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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 ...

Volatile like its 2011

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2014
... the world's biggest central banks - US Federal Reserve, European Central Bank, Bank of Japan, Bank of England, Bank of Canada, Swiss National Bank - announced a coordinated action to provide additional liquidity to the financial system. After five years ...

EQT outsources custody business to State Street

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2013
... custody of $8 billion of UBS Global Asset Management's more than $37 billion funds under management (FUM). Royal Bank of Canada's custody arm, RBC Investor and Treasury Services recently confirmed that it will be closing its Melbourne operations and ...

RBC to close Melbourne custody office

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2013
Redundancies are on the cards at Royal Bank of Canada's custody arm, RBC Investor and Treasury Services, after it confirmed it will be closing its Melbourne operations and moving the entire Australian business to its Sydney headquarters. The move is ...

Gunns chairman avoids jail for insider trading

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 23 AUG 2013
... February 2010. Following this release, the Gunns share price fell substantially. Earlier this month former Royal Bank of Canada employee John Kay Jin Khoo was jailed for 14 months and in June 2013 former PwC tax consultant Nicholas Glynatsis was sentenced ...

Former Royal Bank of Canada employee jailed for insider trading

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 9 AUG 2013