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Schroders director jumps to Robeco

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2020
... worked at Mercer as an actuarial consultant. In her new role as a director, client portfolio management, quant strategies APAC at Robeco, Cheng will be based in Hong Kong and focus on Robeco's distribution teams in Asia Pacific in offering its quant ...

BNP Paribas appoints APAC custody lead

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
BNP Paribas Securities Services has named a new head for its APAC business, as it looks to further expand in the region. Franck Dubois has been appointed as head of Asia Pacific for BNP Paribas Securities Services, commencing September 1 and based in ...

Global investment manager appoints APAC head

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
A $476 billion global investment manager has nabbed a former Challenger executive director to lead its real estate business down under. John Ratcliffe has been appointed as head of Asia Pacific real estate at US$327 billion real estate investment manager ...

Asset managers leverage tech, outsourcing for growth

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... outsourcing to help them optimise idea generation, market research, portfolio construction and technology, Northern Trust APAC head of global fund services Caroline Higgins said. "Our clients' thought processes have been shifting," she said. "They are ...

CMC Markets introduces derivatives platform

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... to trade open and closing auctions, US pre- and post-market and algorithmic orders. Head of institutional at CMC Markets APAC Andrew Wood said: "We are hearing from our institutional and professional partners that their clients' expectations are evolving ...

Magellan to use BasisCode for trading compliance

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... president Carlos Guillen said. "A totally integrated workflow system is a must-have for firms like Magellan and others in the APAC region who serve an expanding geographic client base." ? ? ? ?

Fund managers adapt to market pain

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... underperform benchmark during these periods," S&P Dow Jones Indices global research and design managing director and head of APAC Priscilla Luk said. About 88% of the Australian bond funds lagged benchmarks in March, growing worse from January to quarter ...

Frontier Advisors adds to leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... the role of head technology and operations at Frontier Advisors. Jenkins joins 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 ...

Northern Trust touts new ESG tool to instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... accounting or by requesting portfolio compositions from external fund managers using PEEK-THRU. "Pressure came from the EU and APAC, where they are more focused on ESG. US is just starting to think about it," he said. "Almost every superannuation client ...

A decade in the dust

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2020
... advanced economies and emerging market and developing economies are in recession." Despite this, BlackRock iShares head of APAC investment strategy, ETF and index investing Thomas Taw said investment inflows into China had soared. "Following the initial ...