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ECB exit: 2018 or 2021?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... financial conditions amid diminished political risk and policy uncertainty". This is based on the IMF's assumption that the "European Central Bank should wait for concrete evidence of a steady pickup in inflation before reducing the extent of accommodation". ...

Whitehelm acquires Netherlands asset for pension funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... the shares in Vopak Terminal Eemshaven - a joint venture between Vopak, an independent tank storage company, and NIBC European Infrastructure Fund I C.V. Vopak will retain 10% of the shares. Whitehelm Capital chief investment officer Graham Matthews ...

Factor-based investment demand strengthens: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... income, but just one-third (32%) are using factor strategies within their fixed income portfolios. North American (52%) and European (47%) investors are eyeing multi-asset and multi-factor products as preferred structures for factor products. Invesco ...

Cromwell withdraws REIT prospectus

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
... significant interest from institutional and retail investors, the firm has elected not to register the prospectus for its European real estate investment trust. Cromwell said that it will consult with key stakeholders and strategic partners and will ...

European $1bn asset manager enters Australia

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
A European manager with more than $1 billion in assets has received a mandate to invest in the Australian market. Avignon Capital's key markets are property in the UK, Germany, the Netherlands and Spain; assets include retail real estate, hotels, offices ...

Multi-asset strategy enters Aussie retail market

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 21 SEP 2017
... performance is actually earnings growth, in other words price to earnings ratios have come down. That's the case for three European markets and also for Japan. Some of the commentary on equity markets being stretched and expensive, in our view, is off ...

Euro strength is a source of weakness

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2017
It didn't happen overnight, but it did happen. European Central Bank president Mario Draghi's concern over the impact of the euro currency's appreciation, that is. Recall that the ECB had been conspicuous in its silence about the euro since its 20 July ...

MainstreamBPO given green light for offshore acquisition

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... transaction, MainstreamBPO acquired Fundaministration Inc in New York, Galileo Fund Services in the UK and the former European hedge fund business of Alter Domus. The group also boosted net profit by 38% to $1.4 million and declared a fully franked final ...

Ignition Wealth expands leadership team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2017
... Wivell-Plater and Peter Oakes who are all members of the Ignition Wealth Advisory Board. Ignition Wealth started it's European expansion last month with a new office in the Republic of Ireland, hoping to capitalise on what Fordree sees as a strong correlation ...

Government opens doors to offshore investment vehicles

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017
... exposure draft put it, "advance the more general objective of global regulatory alignment." Comparing the CCIV to the European Union's Undertakings for Collective Investment In Transferable Securities (UCITS) directive, the draft legislation said: "CCIVs ...