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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 ...

Australian investment firm opens London office

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017
... fund. Commenting on the firm's two-year anniversary, chief investment officer Jacob Mitchell said the step towards the European market was a significant step towards Antipodes Partners realising its global vision. "The past two years have certainly been ...

Fixed income manager opens Australian office

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
A European fixed income and active management specialist has opened an Australian office. BlueBay Asset Management appointed Ciaran McAssey to head its new Melbourne office. He has worked at the firm for more than five years and is currently head of ...

ECB disengages from currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... against the US dollar so far this year - more than the A$ (up 9.4%), the NZ$ (up 5.4%) and the rupee (5.9%). Yet, the European Central Bank (ECB) and its president Mario Draghi have so far been conspicuous in not voicing out their trepidation over the ...

OneVue appoints fund services COO

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... where he held a variety of roles, and was most recently the head of funds operations. He also served as the head of the European shareholder services based in London before moving to Australia in 2006 to help transform the local asset management business. ...

No follow through

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2017
... headed from 2008-2013, now Bank of England (BOE) governor Mark Carney didn't follow through on the remarks he made at the European Central Bank Forum in Portugal that, "Some removal of monetary stimulus is likely to become necessary if the trade-off ...

Ignition Wealth begins European expansion

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
Ignition Wealth is opening in the Republic of Ireland with a view to expand further into Europe. Ignition Wealth chief executive Mark Fordree said the advice firm recognises a strong correlation between its technology and capabilities and the Irish ...

The Trump risk on global trade

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
... dropping to a record low reading of 290 in February 2016 - lower than the GFC bottom of 764 in December 2008 or that of the European debt crisis' 706 in February 2012 - the BDI climbed to 859 overnight. The one major risk to the continued improvement ...

Dovish Fed, hawkish BOC

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2017
... high of 3.7% in May 2011 to a low of 0.3% in April 2013. Certainly, those were turbulent years in the global economy - European debt crisis among others - but perhaps, more directly related to Canada, the rate hikes in 2010 slowed GDP growth from a peak ...

AMP Capital grows infrastructure team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... investments such as Powerco NZ and Evergen. Elsewhere, Niamh McBreen was appointed as an investment director to AMP Capital's European infrastructure equity asset team. Based in London, she will report to head of asset management for Europe, David Rees. ...