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PBOC does an SNB

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2015
... major currencies. Could it be that the PBOC is just doing a Swiss National Bank (SNB) - when it abandoned its defence of the franc early this year - in anticipation of being drowned by the flood of franc shoppers ahead of the ECB's QE? The PBOC knows ...

BlackRock likes Japan, Europe

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
BlackRock Global Allocation Fund product strategist Matt Estes believes there is a lot to like about Japan and Europe when viewing markets and asset classes across the world. Speaking at a BlackRock event on Thursday, Estes said the fund - which manages ...

JPMAM appoints APAC chief executive

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2015
J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) has appointed the chief executive of Asia Pacific, Global Investment Management (GIM). Michael Falcon was previously head of JPMAM's Asia Pacific funds and he replaces outgoing chief Jed Laskowitz, who will transition ...

Citi launches fintech challenge

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
Citi is launching the Asia-Pacific Mobile Challenge, a competition for fintech developers to build mobile tools for Citi's digital platform. Australian developers will compete with others across the APAC region and will demonstrate their ideas at Citi-hosted ...

BNPP IP launches global fixed income fund

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015
BNP Paribas Investment Partners (BNPP IP) has launched a new single-manager multi-strategy global fixed income fund. The FFTW Absolute Return Fixed Income Trust is provided by BNP-owned Fisher Francis Trees and Watts (FFTW), a global investment management ...

BNP appoints Australia head of asset services

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
BNP Paribas has appointed an executive to the newly-created role of head of asset and fund services (AFS) business line in Australia. Ian Rae will be reporting to BNP head of Australia and New Zealand, David Braga, and globally to head of AFS Operations ...

Euro - another experiment doomed to fail?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
"Talk to the hand"! With these words, Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras spoiled my weekend. Not because I have money on Greece - I haven't got enough to buy a small bottle of booze - but more because Alexis proved wrong my musings that after all is ...

Fedcident waiting to happen?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2015
... from simmer to boil) and way below the 2015 high of 22.39 (when the Swiss National Bank abandoned its defense of the Swiss franc - 15 January). Yup, the SNB brought more fear in the market - not one expected it - than this long-running (now in its fifth ...

SG Hiscock ICE fund added to Asgard

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
SG Hiscock's SGH ICE fund was added to the Asgard platform. SGH ICE typically invests in mid-to-small cap industrial franchise companies listed on the ASX that deliver robust earnings growth. The fund was launched in 2006, has $200 million in funds ...

The Fed is Greek too

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
Now that Grexit worries have been sorted - sort of - and a Graccident averted (yet again), financial markets are likely to look for the next big worry. They don't have to scour far, wide and yonder - it was out-headlined by Greece these past few days ...