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Advisers to return US$125m in fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
Financial advisers in the US are set to return about US$125m million to retail customers after a regulatory clampdown on inadequate fee disclosures last year. The Securities and Exchange Commission charged 79 people, including well-known names such ...

CFSGAM expands US footprint with senior hires

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2019
... appointments amid growing institutional demand for infrastructure. CFSGAM, which is known as First State Investments in North America, hired John Ma as a director to oversee new investment opportunities in the region. Ma was previously chief of staff ...

Perpetual announces Fulbright scholar

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... Perpetual said. His host organisation, INROADS addresses the under-representation of minorities in the boardrooms of corporate America. It was founded in 1970 and now has more than 28,000 graduates currently in executive positions in more than 1000 major ...

Chief economist update: US economic growth is slowing and accelerating

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2019
US economic growth has slowed in the final quarter of 2018. US economic growth continues to accelerate in the last quarter of 2018. Both are correct statements. It only depends what measurement of US GDP growth rate is used. The US Bureau of Economic ...

UniSuper makes two senior hires

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
... analyst at Australian Equities investment manager JCP Investment Partners. Prior to this, she held senior roles with Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Australia and Hong Kong. Chief investment officer John Pearce said Heard will strengthen UniSuper's ...

AUM growth subdued to 2025: Bloomberg

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
New research from Bloomberg suggests fee margins of global asset managers will drop 11% over the next six years. Most of the 1950 global asset managers surveyed in the Asset Management Outlook to 2025 provided conservative AUM growth forecasts over ...

Chief economist update: Is the US about to join the global slowdown club?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2019
US consumers aren't shopping till they drop. They dropped spending. The US Census Bureau's latest update on retail spending - which constitutes the bulk of household spending that, in turn, accounts for about 70% of the US economy - showed that ...

QIC adds to global infrastructure team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2019
... associates. In the last 12 months, QIC infrastructure added principal Aman Randhawa, who leads the transport coverage in North America out of New York, with particular responsibility for origination. Read about where QIC's Ross Israel sees investment ...

Macquarie expects profit jump

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
Macquarie Group is expecting its FY19 results to outstrip last year's results by up to 15%, and has made three key appointments. This means it could post $3.9 billion in profits when it announces FY19's full-year results in early May. "While the impact ...

Chief economist update: A pretty portrait of an emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... not?). There's no point investigating China, we all know it's in a bear market and is still locking horns with America on trade. The second biggest loser in the Asian emerging market space - the ones that I track - is the Philippines. The country's ...