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Global iShares lead promoted, successor named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
... The appointments come at the same time as news BlackRock is preparing to reduce its global workforce by 3%. The trillion-dollar asset manager confirmed about 500 staff members will be let go as a result of ongoing market uncertainty, changing investor ...

Advice groups sign on to HUB24

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... between June 30 and December 31 last year. Overall, the wrap, platform and master trusts are inching towards the trillion dollar mark, according to September-end analysis from Strategic Insight. Wraps have the biggest share of the total masterfunds market ...

Chief economist update: Fed fail

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 DEC 2018
... MSCI developed equity index is down 9% and the emerging market measure has fallen by 13.3% over the same period. The US dollar index is rising while at the same time emerging market currencies are collapsing. Thomson Reuters/CoreCommodity CRB Commodity ...

Shareholders put NAB board in the hot seat

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
NAB executives were slammed for destroying shareholder value and for losing its lead as Australia's biggest bank by market capitalisation at its annual general meeting in Melbourne this morning. One shareholder during the question and answer session ...

Final call for 2019 Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... these economic factors are global and two are more geographically specific. The obvious factor is EM trading against the US dollar. The second factor is the US interest rate cycle. "We've got [potentially] four rate hikes between now and the end ...

Chief economist update: The clown in the White House

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
... It's hard not to agree with US President Donald Trump's latest tweet: "It is incredible that with a very strong dollar and virtually no inflation, the outside world blowing up around us, Paris is burning and China way down, the Fed is even considering ...

Bonds reward equity investors seeking refuge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... thing is, Cole said, is the US Government is going to issue increasingly large volumes of long-term debt to fund trillion dollar budget deficits, and its Fed Reserve is reducing its balance sheet by reversing progressively its quantitative easing or ...

Bentham AM launches mFund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
... through mFunds, we have recently added the fund to a few platforms and received ratings." Quin says it's hard to put a dollar value on how big an opportunity mFunds is for the strategy, because they may overlap with other channels of raising capital. ...

Insurer awards $80m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... recommended two-year investment period through investments in fixed income and currency markets. It recently created an Aussie dollar share class. H2O Asset Management chief executive Bruno Crastes said: "The share class was created for Australian wholesale ...

Putting a price tag on clean investing

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
Pension funds and asset managers are among those who could create $20 trillion in new wealth if the world economy transitions to zero carbon and zero waste policies, according to new research. Professor Martina Linnenluecke, who leads Macquarie University's ...