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Nomura appoints Australian president

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... appointment among the firm's international operations. Yamasaki's appointment comes with about 15 other appointments outside of Japan. Yamasaki will join Nomura's Australian arm on April 1. He was previously Nomura's Netherlands president, a role he ...

Fidante forms partnership with $500m firm

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
... to the attention of institutional investors in the UK and Europe, in addition to other key markets such as Australia and Japan. We believe we have found in Latigo a very positive business culture fit with the Fidante team," she said. "We admire Latigo's ...

Chief economist update: Hostage to speculations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAR 2018
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) faces an uphill battle in its quest to normalise monetary policy if economic and financial market agents continue to "hear what they want to hear and see what they want to see." The yen rose to its highest level since November ...

Macquarie IM acquires equities specialist

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2018
Macquarie Investment Management is increasing its investment capabilities via the acquisition of a $6 billion specialist asset manager based in Luxembourg. The investment management division of Macquarie Group has entered an agreement to acquire ValueInvest ...

Centuria flags acquisition strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
... another Australian property investment manager. ESR, a logistics real estate investment firm which has offices in China, Japan and Singapore, has holdings in both the ASX-listed companies. Centuria proposed to acquire Propertylink in September 2017 ...

Macrovue bets on 5G technology

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... executive Rod Bristow told Financial Standard. The "vue" or theme has eight 5G stocks in the US and one each in Sweden and Japan. Their top pick? The US$95 billion mobile technology company, Qualcomm. The fund returned 6.81% in less than three months ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
A global institution is placing $225 million with Aviva Investors to be the asset manager's cornerstone investor for its latest fund launch in Australia. Last month Aviva Investors chief executive Euan Munro revealed the firm, via its new mandate win ...

Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... influx of economic data and surveys are set for release this week. The central banks of Australia, Canada, the Eurozone and Japan are also scheduled to meet. Don't bother with any of them. Whatever the indicators indicate and the central banks decide ...

Senior RBA figure joins life insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
The chief information officer at the Reserve Bank of Australia will join MLC Life in a newly created executive role. Sarv Girn will join MLC Life's leadership team in the new position of chief innovation and transformation officer. Girn will lead the ...

Stellar growth for industry funds: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... trillion assets at the end of 2017. The US held the largest pool of assets (US$25.4tn), followed by the UK (US$3.11tn) and Japan (US$3.1tn). Australia sat in fourth place with US$1.92 trillion or $2.44 trillion - assets which surpass the nation's gross ...