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Australian Unity expands investment team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2012
... strategy, reporting to general manager for funds management, Fiona Dunn. Three of the roles have been announced with a former UBS executive and ex-Westpac Institutional banker part of the team. Jody Fitzgerald joins as investment specialist from UBS ...

Add duration: UBS

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... peers, but now is a good time to start adding them to investment portfolios, said Matthew Johnson, interest rate strategist, UBS. The reality is that currently, we are still trading European sentiment. One of the big stories for Australia has been capital ...

The QE Paradox

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... grew by 5.4% in the year to June (the fastest since 2009) and home loan approvals bounced back by 1.3% in June. According to UBS, "Markets have a little more than 50 basis points of cuts priced over the next year..." Sure, we've read headlines upon headlines ...

AMP Capital hires MD for Asia

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... head, Hong Kong with responsibility for institutional, wholesale and retail direct business. Previously Ching held roles at UBS Global Asset Management as managing director covering Asia ex Japan, as well as at INVESCO as chief executive officer for ...

Lloyds Bank CM snaps up two former UBS FX heads

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUL 2012
Lloyds Bank Corporate Markets has expanded its global foreign exchange business, hiring two former UBS investment bank foreign exchange specialists. Paul Bernasconi and Nathan Pederson have joined, respectively, in the newly created roles of director ...

Offshore tax havens bank $32tr: report

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUL 2012
... economies combined. According to the BBC, the reports said that the three private banks handling the most assets offshore are UBS, Credit Suisse and Goldman Sachs. "This business is dominated by about 50 global banks many of which got bailout money in ...

Industry funds ride SMSF wave

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... funds will be offering SMSF-like capability to members. That is the prediction of Ian Dunbar, head of investment platforms at UBS Australia, which together with FNZ Australia developed the platform launched into AustralianSuper for their Member Direct ...

Macquarie Private expands adviser team

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2012
... private client advisers, Danny Chiu, formerly head of margin FX at MF Global and Simon Vanstone, previously a director with UBS Wealth Management. In Adelaide, Michael Sanderson has joined Macquarie as senior private wealth manager from Morgan Stanley ...

UK launches bank probe amid Libor scandal

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
... AU$451 million by the UK Financial Services Authority last week following an investigation into bank lending rates. HSBC, RBS, UBS and Citigroup are also being investigated in connection to the alleged market manipulation that led to the record Barclays ...

Investment grade wine attracts global wealth

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 18 JUN 2012
... Index has had a correlation of 0.34 with the S&P 500 Index and a correlation of 0.13 and 0.26 with gold and the Dow Jones-UBS Commodities Index, respectively," Ricardo said. "These low cross-correlations suggest that adding a separate stand-alone allocation ...