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Dovish Fed, hawkish BOC

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
... have to rise all that much further to get to a neutral policy stance." It was different across the border. The Bank of Canada's (BOC) decision to lift its benchmark rate by 25 bps to 0.75% overnight came as no surprise to financial markets. This was ...

AMP Capital names key real assets hires

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUN 2017
... infrastructure in Europe and Latin America. Before this role, Jones was director, equity research at the Royal Bank of Canada. Oliver Reiff, meanwhile, has been appointed portfolio manager and analyst for AMP Capital's global listed real estate team ...

O Canada

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 APR 2017
... United States account for more than 75% of Canada's total exports and over 66% of its imports. This puts at risk the Bank of Canada's (BOC) optimistic outlook for the economy. Exports account for about 30% of Canada's GDP. In its monetary policy meeting ...

RBC secures custody mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAR 2017
... provider with more than $1.25 billion in funds under management. The investor and treasury services arm of the Royal Bank of Canada was recently appointed as custodian and administrator for Uniting Financial Services. UFS is the treasury and investment ...

IFM appoints new director

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2016
... appointment of a new director to its board. Based in Canada, Carol Gray is also a director at the American Express Bank of Canada and the Infrastructure Ontario and Land Corporation. She was previously president and general manager at Equifax Canada ...

Perpetual retains RBC Investor & Treasury Services

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
Perpetual has retained RBC Investor & Treasury Services as its custodian and administrator. The Royal Bank of Canada subsidiary will continue to provide custody and administration services, as well as unit pricing, fund accounting, tax and foreign exchange ...

BNP Paribas loses custody deal to RBC

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
A $5.5 billion fund manager has ended its custody agreement with BNP Paribas and appointed Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Bangarra Group-owned Bennelong Funds Management has appointed RBC Investor and Treasury Services as its new custodian an administrator ...

Dow Jones Sustainability Indices hails ESG leaders

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... Corp, Telefonica SA and BHP Billiton; the biggest deletions, meanwhile, were Cisco Systems, PepsiCo and the Royal Bank of Canada. The industry that saw the biggest improvements in sustainability was electronic equipment, instruments and components. Interestingly ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... the world's biggest central banks - US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank. The only problem I have is determining if markets have already bottomed or whether there's more in store ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... inflation remains highly uncertain, and unanticipated developments could delay or accelerate this first step". The Bank of Canada's "surprise" move overnight, cutting interest rates by 25 bps to a 6-year low 0.5% also brings us back to early this year. ...