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Platinum expands North American footprint

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
Platinum Asset Management appointed a new distributor to help expand its global equity capabilities to the US and Canadian institutional market. AccessAlpha Worldwide, an adviser and placement agent for institutional asset managers and investors, was ...

UniSuper builds equities team

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2017
... senior analyst for infrastructure, was formally the head of infrastructure, utilities and transport research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch for more than 13 years. Andrew Hill, who also hailed from Bank of America Merrill Lynch working in Australian ...

TAL maintains life insurance market lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2017
TAL continues to hold the largest share of the $16.1 billion life insurance market in the 12 months to June, figures from Strategic Insight show. TAL recorded $2.9 billion in risk premiums, closely followed by AIA Australia with $2.3 billion in which ...

Job openings in America

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017
It lags the US non-farm payrolls report but the US JOLTS (job openings and labor turnover summary) a handy check on the state of the US labour market. The Bureau of Labor Statistics'(BLS) latest update showed little change in August from July: job openings ...

No more slack?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... that Fed chair Janet Yellen used this stat to explain the slack in the labour market and therefore, slow wages growth in America. Slack no more? As if on cue, the September non-farm payrolls report showed that average hourly earnings jumped by a bigger ...

Factor-based investment demand strengthens: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
Despite their complexity, the demand for factor-based investment products is forecast to accelerate over the next five years, latest research shows. Allocations to factor-based strategies among global institutional and retail portfolios reached 17% ...

AMP Capital invests in US telecoms giant

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 OCT 2017
... in the region," he said. Trears added that AMP Capital attracted a number of new clients for the fund throughout North America, including large Canadian pension funds. "Infrastructure debt meets their investment objectives because it offers an attractive ...

Intergenerational business succession failing: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... separate study by UBS and Campden Research recently found family offices in Asia Pacific lagged behind Europe and North America in succession planning - only 13% have written plans in place, while 19.4% have no plan at all. The PwC report noted a majority ...

Trump-flation returns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 29 SEP 2017
... understand. Second, give American workers a pay raise by allowing them to keep more of their hard-earned paychecks. Third, make America the jobs magnet of the world by leveling the playing field for American businesses and workers. Finally, bring back ...

Family offices put focus back on equities: Research

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
... Markets (23.7%) and Asia-Pacific (20.3%) significantly exceed those of Europe (17.7%) and nearly double those in North America (10.2%). When asked about their future intentions for asset allocations, most of the participating family offices are planning ...