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Stanford Brown adds partner

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
... over eight years. Boustred commenced her career in the audit and corporate finance divisions of Ernst & Young in South Africa before moving to Australia. She joined technology company Dimension Data in a mergers and acquisitions role and eventually moved ...

AMP Capital buys digital infrastructure firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... company's pan-European fibre operator strategy," he said. VX Fiber's network runs from Umea, Sweden, and operates in South Africa and the UK. It has a partnership with local council Grosvenor Estate, near London, to operate a fibre broadband network ...

It's not a bird or a plane; it's a new trading platform

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2020
... their portfolios. Superhero operates under the AFSL of Sanlam Private Wealth, an investment and advisory firm from South Africa. Sanlam services high net-worth clients, family offices, institutional clients and not-for-profits, offering portfolio services ...

Mixed results at Bjelke-Peterson estate sale

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
A Lloyds auction of the estate of controversial former Queensland premier Joh Bjelke-Peterson produced mixed results. One of the big ticket items was a piece of paraphernalia from 1969, when the astronauts who landed on the moon toured the world attending ...

Emerging market debt rebounds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... countries, the outlook appears worse. India's GDP forecast is at -4.5%, Russia's -6.6%, Brazil's -9.1%, Mexico's 10.5% and South Africa's is -8.0%. "These countries, which typically grow at a decent rate, often define the general narrative for emerging ...

Banking crisis more likely in conflicted countries: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2020
... from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). IMF economist Rasmane Ouedrago and senior resident representative in South Africa Montfort Mlachila found that while the economic effects of conflict and political instability have been analysed extensively ...

ESG performing positively: MSCI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... "In the case of the MSCI EM SRI Index, the underweight in the China International market and the overweight in the South Africa market accounted for most of the negative country contribution."

COVID-19 to lead to deglobalisation: Amundi

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... very significant negative effects on the economic outlooks for EM, mostly leading to recessions." Countries like South Africa, Colombia, Hungary or Malaysia are more exposed to economic vulnerability, Amundi said. With the pandemic impacting oil demand ...

The catalysts for a rebound

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... assets in Brazil and Mexico continue to underperform due to their weak COVID-19 policy responses. "In addition to South Africa, assets in Turkey, Russia and Qatar have all remained under stress for a variety of reasons specific to those countries," he ...

Chief economist update: Cash splash

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
... bond purchases and bought a record amount of ETFs... Central banks in Brazil, Taiwan, Indonesia, the Philippines in South Africa all cut rates." And at home: "RBA cut cash rate by 25 bp to 0.25% and announced a government bond buying program to anchor ...