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Macquarie buys UK investment bank for $4bn

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
... Edinburgh offices as well as a "substantial staff presence in the city." Investors in the bank will include Macquarie European Infrastructure Fund 5, USS, GCP Infrastructure and the UK government. Macquarie Capital's European head Daniel Wong said: "It ...

The prescience of Super Mario

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
Rising momentum in the Eurozone economy have triggered speculations that the European Central Bank (ECB) would not only taper its QE programme soon but also lift interest rates by the first quarter of 2018. The problem with this is that stronger economic ...

ECB nips the bud of rate hike speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAR 2017
The continued sprouting of green shoots in the Eurozone economy has recently triggered speculations that the European Central Bank (ECB) would soon taper its policy accommodation measures soon. While the Governing Council voted to keep monetary policy ...

Two-year road to Brexit begins

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAR 2017
... good on the promise she made in October last year, UK prime minister Theresa May invoked Article 50 of the Treaty of the European Union formally setting in motion the two-year time limit for negotiations that will see the United Kingdom (UK) withdraw ...

Watermark appoints two sector heads

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... Montgomery Watson Harza. Hamish Chalmers, meanwhile, joins Watermark from Och-Ziff Capital Management in London, where was a European financials sector analyst. He was also a senior research analyst at Macquarie. In his new role, he will cover the global ...

Hedge fund star joins Merchant Group line-up

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAR 2017
... welcoming a hedge fund veteran to head up its new corporate advisory business. Justin Klintberg, former portfolio manager at European group Marble Bar Asset Management and founder of pan-Asian hedge fund Kima Capital, has become chief executive of Merchant ...

Labour costs rising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAR 2017
In its 9 March statement, the European Central Bank (ECB) stated that, "A very substantial degree of monetary accommodation is still needed for underlying inflation pressures to build up and support headline inflation in the medium term". However, if ...

Standard Life marks Australian real estate as top performer

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... investment volumes may improve," the report said. SLI is forecasting the UK real estate market to be subdued, while the European market cycle is entering a mature phase that's seen its strongest market returns lapse. In the US, shifting policies will ...

Equitise launches group investment platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
... venture capital firm Reinventure to launch the syndicate platform, which is based on the success of the American and European model AngelList. Investors in Reinventure's group, for example, will be able to co-invest in investment opportunities they have ...

Low-flation at the core

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAR 2017
Low-flation at the core The European Central Bank's (ECB) governing council decided to keep monetary policy steady - refinancing rate at 0%, deposit rate at -0.4%, marginal lending facility at 0.25% -- while at the same time confirming that its asset ...