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Future Fund alternatives head joins Hedge Fund Standards Board

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 27 FEB 2015
... industry and now has a growing membership internationally in both Asia and North America. Hedge fund managers in the US and Canada now account for 40% of the HFSB's 123 signatories. Assets under management of all HFSB signatories total more than $700 ...

Currency warriors, mount horses and draw swords

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2015
... "surprises" - monetary policy easing by the central banks of Australia, India, Singapore, China, Peru, Turkey, Russia and Canada; QE by the ECB; more (or longer) QE by the BOJ; and the RBNZ's policy hawk to dove reversal. Financial markets expect more ...

When Harry met Sally syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... the "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" category. Not so for the Bank of Canada when it delivered a 25bps reduction to 0.75%. Nor the Bank of Japan when it announced a one-year extension (to March 2016) ...

Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... ago. What changed? What changed was that between then and last week, the European Central Bank (ECB) QE'd and the Bank of Canada (BOC) announced a surprise rate cut. Ipso facto, the RBA could (must?) too. Why must our Canadian brethrens have all the ...

Central bank surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... lowered inflation expectations, pay and other cost growth in a way that became self-perpetuating." Last night, the Bank of Canada (BOC) came up with its own surprise - it cut its overnight lending rate by 25 bps to 0.75%. Yes, you guessed right, 'twas ...

Global dividends reach record high

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... The US, Europe, Emerging Markets and Asia Pacific all achieved impressive double digit dividend increases, while the UK, Canada and Japan lagged behind. The Henderson Global Dividend Index ended the quarter at 159.9, 10.0% higher than 12 months ago. ...

Chi-X Australia makes senior appointment

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... where he is responsible for developing trading solutions. In addition, Chris Lampropoulos, who previously worked for Chi-X Canada, has joined Chi-X Australia and is responsible for the development of the market data business. "We are excited to welcome ...

Global deflation - the next worry?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
The details are still sketchy as I type but the shootings at Canada's Parliament in Ottawa may just have been the reason dip-buyers were waiting for to cash in the gains they bought during the previous week's bigger than usual dips. Not because of oil ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... the world's biggest central banks - US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank - announced a coordinated action to provide additional liquidity to the financial system. After five years ...

PROFILE: UniSuper CEO Kevin O'Sullivan

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... commerce and actuarial science at the University of Toronto. His first job was as an actuary at life insurance company Canada Life. It was there that his lifelong association with pensions began. But in 1990, eight years into his time at the company ...