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Senior insto sales manager at Schroders retires

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... president of institutional sales and investment services at Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and also worked at Bank of Tokyo Mitsubishi. Explaining his departure, Bourgeois told colleagues that after nearly 35 years in the industry, it was time to ...

Japan needs trade peace with the US

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... market accounting for 19% of total exports. China accounts for 18%. This would further energise the renewed strength in Tokyo's stockmarket. As at yesterday's closing of 22,823.26 points, the Nikkei-225 index has already climbed by 10.7% from this year's ...

Vanguard Australia appoints new managing director

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 JUN 2018
... 2015 - leading the team before its launch. Kolimago joined the company in 1996. In 2000, he helped set up Vanguard's Tokyo office. Three years later he joined the institutional division as a principal in Scottsdale, Arizona. In 2008, he returned ...

Willis Towers Watson hires institutional risk expert

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... significant investment over a number of years in establishing a highly skilled and experienced team in Singapore, Hong Kong, Tokyo and Sydney," Davidson said. Jeffers will report to Stuart Ashworth, APAC managing director of financial solutions at WTW. ...

Chief economist update: Japan's other war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... saying that the Japanese currency's appreciation alone would give America a competitive advantage in its bilateral trade with Tokyo as "Made in Japan" products become more expensive to Americans. However, the yen's appreciation is also undermining the ...

Chief economist update: The yen's on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... effect from the rising stock market. The Nikkei-225 index has gained 19.1% in 2017 that followed a paltry 0.4% gain in 2016. Tokyo's equity market continued to rise this year before Wall Street's correction reversed its gains as with other world markets. ...

Hedge fund sector flourishing: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 28 NOV 2017
... launched in Sydney, complementing its existing Asia-Pacific operations in Bangalore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore and Tokyo. CME Group is led by Simon Raybould, who was previously a non-executive director at CME Europe and is currently a director ...

The BOJ's boring Halloween

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 NOV 2017
... returned -- a repeat of the 1997 episode when the tax on consumption was lifted from 3% to 5% on the 1st of April 1997. But Tokyo appears to have learnt from its history, it's now lifting the CGT in the month of October instead of April Fools' Day.

Equity research firm expands to Australia

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
... ShareBPO, FundBPO, RBC and Citi. CJ Zou was appointed client relationship manager for the APAC region and is based in the Tokyo office. Zou joined the firm earlier this year as a consultant. Spark said Style Research provides fund managers, asset owners ...

Derivatives specialist opens Sydney office, appoints Australia head

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
... Sydney office complements CME's existing Asia-Pacific operations in Bangalore, Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul, Singapore and Tokyo. CME chief executive Terry Duffy said having a foothold in Sydney "puts us in a better position to support market participants ...