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Why BlackRock is taking a risk-on view

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAR 2024
... such, it has tweaked its tactical views and is staying firmly on the pro-risk side. "Central bank activity last week gave markets the thumbs up to stay upbeat. That keeps us pro-risk in our six- to 12-month tactical views as Q2 starts," it said. "We ...

Perpetual awards State Street subsidiary a major mandate

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2024
... forged on Charles River's proven solutions and multi-asset capabilities, especially for Australian and global fixed income markets. "This is an important partnership that ensures the streamlining and simplification of front office operations within Australia ...

Northern Trust appoints head of international enterprise client solutions

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2024
... said. Paulin has 25 years of experience in senior level investment research, business creation, asset management, capital markets, and asset servicing roles. Before joining Northern Trust, where he was most recently head of global strategic solutions ...

Former Schroders chief joins private markets firm

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2024
... clients," he said. Hallinan added that he wanted to work in a business that had a platform to leverage the growth in private markets and, most importantly, offer investors quality, hard-to-access portfolio solutions. "I am very pleased to be joining ...

Why active managers are falling behind in emerging markets

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2024
Equities investors in emerging markets targeting outperformance may be better served implementing a multifactor strategy, according to new research from VanEck. The research paper, Factor-in Emerging Markets, revealed employing multiple factors would ...

Institutional investors shift gears amid 'new market regime'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... investors. Corporates were the top choice for investors allocating to investment-grade and below investment-grade fixed income markets as well as private fixed income markets," Perry said. "Investors are seeing greater value than before in these fixed-rate ...

UK advisers told to review retirement advice processes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... that they may better understand the FCA's methodology. Commenting on the review's findings, FCA executive director of markets and international Sarah Pritchard said: "Financial advisers have a vital role in helping consumers to make the right decisions ...

US Federal Reserve eyes multiple interest rate cuts this year

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2024
... slow quantitative tightening fairly soon." Shah said the past few months had been particularly volatile, with financial markets expecting the Fed to cut policy rates at least six times this year. "The hot January and February inflation and jobs reports ...

Financial services class actions surge

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... signed new members up for income protection cover by default. A couple of days earlier a class action was filed against IC Markets for consumer harm caused by offering retail investors the ability to trade CFDs. In October 2023, a class action was filed ...

Economists react to latest RBA rate decision

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2024
... with three 0.25% rate cuts by year end, taking the cash rate down to 3.6% by December. Meanwhile, State Street Global Markets head of APAC macro strategy Dwyfor Evans said: "The RBA kept the cash rate on hold as widely expected. The tone of the remarks ...