The private lunch between Barrenjoey and RBA governor Philip Lowe was instigated by the start-up investment bank amid questions over the outlook for inflation.
Barclays readies bond deal; Barrenjoey on ticket
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Barrenjoey Capital Partnersâ fixed income team has landed its first mandate â and itâs one thatâs close to home.
Former UBS fixed income boss Duncan Haigâs new fixed income team at Barrenjoey Capital is off and racing. Â
Quentin Jones
The investment banking start-up was in the market for its part-owner Barclays on Tuesday morning, taking indications of interest from debt investors ahead of a Barclays Australian dollar denominated bond deal.
Barrenjoeyâs name popped out in a large syndicate of bookrunners that also included usual names like ANZ, Barclaysâ own desk, CBA, Mizuho Securities, National Australia Bank, Nomura, Standard Chartered Bank and Westpac.
Barrenjoey bolsters fixed income team
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Upstart investment bank Barrenjoey Capital Partners has made another slew of hires to strengthen its fixed income team as former UBS Australia boss Mathew Grounds prepares to join the outfit he had a hand in shaping.
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Australian Financial Review understands that Yeeshu Kumar has been lured from Hong Kong – where he is a director at HSBC covering cash and derivative products – to join the new bank. Prior to HSBC, he worked at UBS for almost eight years.
Yeeshu Kumar has been hired by Barrenjoey Capital to join the fixed income team.
It is also expected that Lee Johns and UBS veterans Sam Kirtley and Samuel Cochrane will join the fixed income team under Duncan Haig, another former UBS trader and now Barrenjoey founding partner who has been busy assembling the new team for the “mini-Macquarie”-style investment bank.
Inside lane: how Barrenjoey cut in on UBS
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Barrenjoey Capital has joined UBS, Macquarie and Morgan Stanley as an adviser for Transurban’s potential buyout of WestConnex in the latest example of the upstart investment bank swooping in on the Swiss bank’s turf.
As well as cutting in on UBS’ mandate with a long-term and lucrative client, the new firm, run by chief executive Brian Benari, has poached its bankers, legal counsel Annette Spencer and, this week, top-rated analysts.
It’s even fighting it out for talent in the schools, launching a cadet program, just like UBS.