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EM bonds attractive despite pullback: Eaton Vance

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... acknowledges that EM markets have a political risk but adds that it offers opportunity for improvement as the impact of politics in selection may serve as an opportunity for differentiation and return, especially as developed central banks remove liquidity. ...

Parametric expands alternative risk premia offering

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... Chris Briant said the SARP strategy uses a systems-based model to safeguard trades from psychological biases, internal politics and other personal and organisational factors that can stand in the way of executing sound investing strategy. Parametric ...

BTFG boss backs PC super proposals

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... design work remains to be done. Nevertheless, we recognise that the report presents a unique opportunity for both sides of politics to agree a bipartisan model," Cooper said. Cooper says it is "necessary" to take small and underperforming products off ...

Chief economist update: Italy and Spain an emerging ECB problem

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
Geo-politics remain the talk of the financial markets as Trump's rolling circus again came to the fore with his flip-flop-flip over the US-North Korean summit - just a day after Trump cancelled the summit, he declared it back on again. Make what ...

Chief economist update: Wisdom of the crowd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... who are so, just as public dinners to which many contribute are better than those supplied at one man's cost." - "Politics", Aristotle This, according to Dr. Google, was the first reference to what has now been applied to statistics, business and ...

US project to end pension politics

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 APR 2018
An American non-profit - led by a former state treasurer - is demanding pension plan managers stop putting politics before prudent investment. The Institute for Pension Fund Integrity (IPFI) says if a fund manager is investing pension money based on ...

Chief economist update: Just a hiccup in a rising trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2018
... continue to put Wall Street to task, Main Street is taking the goings-on in America - fiscal and monetary policy, economics, politics and international trade - in its stride. This is no better underscored by the just-released results of the consumer ...

Retirees force the politics of income

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 9 FEB 2018
... said. Populism is not something aligned purely to event risk, he added. As an economist Lawson was reticent to focus on politics but said it must now play an increasingly important role in the thinking of asset managers worldwide. "The political environment ...

Former NZ Prime Minister joins bank board

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
... University School of Business Advisory Board. Key was Prime Minister of New Zealand from 2008 to 2016 and prior to entering politics, was the head of global foreign exchange for Merrill Lynch and a member of the Foreign Exchange Committee of the Federal ...

We cannot underestimate humans: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... behind human aggregation has shifted in the last 80 or so years. This aggregation shift and the rise of populism effects politics, economics and global markets and therefore it effects superannuation. "Why are people so disenfranchised with political ...