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Brookfield names leadership for asset management business

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2022
Former Bank of England governor Mark Carney will become chair of Brookfield Asset Management when it lists separately in November. Carney will take on the role in addition to his other responsibilities as head of transition investing. He is currently ...

TIP Group launches first UK fund

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2022
... investors, the Sterling Debt Fund aims to generate a target fixed income interest rate return of 7% above the Bank of England's base rate (currently 1.25%). Also, interest distributions will be made quarterly to investors. TIP UK head Malcolm Rutherford ...

Wayne Byres to stand down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2022
... supervision. He previously worked at the Reserve Bank of Australia for more than a decade, including a secondment to the Bank of England. He has been chair since July 2014 and was reappointed to another five-year term in 2019 but has decided to cut that ...

Treasurer announces RBA review

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2022
... independent experts from Australia and overseas have been appointed to conduct the review. The panel members are Bank of England Financial Policy Committee external member Carolyn Wilkins, ANU interim director of the Crawford School of Public Policy ...

Reserve Bank shocks with hawkish 50bp increase

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2022
... rise had on inflation. By contrast, the US Federal Reserve, the European central bank, the Bank of Japan and the Bank of England, all have access to data within weeks of making a decision." Ord added that current indicators pointed toward inflation having ...

Citi names new head of securities services

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2022
Citi Australia has appointed Mark England as the new head of securities services following the retirement of long serving executive Martin Carpenter. England, the current co-head of sales for Citi Securities will relocate from Hong Kong to Australia ...

Deerpath Capital opens local office

ELIZABETH FRY  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2022
... years at Bankers Trust Earlier in his career, he played professional rugby in the UK and Europe - for teams in Scotland, England, Italy, and Wales. Deerpath partner Tas Hasan said that while the credit provider has been active in Australia for many years ...

US, UK hike interest rates

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2022
The US Federal Reserve and the Bank of England have increased interest rates - with the US pulling the trigger on rates for the first time since 2018. Effective from March 17, the US Federal Reserve increased interest rates by 0.25% to 0.40%. The US ...

DIY investors embrace Meta Platforms

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 14 JAN 2022
... dominate eToro's top 10 list of most-held stocks, despite fears over rising inflation and higher interest rates. The Bank of England became the first major central bank last month to raise rates from record lows, while the US Federal Reserve has warned ...

Economic recap: Week to November 5

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2021
... at least 2024. November was different. Bond yields dropped and equity markets rose after the RBA, the Fed and Bank of England (BOE) met. There were lotsa lotsa headlines devoted at dissecting the RBA's November 2 decision to "discontinue the target ...