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Perpetual retains RBC Investor & Treasury Services

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2016
Perpetual has retained RBC Investor & Treasury Services as its custodian and administrator. The Royal Bank of Canada subsidiary will continue to provide custody and administration services, as well as unit pricing, fund accounting, tax and foreign exchange ...

BNP Paribas loses custody deal to RBC

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
A $5.5 billion fund manager has ended its custody agreement with BNP Paribas and appointed Royal Bank of Canada (RBC). Bangarra Group-owned Bennelong Funds Management has appointed RBC Investor and Treasury Services as its new custodian an administrator ...

Dow Jones Sustainability Indices hails ESG leaders

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... Corp, Telefonica SA and BHP Billiton; the biggest deletions, meanwhile, were Cisco Systems, PepsiCo and the Royal Bank of Canada. The industry that saw the biggest improvements in sustainability was electronic equipment, instruments and components. Interestingly ...

Gloom and doom news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2015
... the world's biggest central banks - US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank. The only problem I have is determining if markets have already bottomed or whether there's more in store ...

Round and round we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... inflation remains highly uncertain, and unanticipated developments could delay or accelerate this first step". The Bank of Canada's "surprise" move overnight, cutting interest rates by 25 bps to a 6-year low 0.5% also brings us back to early this year. ...

Legg Mason appoints custodian

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2015
... Australia has appointed RBC Investor & Treasury Services as its custodian and administrator. Part of the Royal Bank of Canada, RBC Investor & Treasury Services has provided investment administration outsourcing services to fund managers in Australia ...

QIC hires senior infrastructure execs

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... infrastructure investments group. Tucker has three decades of infrastructure experience. He joins from the Royal Bank of Canada in London, where he established the bank's infrastructure franchise, and for more than a decade was its managing director ...

When Harry met Sally syndrome

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2015
... the "If a tree falls in a forest and no one is around to hear it, does it make a sound?" category. Not so for the Bank of Canada when it delivered a 25bps reduction to 0.75%. Nor the Bank of Japan when it announced a one-year extension (to March 2016) ...

Happy Australian dollar Day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... ago. What changed? What changed was that between then and last week, the European Central Bank (ECB) QE'd and the Bank of Canada (BOC) announced a surprise rate cut. Ipso facto, the RBA could (must?) too. Why must our Canadian brethrens have all the ...

Central bank surprises

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 JAN 2015
... lowered inflation expectations, pay and other cost growth in a way that became self-perpetuating." Last night, the Bank of Canada (BOC) came up with its own surprise - it cut its overnight lending rate by 25 bps to 0.75%. Yes, you guessed right, 'twas ...