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Milestone launches asset allocation tool

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2021
... design leverages common product structures, shared data, and process driven capabilities. Milestone first launched in North America and Europe, Middle East and Africa and has been servicing insurance companies and outsourced chief investment officers ...

Chief economist update: Overvaluation tests FOMO and TINA trades

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2021
Wall Street's down. Repeat, Wall Street's down! The CBOE VIX index - the fear gauge - jumped by 9.5% in the last trading day of the first month of 2021 to 33.09 points, marking the highest since the renewed COVID-19 outbreak in Europe that subsequently ...

You can't hate Trump but love the S&P 500: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2021
... September 2017, Point Bridge Capital launched a Republican-themed ETF with the ticker MAGA (for Trump's 'Make America Great Again' slogan). As of Wednesday, this ETF has only gathered about US$10 million in assets. A Democratic-themed ETF ...

Former UBS GAM executive joins CBA incubator

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
Commonwealth Bank has hired a former UBS Global Asset Management and Financial Services Council executive to chair its fintech incubator business. Ben Heap was appointed non-executive, independent chair of x15ventures, which helps scale startups by ...

International investors eye Aussie market

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
Investors from North America and Europe have said Australia is the investment location of choice in the Asia Pacific region, according to research from Anrev. The annual investment intentions survey found the majority of global institutional investors ...

Chief economist update: Virus now, inflation later

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
... a particular time, firms take into account the rate of overall inflation they expect to prevail in the future". Still, America needs to worry more about the health of its citizens now and inflation later.

Chief economist update: USA Inc is under new management

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
... Joggin' Joe hits the ground running. Not soon after he was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States of America, Joe Biden rolled up his sleeves and went to work. Hours after his inauguration, Biden signed 17 executive orders, memorandums ...

Key finance figures in Biden Cabinet

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
With only a matter of days until US President-elect Joe Biden takes office, there are a number of notable finance industry veterans nominated to help his administration lead the nation. The first, and most notable in the economics world is Janet Yellen ...

First Sentier launches infrastructure fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
First Sentier Investors has launched a new US-listed infrastructure fund that is managed locally. The First Sentier American Listed Infrastructure Fund (FLIAX) aims to achieve income and capital growth by investing in a diversified portfolio of up to ...

Chief economist update: Yuan the victim of China's success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
The Chinese yuan has seen a sharp appreciation, leading major Chinese news outlets to report that the government would be relaxing rules to make it simpler to settle the currency internationally. 'Twas less than one and a half years ago that the ...