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Economic recap: Week to November 19

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
Not taking a hike "It's not time to make a change Just relax, take it easy..." -Cat Stevens, Father and Son The curse du jour that is rising inflation has raised volatility in the bond and equity markets by virtue of the anticipated central bank ...

Citi launches sustainability-linked supply chain finance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2021
Citi launched its first sustainability-linked supply chain finance program in Asia Pacific, aiming to support clients advance their ESG priorities. The supply chain finance programs provide funding to a client's suppliers from the date of collection ...

CBA takes stake in AI firm

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2021
Commonwealth Bank has taken a minority stake in a Silicon Valley-based artificial intelligence (AI) platform. H2O.ai operates a cloud-based machine learning platform, H2O AI Cloud, and employs some of the world's top data scientists. The partnership ...

Governments must act on net zero: Morningstar

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2021
Asset managers around the world are working hard to turn their investment strategies into measurable emissions reductions, but must be attuned to the risk of net zero washing, new research says. Morningstar's latest report, Asset Managers and Net ...

Netwealth proposes merger with Praemium

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2021
Early this morning Netwealth made an unsolicited bid of $785 million to merge with Praemium, but the latter has rejected the move. Netwealth offered one new share for every 11.96 Praemium shares plus a cash consideration following the net proceeds from ...

QIC appoints healthcare GM

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
QIC has appointed a general manager of healthcare for QIC Global Real Estate. Nicholas Skulander joins from Dexus, reporting to director of GRE strategy, Ryan Murphy. "Nicholas will focus on expanding QIC GRE's capability in healthcare real estate ...

T. Rowe Price to acquire credit manager

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2021
The US$1.61 trillion investment manager is set to take over alternative credit management firm Oak Hill Advisors (OHA). T. Rowe Price will pay US$4.2 billion for 100% of OHA with US$3.3 billion payable at closing, approximately 74% in cash and 26% in ...

Centuria, MAF make joint acquisition

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
Centuria Capital Group and MA Financial Group (MAF) have partnered to acquire an office site in Adelaide. Both groups will take a 50% interest in 25 Grenfell Street in the Adelaide CBD for $83.3 million each. The 24-level office building will be jointly ...

Future Fund hits $199 billion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 OCT 2021
Future Fund's latest portfolio update shows the sovereign wealth fund is just shy of hitting $200 billion. "After the exceptional 22% return in 2020-21, the Future Fund continued to grow in the September 2021 quarter. Delivering a 10-year return of ...

State Street creates head of Australia role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021
Intensifying its commitment to the Asia Pacific region, State Street has appointed a long serving J.P. Morgan executive as its first country head for Australia. Joining in the newly created role from next month is Tim Helyar, currently J.P. Morgan's ...