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QIC signs US investment partnership

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
QIC is investing in a Boston university's parking systems as part of a 50-year partnership, building its American infrastructure presence. QIC Global Infrastructure has formed a new company MasParc and Mobility LLC that will take over the management ...

Chief economist update: Trump trumps Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
It appeared that not only us, Australians all, were celebrating Australia Day on January 26. Our American brethren were too... but for a different reason. The Dow rose by 0.7% on the day (January 25 in New York); the S&P 500 increased 0.8% and the Nasdaq ...

AMP Capital starts new team, appoints two leads

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
AMP Capital has set up a new investment team aimed at large institutional investors, appointing two heads. The global direct investments team will oversee direct investments made alongside AMP Capital's infrastructure equity funds. AMP Capital has ...

Chief economist update: Policy normalisation interrupted

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2019
... this period." No one, including the IMF, countenanced that Trump would follow through on his campaign pledge to "Make America Great Again" by starting a trade war with the world in late March 2018. The impact of which is clearly shown in the IMF's ...

Chief economist update: US consumer sentiment cops bullet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
"Not happy, Jan!" For the young ones, the quote refers to Telstra's "yellow pages" advertisement back in the days before the internet, when you, I and Irene scoured through pages and pages (two volumes of it) of listings to buy stuff or get our ...

UniSuper awards fixed income mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... trimmed its equity allocations. JCB was started in 2014 by former JP Morgan bonds salesman Angus Coote and former Bank of America Merrill Lynch bond trader Charles Jamieson. How JCB is building its business The boutique is now managing $1.4 billion of ...

Macquarie Capital bolsters regional industrials team

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... principal investment arm of Macquarie Group appointed two senior managing directors to co-head its industrials vertical in America. Robert Bayer and Ajay Singh have been selected to lead the firm's efforts in the industrials in the Americas, with Bayer ...

Willis Re refreshes executive lineup

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... co-head of Asia Pacific in 2015 and has 20 years of insurance-focused investment banking experience spread across Bank of America and Merrill Lynch. The business is also moving its international head of catastrophic analytics, Karl Jones, back to Sydney ...

VanEck drops fees on ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
Australia's first China A-shares ETF has knocked 12bps off its annual management fees, after a decision taken by the board in the United States. The VanEck Vectors ChinaAMC CSI 300 ETF (ASX: CETF) will now charge 0.60% instead of the 0.72%. The ...

Fed's pause becomes the ECB's problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... a month ago) while the chances of a rate hike to 2.50%-2.75% declined to 16.4% from 31.1%. This brings good tidings to America and by extension, emerging markets, through its flow on effects on the US dollar (a weaker one). However, a weakening US dollar ...