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Zurich Investments shuts down fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
... for the next 12-18 months after which the business will build a three-year strategy. Last month, Zurich Investments awarded DWS a $100 million passive management mandate for Aussie equities in a change of managers.

Zurich awards $100m passive mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2019
... manager has won a mandate to invest $100 million in ASX-listed equities for Zurich Group's Australian investment management arm. DWS will invest in a passively-managed portfolio of Australian stocks for Zurich Investment Management. Zurich's head of ...

Aussies instos join fight against weapons

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
... by Swiss Sustainable Finance, including giants Legal and General Investment Management, UBS Asset Management, Man Group and DWS Group. The letter's signatories manage assets totalling US$6.9 trillion. The letter was sent to the chief executives and chairpersons ...

Chief economist update: A pretty portrait of an emerging market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
Citing Sean Taylor - DWS chief investment officer for Asia Pacific and head of emerging market equities - Financial Standard editor, Darren Snyder, penned a report titled, "Asia, emerging markets to lead in 2019" last week. "Speaking at the Financial ...

Asia, emerging markets to lead in 2019

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
Asia's debt-to-equity ratio and safer company balance sheets are making a convincing case for DWS to increase its exposure in the region as well as broader emerging markets. Speaking at the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum in Sydney yesterday ...

Labour and housing drive rate sentiment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... economists and industry professionals meet at the Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum next month in Sydney and Melbourne. DWS Asia Pacific chief investment officer and global head of emerging markets, Sean Taylor, thinks differently from AMP Capital ...

State Super CIO exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
... shortly promoted to investment chief. Before State Super, Hedley spent seven years at the infrastructure investment arm of DWS, RREEF Infrastructure. He was first as a director of portfolio management and then the head of portfolio and asset management ...

Final call for 2019 Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... valuations are relatively cheap yet investor sentiment is dim. Previewing the 2019 Financial Standard Chief Economists Forum, DWS chief investment officer for Asia Pacific and head of emerging market equities Sean Taylor said three of these economic ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... since the GFC. As proxies, investors turn to E-mini S&P 500 Futures and a BlackRock ETF that each charge only 4bps, she says. DWS passive capital markets specialist David Stack says prior to the GFC, fixed income ETFs were used an asset allocation tool ...

Global fund manager replaces COO

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2018
... Prior to Vontobel, he was the head of distribution for OppenheimerFunds, and spent over a decade at Deutsche Asset Management/DWS, where he held numerous leadership roles in the US and Switzerland, including chief executive of the New York-based distribution ...