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Chief economist update: Fed acts with inaction

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... will continue to increase its holdings of Treasury securities by at least $80 billion per month and of agency mortgage-backed securities by at least $40 billion per month until substantial further progress has been made toward the Committee's maximum ...

Link takeover heats up

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
... spot trades. Fortlake's strategies target fixed income instruments, including domestic bonds, OTC securities and asset-backed securities. Fortlake founder and chief investment officer Christian Baylis said: "We chose Eze Investment Suite because ...

Chief economist update: David Australia versus Goliath China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... around 5% next year and 4% over 2022," the RBA said. The Australian central bank's optimism was almost immediately backed up by the 'OECD Economic Outlook, December 2020' report released on the same day that upgraded the country's growth ...

Former Class Super chief joins regtech board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
... director John van Der Wielen resigns to chair the Western Australia Health Research and Innovation Fund (FHRI), which is backed by the state's $1.4 billion sovereign wealth fund. Ray was the chief executive of Class Super, which sells SMSF administration ...

Trading platform partners with Sharesight

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
... live ASX pricing and settle via individual HIN and individual Macquarie Bank cash management accounts. Marketech Focus is backed by OpenMarkets, which provides the share-trading functionality. Managing director Travis Clark said active traders looking ...

Morningstar adds ESG to analysis

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... in the investment process from screening to selection, construction and risk management. In addition, the fund must be backed by an asset manager that has at least an 'advanced' ESG Commitment rating. Asset managers that are evaluated as leaders are ...

Barrenjoey Capital hires from FIIG

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
The newly-launched, Magellan-backed investment bank has added a head of credit risk from FIIG Securities. Asmita Kulkarni left the role of director, investment strategy group at FIIG to join the new venture established by former Challenger managing ...

Channel Capital in management buyout

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
... didn't want to do, we wanted to stay independent and employee owned. The access to capital is greater with Kudu [which is backed by NYSE-listed White Mountains Insurance Group] than with Highbury as we keep growing." Holding identified three areas ...

Ares readies second credit fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... invest in private and public credit assets, and mainly directly originated loans, syndicated loans, corporate bonds, asset-backed securities, commercial real estate loans and other types of credit instruments. It has daily applications and quarterly ...

Former Socceroo joins Crescent Foundation board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2020
The non-profit organisation backed by Islamic superannuation fund Crescent Wealth has appointed a former Socceroo player to its board. Craig Foster played for the Socceroos for four years and was chief football analyst at SBS for 18 years. In addition ...