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PROFILE: PGI chief executive Grant Forster

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2015
... and I had no girlfriend. So all those things said to me: go to London," he says. After a few months backpacking in the United States, where he explored the underground jazz scene, Forster landed in London, where he soon found a job at ANZ Grindlays Bank ...

AustralianSuper buys $370m stake in Boston building

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2015
... attracted to 75 State Street as a result of its strong tenancy profile and prime location in one of the leading cities in the United States." AustralianSuper's property portfolio has now over $7 billion in assets and plans to have around 10% of the fund's ...

AB appoints institutional MD

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... Browne was previously a business leader in Australia at Arrowstreet Capital and, before that, he led the business in the United Kingdom and in the rest of Europe. Prior to that, he worked for PIMCO in Australia and was a sell-side analyst at Citigroup ...

Henderson launches dividend-seeker fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... "an easier and safer way to analyse a company." The fund is currently invested in large technology companies based in the United States, such as Cisco. About 15% of the portfolio is allocated in pharmaceuticals, with a focus on "new treatments that could ...

Pubs satisfying BlackRock income thirst

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2015
Pubs in the United Kingdom are proving an attractive source of income in an otherwise low yield environment, according to the world's largest asset manager BlackRock. "In the UK, the only area we have positive exposure to is pub bonds," BlackRock deputy ...

UK business leads BTIM inflows

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... under management by $10.7 billion for the six months to 31 March with strong net inflows coming from its business in the United Kingdom. Funds under management were up 16% to $77.1 billion and net inflows were $2.1 billion. Of those, $2.7 billion came ...

PIMCO appoints Bernanke to advice role

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
PIMCO has appointed former chairman of the United States Federal Reserve Ben Bernanke as senior adviser. Bernanke will contribute his economic expertise and insights to the firm's investment process and periodically engage PIMCO's clients, the bond ...

BOE no change, no worries

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2015
... headline inflation could turn temporarily negative in the coming months and the looming 7 May general elections in the United Kingdom leave the British central bank no other option but to keep monetary policy unchanged. It would have been different. ...

What might trigger a sell-off?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... prices. Capital that flowed into emerging markets could flow out again, perhaps when interest rates begin to rise in the United States. That would probably occur alongside an appreciating US dollar. So the distribution of credit risk and foreign currency ...

Don't blame "churning" on advisers: Synchron

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2015
... life insurance policies only on advisers and demanded that insurers improve product design. Synchron noted that in the United Kingdom and in South Africa, "companies acted to eliminate churn (which in turn eliminates the alleged nexus between high upfront ...