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Industry fund welcomes new investment head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... team. Selioutine was most recently a senior consultant with Frontier where he held a number of roles, including head of currency. Prior to Frontier, Selioutine was a quantitative analyst at Antipodean Capital Management and also served as a research ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
Geo-politics remain the talk of the financial markets as Trump's rolling circus again came to the fore with his flip-flop-flip over the US-North Korean summit - just a day after Trump cancelled the summit, he declared it back on again. Make what ...

Chief economist update: Erdogan's Turkey is cooked

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2018
... hike on April 26. The "emergency" move was aimed (like in Argentina) to halt the depreciation of the Turkish lira. The currency has dropped by 22.2% to a record low 4.87 lira/US$1 this year before the central bank's move. The Turkish central bank's ...

Industry fund awards currency mandate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
A $55 billion profit-for-members fund has awarded a $350 million mandate to a global currency manager. Sunsuper awarded the active currency mandate to Record Currency Management, which the fund hopes will generate risk-adjusted returns using the manager's ...

Chief economist update: Crying for Argentina

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
... sharp and rapid depreciation of the Argentine peso and by extension, put downward pressure on inflation. The country's currency has fallen by 13.7% against the US dollar this year to date, on top of its 15.9% depreciation in 2017. Consumer price inflation ...

ASIC tightens grip on ICO issuers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... for cryptocurrency service providers were announced. AUSTRAC's new suite of cryptocurrency laws will regulate digital currency exchange providers when they come into effect mid-May. Meanwhile, the US corporate regulator has been going after ICOs that ...

Chief economist update: A$ falls to the occasion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... many a thing to set the A$'s value...but that's if we're living pre-12 December 1983, the days before the Australian currency was allowed to float and left to the whims of market speculations and fluctuations. "A$ down!" is again making the news as I ...

Chief economist update: Prudence, patience and persistence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... the reduction in asset purchases or the euro's appreciation or exit speculations, recent data indicate that the single currency area's growth momentum is slowing down. This isn't lost on ECB President Mario Draghi. While Draghi offered a sober assessment ...

Sales director moves from Legg Mason

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2018
... Barker, said the responsibilities of Nunan would be focused on portfolio management duties across cash, fixed income, currency and overlay strategies. "The Treasury Services team provides a comprehensive suite of cash, currency and derivative solutions ...

Chief economist update: Can't get enough of war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... report entitled "Macroeconomic and Foreign Exchange Policies of Major Trading Partners of the United States." Yes, the currency war manifesto. "This report, by monitoring where unfair currency practices may be emerging and encouraging policies and reforms ...