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Sukuk demand to reach US$900bn in five years

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
Global demand for Sukuk is forecast to triple from US$300 billion to US$900 billion by 2017, according to recently released estimates from Ernst & Young. Conventional institutions are increasingly demanding Shari'a compliant securities alongside Islamic ...

State Street wins QSuper mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAR 2012
... approximately AU$80bn of Australian superannuation dollars," said Ian Martin, State Street's head of Global Services South East Asia & Pacific. State Street won a number of contracts in the superannuation space last year including custodianship of Sunsuper's ...

Asia vital for Aus business: Harcourt

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... Harcourt, chief economist for Australian and Global Economics at the UNSW Australian School of Business, said China, South East Asia and increasingly India, remain extremely important for Australian business in 2012. "When Bernanke [Ben, chair of the ...

Asia growth to transform business

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 OCT 2011
... fourth biggest country in the region by population, the fifth biggest economy in greater Asia and the biggest in South East Asia. Dr Gupta however conceded that governance is a problem in Asia but with the Chinese government committed to transforming ...

Intersuisse adds senior roles to institutional desk

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
Stockbroker Intersuisse has appointed former Macquarie bank and Stonebridge institutional dealers in associate directors roles to lead its own institutional dealing desk. Former Macquarie Bank dealer Will Cleland has moved into one of the associate ...

Angelo Gordon recruits MD

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010
... institutional investors from the Sydney office. Previously Filippelis was head of institutional business in Australia and South East Asia for Societe Generale Asset Management and its affiliate, Trust Company of the West. The appointment is part of Angelo ...

NAB exits AXA AP bidding war

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 SEP 2010
... to December 2009 was $679.2 million, up from losses of $278.7 million in 2008. The best regional performer was South East Asia, where operating earnings rose 44 per cent to $50.2 million. According to the report, Australia had a mixed year - full-year ...

RBC appoints Asia Pac execs

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2010
... Capital Markets as director and will be based in Singapore, focusing on institutional clients in Singapore and South East Asia. He joins RBC Capital Markets from Calyon where he was head of capital markets in Singapore. Prior to this, he also held positions ...

AXA AP angles for bigger slice of Aus market

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2010
... particularly strong, with operating earnings up 17 per cent on the first half. The best regional performer was South East Asia, where operating earnings rose 44 per cent to $50.2 million although it was Hong Kong that brought the big bucks with $290 ...

Arise Chindonesia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
... world's third biggest democracy and is slated as having the freest media in any Asian nation, according Simon Long, south east Asia correspondent for The Economist. Long cautioned however that the worldwide environmental costs could be catastrophic without ...