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Fidante loses $3.9bn of super fund assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... FUM increase by 9.3% to $20.1 billion. Howes flagged that the funds management business is expanding in Japan, opening a Tokyo office to support the MS&AD Insurance Group Holdings relationship and to develop distribution opportunities in the region. ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... zero percent)". Safe-haven yen purchases, resulting from current global economic and market uncertainties indicate that Tokyo would have to do much more stimulation. Whatever happened to Abe's three arrows? The European Central Bank's (ECB) main ...

Pendal Group appoints international business lead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... an equity research analyst at John Hancock in Boston and worked in Japanese equities research sales for Goldman Sachs in Tokyo and London. In her new role, Altinger will report to Gonzalez and be a member of the Pendal Group Global Executive Committee. ...

Chief economist update: Devilish details

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2019
It's still a month away, but when the policy board of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) meets to assess the state of the economy and its monetary policy response on 19-20 June, it could claim the economy is progressing as printed at its meeting in April. ...

Chief economist update: Japan becomes collateral damage in US-China trade war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... from the higher tariff tit-for-tat between these two economic behemoths. Trump hasn't completely set his crosshairs on Tokyo, but not only is Japan caught in the crossfire of the recent Sino-Yankee trade tensions, it's become collateral damage ...

Chief economist update: Japan should raise taxes another day

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
The just-released "Summary of Opinions at the Monetary Policy Meeting on March 14 and 15, 2019" contained the same optimism that the Bank of Japan (BOJ) had been telling us and itself for as long as I can remember. The same rose-tinted outlook on growth. ...

Nikko AM chief executive steps down

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2019
... options that were part of an incentive scheme for employees worthless. The civil case was brought by 7 former employees of Tokyo-based Nikko Asset Management who are seeking a combined $100 million in damages. They say that Shibata and his co-defendants ...

AXA IM backs Japanese logistics

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
... drivers, most notably in e-commerce. The portfolio comprises about 38,000 square metres, including five assets in Greater Tokyo and one within Greater Osaka. The assets are on average over 95% leased with strong interest in the remaining space, the group ...

S&P Dow Jones partners with pension fund giant

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... Carbon Efficient Index uses TOPIX as the universe and is co-branded with Japan Exchange Group (JPX), a partnership between Tokyo Stock Exchange Group and Osaka Securities Exchange. The S&P Global Carbon Efficient Indices are designed to reduce exposure ...

Aussie fund managers face machine learning challenges

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... shows Japanese firms are the most advanced in using machine learning to generate alpha. More than 50% of 140 respondents in Tokyo surveyed said they've started to use machine learning to generate investment signals. The majority of participants in Sydney ...