senior executives from PGIM's quantitative investment manager QMA. GMO has acquired Usonian Investments, a value-orientated Japanese equity manager. "Usonian ...

Chief economist update: BOJ takes breather on stimulus sprint

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2020
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) took a breather in July, keeping its monetary policy settings and asset purchases unchanged, promising that: "For the time being, the Bank will closely monitor the impact of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) and will not hesitate ...

Pension fund suffers $235bn loss

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
The world's largest pension fund posted a record quarterly loss and a negative return of more than 10% to March end, it has reported. Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund lost 17.71 trillion yen, or $237 billion, in the three months to ...

Mirae drops fees on Asian equities funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
... fund invests in Asian stocks that are expected to benefit from growing consumption activities of the Asian region excluding Japan. It has returned 18.9% in the year ending May, beating the benchmark MSCI AC Asia ex Japan (in AUD) 3.4% over the period. ...

Schroders director jumps to Robeco

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... is moving into the role of Robeco's head of insurance strategy for APAC. Robeco's head of institutional business Asia ex Japan Graham Elliot said: "I am delighted to welcome Brian, Denis and Rupeng to the regional team." "We have seen a continuous growth ...

Investors turn to China-focused strategies

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... he said. "More investors are beginning to take a strategic approach, as one might traditionally do with markets such as Japan, Europe and the US." Similarly, VanEck head of investments Russel Chesler explained that although China was on track to becoming ...