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JPMAM global fixed income CIO exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
J.P. Morgan Asset Management's international chief investment officer of the global fixed income, currency and commodities (GFICC) group has departed after nine years. Nicholas Gartside was the co-manager of multi-sector fixed income products and ...

Frontier Advisors builds investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
... a statement. "We have recently split our former debt and alternatives research team into two groups, namely debt and currency, headed by principal consultant Andrew Kemp, and derivatives and alternatives, headed by principal consultant Michael Sommers. ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... year. "Financial developments". For sure and for certain, the Fed's not blind to what's happening in the equity, currency, commodity and bond markets. The S&P 500 index is down 6.2% this year to date, dragging all others with it - the MSCI developed ...

Chief economist update: Aussie property market drop becoming self-fulfilling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2018
... divorce in three months' time gets closer. Australia's been through even tougher challenges before - the Asian currency crisis in 1997, the dotcom crash in 2000, the US recession in 2001, the global financial crisis in 2008, to name a few. The ...

Insurer awards $80m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... return between 2-4% per year, over the recommended two-year investment period through investments in fixed income and currency markets. It recently created an Aussie dollar share class. H2O Asset Management chief executive Bruno Crastes said: "The share ...

Chief economist update: Is TLTRO III coming?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... year-on-year growth rate in Eurozone GDP growth more clearly pictures the extent of the slowdown. Economic growth in the single-currency region has eased to 1.7% in the year to the September quarter. This is the slowest annual growth rate since the third ...

Inside Bennelong and its UK engine room

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... that about 75% of FTSE companies' revenues are generated overseas. A hard Brexit or no deal would most likely see a currency depreciation meaning revenues generated overseas would become more valuable. However, domestically exposed business such ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... Aggregate Index for instance, a passive manager will try to match the index in terms of exposure to sector, duration, currency exposure and so on. Active managers take bets against the index and try to beat or outperform it. If an index has a 10% allocation ...

Vale Paul Costello

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... helped develop a fully integrated investment platform, a new lifecycle option for default members, an enhanced approach to currency management and an improved retirement option," a Qantas Super statement said. "He also helped drive the forays into timberland ...

Chief economist update: Oil slick

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... cure for rising oil prices is... rising oil prices. This is particularly true for emerging nations which, along with currency depreciation, experienced rising inflation in their respective domestic economies. This has prompted many emerging market central ...