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Pension funds sue Allianz Global Investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... York's Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Blue Cross Blue Shield Association, have also filed similar lawsuits. Reuters reports that around US$4 billion has been lost from members' savings. Lawyers for ATRS, Bernstein Litowitz Berger & ...

Rapper charged over crypto scandal

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... prohibited from participating in offerings or sales of digital asset securities for at least five years. According to Reuters in Washington, T.I. neither admitted nor denied the SEC's findings. His attorney Henry Mazurek said T.I. regretted getting ...

Chief economist update: Second waving, not drowning

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... freedom to turn its attention on re-growing the economy. Not only that, the Shanghai Composite index rallied by 5.7% after Reuters recent report quoting the state media mouthpiece, the China Securities Journal saying: "In a world reshaped by coronavirus ...

Chief economist update: Japan on the mend but BOJ, Abe not taking any chances

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
... after "having rolled out a combined $2.2 trillion in two stimulus packages to avert a deeper recession", according to Reuters, Japan's former economy minister and the head of the Liberal Democratic Party's (LDP) tax panel, Akira Amari, had recently ...

Frontier Advisors adds to leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... Frontier from his role as head of product APAC for Liquidnet. He previously was director, global partnerships at Thompson Reuters and global head of strategy and product at Bloomberg. Jenkins will be returning to Australia for his new role, after 16 ...

Chief economist update: Easing does it (again)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... could go wrong went wrong. Here are the headlines: Northeast China hit by coronavirus infections, Wuhan reports new case (Reuters) "BEIJING (Reuters) -- Chinese authorities reported on Sunday what could be the beginning of a new wave of coronavirus cases ...

Chief economist update: BOJ expands Enhancement of Monetary Easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... wake of the 2009 financial crisis totaling ¥56 trillion in size, with fiscal spending of ¥15 trillion," according to Reuters. The BOJ's revised GDP and inflation projections explain why both fiscal and monetary are pulling out all the stops. In ...

Global hiring freeze for BlackRock

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAR 2020
... much of that was wiped in the recent market selloff. BlackRock has 16,200 employees across 30 countries. A source told Reuters that the hiring freeze would likely last for a few weeks. A recent National Australia Bank market research note said unemployment ...

Chief economist update: Cash splash

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... to try to prevent the certainty of a global recession from turning into a global depression. According to Factset : "A Reuters poll of 40 economists showed a median 80% chance of recession this year, the highest level on record, up 50bps in the past ...

Chief economist update:China prepares anti-viral injection

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... big fall in China's stock market when it opens today. But the People's Bank of China (PBOC) is on top of this. Reuters reports that China's central bank said it will inject 1.2 trillion yuan ($174 billion) worth of liquidity into the markets ...