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Depreciating Aussie dollar could prove opportunistic

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
Despite a turbulent reporting season ahead due to the depreciating Australian currency, Maple-Brown Abbott co-portfolio manager Matt Griffin has highlighted some of the sectors that stand to benefit. Over the last quarter the Australian dollar is down ...

Global dividend strength to continue: Plato

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2025
... according to a new report by Plato Investment Management. This was an 8.3% increase in comparison to Q4 2023 in local currency terms, or an 8.5% increase in Australian dollars. "The final quarter of 2024 was the icing on the cake for a very positive ...

Dimon 'cautiously pessimistic' on US economy

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2025
... scheme" and "as useless as a pet rock" but does not completely write it off. "We are going to have some kind of digital currency at some point. I'm not against crypto. You know, Bitcoin itself has no intrinsic value. It's used heavily by sex ...

Ares appoints EQT as RE for private market fund

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 20 DEC 2024
... mandates for FIIG Securities and Nanuk Asset Management for the FIIG Monthly Income Fund and the Nanuk New World Fund (Currency Hedged) Active ETF, respectively, earlier this year.

AI can improve super fund value chain: CFA Institute

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 DEC 2024
... are used to produce outputs before being retrained the next month, Wu said. "Outputs are then used to inform equity and currency tilts, and the model has the potential to extend to other investment decisions. Results are also used to facilitate a richer ...

FX expert jumps from Insight to HSBC

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 12 DEC 2024
... Christmas break. "I'm pleased to announce I will be working with the 3 times in a row winner of European Pensions Currency Manager of the Year - HSBC in January," he told his LinkedIn community. The multi-asset, fixed-income, currency, and derivatives ...

Future Fund to back energy transition, residential housing

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 NOV 2024
... Fund's thinking as set out in its position papers and consistent with its investment focus on seeking more local currency exposure and protection against sustained higher inflation." Combet added that to assist in delivering on the mandate to invest ...

RBA seeks input on CBDC research project

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2024
The Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) is seeking industry feedback on a central bank digital currency (CBDC) research initiative, Project Acacia. The project will explore how different forms of digital money and associated infrastructure could support ...

Former Frontier alts head joins Evergreen

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024
... assets team run by Iain McMahon. Essentially, the asset consultant reconfigured the research function so that the debt and currency team changes to defensive assets and private markets, reflecting a shift in client focus. Swaak arrived at Frontier from ...

Magellan warns of staggering sovereign debt

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2024
... second option - default - would be an outright disaster and can be avoided by countries that issue debt in their own currency such as the US. Thus, in Magellan's view, the most likely outcome is money printing, or central bank financing of budget ...