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CFSGAM sale clears regulatory hurdles

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUL 2019
Commonwealth Bank has received all regulatory approvals to sell its global asset management business to Japanese banking giant. The $4.2 billion sale to Mitsubishi UFJ Trust and Banking Corporation (MUTB) is expected completion is in August, CBA said ...

Legg Mason affiliate appoints executives

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
Global fixed-income manager Western Asset has appointed a head of Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) client service and marketing. Michael Dale has been named head of Asia Pacific (ex-Japan) client service and marketing, and the head of its Singapore office. Formerly ...

Pendal Group appoints international business lead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
Pendal Group announced the appointment of a chief executive for its J O Hambro Capital Management (JOHCM) operations in the UK, Europe and Asia. Alexandra Altinger will head up UK, Europe and Asia operations for JOHCM. Altinger was previously chief ...

Investment bank names new APAC markets head

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... for driving and leading the Asia Pacific markets business which focuses on credit, equities and macro in markets including Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and India. Pecot joined Barclays in 2018 as head of equities, where he was responsible for leading ...

Chief economist update: Don't buy a Big Mac in America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... put nine countries on its "Monitoring List" two months before in its report to congress on May 2019. These include: China, Japan, Korea, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Singapore, Malaysia, and Vietnam. Whether it's because of currency manipulation or what ...

Aussie HNWIs slip down global rankings

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
... ninth place to the 10th spot, overtaken by Italy. The US remains home to the largest HNWI population (5.3m), followed by Japan (3.2m), Germany (1.4m) and China (1.3m). One of the key drivers of the decline was the flight to cash last December, the report ...

World leaders back impact investing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
... spoke about the potential benefits of impact investing. The G7 consists of leaders from Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the UK and the US. The statement from the G7 leaders outlines support for the growth of the impact investing market, which ...

KPMG names life insurance lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... branch of global life reinsurer RGA as managing director, with responsibility for Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Japan. Between 2004 and 2007, she was chief financial officer and appointed actuary at life insurer Asteron, and was a director ...

Chief economist update: BOJ Tankan tanking?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
The G20 meeting in Osaka, Japan has come and gone. Except for the photo-op, the leaders of the G18 could all have stayed at home and nobody would have noticed. The world's attention was all about the US-China trade deal or no deal tete-a-tete. The ...

Beware tech firms in financial services

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2019
... not have a bank. The tech companies with the most complete financial services offerings right now are based in China and Japan. Alibaba (including its subsidiaries Alipay and Tencent), Baidu, Line (including Rakuten) and NTT Docomo all offer not only ...