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Honan launches reinsurance offering

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... Honan has announced it will enter the reinsurance market through the launch of Honan Re. Honan Re commenced operations in April 2021, based in Singapore and headed by Honan Asia managing director Eliza White. It will offer facultative reinsurance solutions ...

Chief economist update: Australia's confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... "when Australia's post-GFC rebound and mining boom were in full swing" (Westpac). The survey was conducted from 5-10 April which means that respondents would have been aware of the delays from the vaccine roll-out and after the JobKeeper scheme has ...

Rest appoints head of investment strategy

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... In another appointment at Rest, Sally Cobb was named the head of capital markets. Both appointments came into effect on April 12. "Andrew and Sally's appointments are important milestones as Rest continues to strengthen its management investments expertise ...

Mainstream obtains superior takeover offer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... is at a 67% premium to Vistra's offer. As such, Mainstream has notified Vistra to either match or make a better offer by April 16. The scheme implantation deed is conditional upon Vistra not exercising the Vistra matching right, Mainstream terminating ...

ETP demand soars, unlisted unit trusts retract

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... market-cap-weighted exposures along the lines of region, country, sector, industry, and so on," she said. This article was updated on April 14.

Chief economist update: ScoMo cannot miss new vaccination target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
... one better and all but abandoned his government's vaccine roll-out target. Taking to Facebook, Morrison announced on April 10 that: "The government has also not set, nor has any plans to set any new targets for completing first doses. While we would ...

Chief economist update: No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
... even worse, worlometer.info data shows that the number of infected persons around the world has risen to 23.7 million as of April 11 - a record high that eclipses the 23.0 million registered at the end of January this year (before not a few countries ...

YFYS net must be cast wider: Cbus

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
... amendment that it should not be passed as it stands," she said. The Senate inquiry report on the legislation is due by 22 April 2021 and the proposed measures are intended to apply from 1 July 2021.

Natixis IM appoints chief executive

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
... its chief executive and leader of asset and wealth management, succeeding Jean Raby. Tim Ryan, who will assume the role on April 12, was at Generali for four years as group chief investment officer for insurance assets and global chief executive of asset ...

Chief economist update: Europa rides the bull once again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
... growing by 3.9% this year - up from 3.6% it forecast it December - and 3.8% in 2022 - up from 3.3%. Similarly, the IMF's April 2021 "World Economic Outlook' report sees the region's economy growing stronger - 4.4% in 2021 and 3.8% in 2022-compared ...