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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 ...

Chief economist update: No pandemic on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 JAN 2021
Pandemic? What pandemic? The S&P500 index the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed 2020 at record highs despite the US topping the list of countries with most total cases of coronavirus infections (21.3 million or roughly 25% of the world's total) ...

Lonsec increases allocation to Talaria

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 21 DEC 2020
... beyond. We're delighted to continue to strengthen our relationship with Lonsec." This year, Talaria hired a former Bank of America executive to help expand its global equities offering. Rhys Cahill joined Talaria on November 16 as general manager of ...

QIC hires investment director

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
The $54 billion fund manager has hired from Cambridge Associates to add an investment director to its global private capital team. Inigo Garcia Gordobil will be based in QIC's San Francisco office and focus on the North American market including ...

New chief executive at Fitzpatricks Group

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... Trust Company, which was acquired by Perpetual in December 2013, and has held key strategy roles with AMP and Bank of America Merrill Lynch. The firm said her focus will be on growth via partnerships in wealth industry and in attracting more women advisers ...

360 Capital raises bid for Evans Dixon

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2020
Tony Pitt's 360 Capital is back with a 13% higher offer for Evans and Partners shareholders, after its October 27 bid was rejected. 360 Capital is now offering the remaining shareholders of EPI 69 cents per share, split as 30 cents per EP1 share and ...

Chief economist update: Confidence unlocks Australia's virtuous cycle

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2020
... turned into political statements, most of us intelligently followed. The proof of the pudding is in the eating. While America presently battles record number of infections and deaths that's taking a toll on their health system, Australia now has ...

LaSalle appoints new APAC chief

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2020
... executive has been appointed in LaSalle Japan chief executive Keith Fujii. Fujii has previously held roles with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Grove International Partners and Shinsei Bank. Meanwhile, head of Greater China Claire Tang and head of Japan ...

Chief economist update: Greed is good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2020
... FOMO (fear of missing out) are used to rationalise the rise and rise on the "Street" despite the coronavirus fast making America the sickest man of the world. Worldometers.info data show that the US remain in pole position to date. It accounts for 22% ...

Data letting ESG down: BlackRock

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
Despite the growing emphasis on sustainability and the mainstream nature of ESG considerations, investors are still struggling to find adequate data to inform their decisions. This is according to BlackRock's 2020 Global Sustainable Investing Survey ...