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Risk management top concern for sovereign wealth funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
The majority of sovereign wealth funds and central banks globally have said risk management is a major concern, according to a recent survey carried out by State Street Corporation. The 'New Horizons for Official Institutions' report, released today ...

BRICs without BRI

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2014
... India and China. They were all the rage back then, back when they were defying the gravity of the GFC and the European sovereign debt crisis and all the other mini crises in-between over the past few years. They were, to borrow ol' blue eyes lyrics ...

JPM appoints Australian insto head

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... Institutional at BNY Mellon Asset Management Australia. He will report to Rachel Farrell who is the group's head of sovereign and institutional for South East Asia, Australia and New Zealand and is based in Singapore. "We are focused on building our ...

China's art of currency war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
... Moscow annex the area and Russian President Vladimir Putin officially recognized the Crimean region of Ukraine as a sovereign independent state following the "will of the people."" This, notwithstanding Obama's warning that, "If Russia continues to interfere ...

Bottoms up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2014
... over the same period. But despite intermittent scares over the past five years - most notable of which are the European sovereign debt crisis, the prospect of currency wars, the Jasmine Revolution and the tsunami and nuclear meltdown in Japan, and more ...

Crimea makes it domestic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 7 MAR 2014
... to secede? Certainly, they can no longer blame it on the Putin... and they'll even be accused of interfering with a sovereign country's democratic process. The very one the West wants to protect. No one raised an eyebrow when Quebec held referendums ...

Ray King added to Ashington super fund court case

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... funds failed to fulfil this commitment. Now, a partner specialising in investments at Mercer Ray King and his company Sovereign Investment Research Pty Limited have been added to the list of defendants. According to Anderson, the super fund defendants ...

Chinese currency reforms to transform bond benchmarks

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
... arrangement with the People's Bank of China, and that it intends to invest 5% of its foreign exchange reserves in Chinese sovereign bonds. "China's government bond market is the third-largest in the world and last year the renminbi overtook the euro ...

Punishing Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
Go ahead punks, make my day! Did Russian President Vladimir Putin just give the G7 a two-handed one finger salute? This is if latest reports are true that Russia has given Ukraine's military forces in Crimea to surrender or face an all out assault ...

Zenith recommends AllianceBernstein Global High Income Fund

STAFF REPORTER  |  TUESDAY, 25 FEB 2014
... said. The fund invests predominantly in sub-investment grade (high-yield) corporate debt as well as emerging market sovereign and corporate debt. Zenith noted in its rating report that the fund also has a relatively wide mandate and invests in high-yielding ...