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AB appoints institutional MD

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
AllianceBernstein (AB) has appointed a managing director for the institutional side of the business, the Australia Client Group. Jeremy Browne will report to AB chief executive in Australia and New Zealand Jen Driscoll, the company confirmed. Browne ...

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 ...

Cloud-based research platform launched

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2015
A cloud-based platform aiming to provide a single space for buy-side firms to manage their research while delivering them content from research providers was launched recently. In a format similar to popular online music platforms, Seed Alpha is reported ...

Larry Fink warns of bubble in income assets

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
Head of the world's largest fund manager has warned shareholders about an ever-expanding bubble in yield-paying assets, inflated by central bank liquidity measures. In a letter to shareholders, BlackRock chief executive Laurence Fink said aggressive ...

A fantabulous set of jobs numbers

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
"Hooray! Hooray! It's A Holi-Holiday..." -Bonnie M. Hooray! Hooray! Hooray for the fantabulous Australian jobs report for March. It's a holi-holiday for the RBA in May. Well... maybe. 'twas a wonderful set of numbers. The Australian Bureau of Statistics ...

Cheap talk, cheaper money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
They talk the talk but aren't walking the talk. This is what I walk out with after poring through the American Association of Individual Investors' (AAII) sentiment and asset allocation surveys conducted in the last week of March. In its 2 April report ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
The Australian share market has opened lower in the wake of negative offshore leads and lingering disappointment over trade figures out of China. "Offshore leads weren't great. In combination with that, there's a little bit of negativity from the China ...

Floating in money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
What lifts all boats? Nah, Virginia, it's no longer "a rising tide" - not if you believe the IMF's latest annual World Economic Outlook (WEO) report published this month where it printed, "Output across advanced and emerging market economies remains ...

Aurora appoints OneVue founding member

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2015
Aurora has appointed Stephen Karrasch as its new head of distribution. Prior to Aurora, Karrasch held roles at Macquarie Bank and Rothschild Australia. He was a founding member of OneVue and was most recently head of sales at Philo Capital Advisers. ...

Hyperion closes funds to new investors

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2015
Hyperion Asset Management is soft-closing its retail funds and has already completely closed its institutional business to new inflows. The soft closure for retail investors will take effect as at 30 April 2015. The fund manager will no longer accept ...