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PIMCO enters private credit joint venture

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
... depth of resources they can bring to our investment process. We believe that a well-managed, private direct corporate lending strategy has the potential to provide an attractive risk-adjusted yield premium relative to public credit investments."

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 DEC 2016
... the European Central Bank (ECB) kept its monetary policy unchanged - repo rate at 0%; deposit rate at -0.4%; marginal lending rate at 0.25%; and asset purchases at €80 billion until the end of March 2017 - at the conclusion of its 8 December governing ...

BMW caught on car loan failures

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 6 DEC 2016
... undertaking accepted by ASIC. BMW Finance will provide $77 million in compensation to customers affected by its responsible lending failures when providing car loans for a range of vehicles and car brands, both brand new and second hand. The remediation ...

Kapstream welcomes new portfolio manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 5 DEC 2016
... Challenger's head of fixed income is joining Janus Capital subsidiary Kapstream as a portfolio manager and head of direct lending. After about 12 years in his role at Challenger, Bob Sahota is moving to Kapstream and will contribute to broad macroeconomic ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 DEC 2016
... followed gains of 0.4% in each of the previous three months. October's monthly gain were driven by the acceleration in lending growth to business (0.5% from 0.2% in September) and housing (0.6% from 0.5%) - with investor housing up 0.6% from 0.5% while ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 NOV 2016
... unchanged 5.0% year-on-year gain and takes the three-month moving average down to 4.8% from 5.0% in September. However, lending remains resilient. Loans to households rose by 1.8% in the year to October following a similar annual rate of increase in ...

HSBC expands private wealth business

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
... discretionary investment management, equities, fixed income, structured products and derivatives; as well as banking and lending services such as deposit accounts, foreign exchange, and online transactional banking. HSBC regional head of global private ...

Japanese bank Nomura ups ante in robo-advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
... events such as personal or home loan debt and school fees. The bank is the latest of the global institutions that are lending their weight to the robo-advice model. In the US, Wells Fargo, Bank of America and UBS have launched their offerings while in ...

Former adviser receives jail sentence

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... clients' signatures to represent that the clients had agreed to act as guarantors for the margin loans Used the false margin lending applications with the intention of fraudulently persuading the lender to provide him with margin loans On 67 different ...

Challis Capital wins property mandate

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2016
... mid-market developers to fund land purchases and to provide the much-needed equity shortfall imposed by the current tighter lending restrictions." Challis Capital Partners said that while the consortium has made an initial commitment of $100 million ...