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Institutional investors' risk appetite trends down: State Street

ANGELIQUE MINAS  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2026
... Evans said. "Both flows and positioning and underwhelming for the Great British pound, while the flow profile for the Swiss Franc is the strongest across G10, a reflection of a modest lurch into a more defensive stance at month-end." Speaking to the ...

UBS throws $4.8bn lifeline to Credit Suisse

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2023
UBS has agreed to acquire the embattled Credit Suisse for $4.8 billion. As part of the deal, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) will provide an additional $160 billion (CHF 100 billion)) in liquidity assistance to support the merge. UBS plans to appoint ...

Credit Suisse backs sustainability amid Federer furore

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
Investment bank and financial services powerhouse Credit Suisse has backed sustainability as the dominant investment theme of the coming decade, despite ongoing uproar around its investment in fossil fuels. The prediction comes as Australia's bushfire ...

Chief economist update: The hazard of being a safe haven

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
... mounting uncertainties have pushed investors into safe haven assets such as longer-term bonds and currencies like the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen. Ahh yes, the Japanese yen - except for its mini-me trade war with South Korea, where both countries ...

Chief economist update: Will Australia avoid another global recession?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... bonds (despite their low, and in some, negative yields); the US dollar is up but safehaven currencies such as the Swiss franc and the Japanese yen are upper; gold's in, copper is out. Even central banks are busily preparing for the "R" contingency. ...

Chief economist update: Currency manipulators beware

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
... this year, The Economist published its 'Big Mac' index. It showed that apart from the overvaluation of the Swiss franc (18.7%), Norwegian krone (5.0%) and Swedish krona (4.6%), currencies in the rest of the world are undervalued relative to the ...

Citi launches currency product, targets HNW investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... British Pound, Euro, Canadian Dollar, Hong Kong Dollar, Japanese Yen, New Zealand Dollar, Singapore Dollar and the Swiss Franc, and there is potential to expand the list based on customer demand.

Less room for mid-tier asset managers: Stern

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
Standard Life Investments head of multi-asset and macro investing, Guy Stern, believes the asset management industry will soon stratify into trillion-dollar players and boutiques - with not much room for a middle ground. Speaking to Financial Standard ...

Morningstar introduces global risk model

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
... the currency factors are the Australian dollar, British pound, Canadian dollar, euro, yen, New Zealand dollar and Swiss franc. Commenting on the launch, Morningstar head of asset management software Warren Miller said: "Risk analysis is paramount to ...

Janet's words stronger than BOJ and ECB bazookas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 APR 2016
... euros and yens, the greenback has also weakened against the Australian and Canadian dollars, the British pound and the Swiss franc, among others. Overall the US dollar index is down 4.1% this year. Perhaps now The Office of the US Executive Director ...
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