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Most investors shun credit ratings: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... ensure more transparency and competitiveness. The 2010 Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), created in 2011, aim to hold agencies accountable and protect investors, CFR said. ...

Aussie equities boutique appoints portfolio manager from Schroders

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... new portfolio manager. Sam Twidale joins DNR Capital from Schroders in London, where he was a fund manager focused on European equities. Before that, he was an equity research analyst at Citi and a senior consultant with PwC. In his new role, Twidale ...

Chief economist update: Three minutes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2018
... think we are and where they plan to take us. The minutes of the meetings of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), the European Central Bank (ECB) and the US Federal Reserve (Fed) were released last week. Despite their economies operating at different ...

Challenger flags new Fidante partnership, record profit

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
In its 2018 first-half results, Challenger highlighted a new European boutique partnership for subsidiary Fidante Partners along with record normalised profit. Challenger explained that Fidante Europe has formed a partnership with US-based specialist ...

J.P. Morgan veteran joins Plato IM

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... reports to managing director Don Hamson. He previously held multiple roles at J.P. Morgan Asset Management, including European strategic value portfolio manager and fund manager for the Europe Equity Plus and Europe Equity Absolute Alpha strategies. ...

Former QIC director joins FIIG

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... 25 years of experience in the financial markets involved working in a variety of directorial roles, namely as head of European swaps trading at RBC Capital Markets, head of AUD swaps trading at Citi, portfolio manager at Kapstream Capital and chief dealer ...

Industry fund appoints Whitehelm as investment consultant

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2018
... shares in Vopak Terminal Eemshaven - a joint venture between Vopak, an independent tank storage company, and the NIBC European Infrastructure Fund I C.V. Vopak retained a 10% of shares. It marked Whitehelm's third recent investment in mid-market energy ...

Chief economist update: Euro's uptrend is a downtrend risk

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... policy, not a few anticipated ECB president Mario Draghi to deliver a less dovish message (at the very least) after the European Central Bank's first governing council meeting for 2018. Perhaps, the underlying reason for investors' increased appetite ...

Institutional investors on the march in fixed income

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... and real estate debt. This said, APAC instos still have lower allocations to alternative credit than North American or European peers. The study said the increase in alternative credit investment comes down to generating alpha and improving diversification ...

VanEck rejigs Australian leadership for APAC expansion

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... global expansion." Reflecting this, last week VanEck acquired Amsterdam-based Think ETFs to accelerate the growth of the European ETF business. Looking ahead, Neiron said he expects another record year for ETFs, with greater flows into ETFs and away ...