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Equity investors will struggle in 2019: Baur

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... workers are being brought into the economy and they compete with the other middle-class workers in the UK, US, Europe and Japan, he said. That competition is going to go away and middle-class wages may indeed be the next bull market, Baur said. Further ...

Tough quarter for world's largest pension fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... The world's largest pension fund lost about $186 billion in the three months to December 31, as equities performed poorly. Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF)'s total assets dipped to $1.9 trillion in the third quarter of FY18 (in Australia ...

Chief economist update: Policy normalisation interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... normalisation to one that would be "patient and flexible". Early last year, both the European Central Bank (ECB) and the Bank of Japan (BOJ) were expected to announce exit policies - both are now expected to keep policy settings on hold. The People's ...

BNP Paribas Securities Services names APAC lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... provides custody and back-office functions, currently employs about 2800 people across Australia, China, Hong Kong, India, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand and Singapore. Benoit will relocate to Paris to take up his new position as head of strategic business ...

UniSuper awards fixed income mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... supra-nationals in the core G7 defined countries − Canada, US (North America), France, Germany, Italy (Europe ex-UK Core), UK and Japan, as well as satellite countries. About two years ago, it signed a five-year lease on an office at 101 Collins Street ...

CCIV consultation opens

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... implementation. The passport would enable Australia to export its management products to participating countries, which include Japan, Korea, New Zealand and Thailand without too much red tape. In June 2018, both houses of Federal Parliament passed the ...

Chief economist update: Crude oil to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... and promises of more monetary and fiscal stimuli - in China; and expectations that the central banks of the Eurozone and Japan would keep their respective monetary policies on ice. The same expectations go for the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) - it ...

Chief economist update: The curse of Japan's consumption tax hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
About this time last year, financial markets were awash with speculation the Bank of Japan (BOJ) would follow the Fed's lead and start implementing a monetary policy exit strategy. Speculations started to gain prominence as early as January 2018 ...

California mandates gender board diversity

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... research Meggin Thwing Eastman says the move is significant for global asset owners. Other investors may follow the lead of Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) and CalPERS that have taken the lead in the area of gender board diversity ...

CFS tops up Morgan Stanley mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
Colonial First State has topped up a Morgan Stanley mandate, as it fine-tunes the fixed interest exposures in its employer super's lifestage options. Morgan Stanley's Total Return Strategy is now managing $134 million for the FirstChoice Employer ...