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The ugly truth: Unattractive fund managers are investment darlings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023
According to a study by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, having a face only a mother could love pays off in funds management, as unattractive fundies outperform their good-looking peers. In the first economics study to employ a deep learning model to ...

Pacific Current Group buys stake in PE firm

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2023
Pacific Current Group (PAC) has acquired a minority investment in San Francisco-based private equity firm Cordillera Investment Partners (Cordillera). The $44.9 million deal will see PAC take on 16.4% of Cordillera's revenues, both management fees and ...

Economic recap: Week to December 3

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2021
Australians all, let us rejoice... for despite the Delta-induced lockdowns in the September quarter, the domestic economy shrank by much less than most of us were expecting. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) National Accounts report shows ...

Chief economist update: The Fed and Australia

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2021
Just when we thought Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has tapered sooner-than-later taper expectations, along comes Robert Steven Kaplan -- president and chief executive of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas. While the US Federal Reserve was waxing ...

Clime revamps strategy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2021
... practices. Clime also completed work to return funds to investors after its successful participation in a class action against UGL. Clime won an $18 million settlement in the proceedings against UGL, which claimed that it breached its continuous disclosure ...

How early release impacts the ASX

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
With more than one million people applying for the government's early release scheme, questions surrounding super fund ownership in equity markets have come to the fore. The government's scheme will so far put at least a $9 billion strain on Australia's ...

The next big short

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 APR 2020
Late last year, before extreme weather events battered the world, before COVID-19, The Big Short 's Michael Burry said he had found the next bubble: passive investments. Now, with asset prices trembling in the face of the pandemic, could there still ...

Listed infrastructure mispriced: FSI

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2020
First Sentier Investors believes listed infrastructure has been mispriced as a result of COVID-19 pandemic, creating a buying opportunity for shrewd investors. First Sentier deputy head of global listed infrastructure Andrew Greenup said global listed ...

Long-time IOOF director steps down

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 FEB 2020
... health insurer BUPA and the Colonial Foundation Trust. She previously served as a director of David Jones, Medibank Private, UGL Limited and DUET Finance.

Clime Capital settles class action

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
... $8.3 million. Backed by IMF Bentham, Clime told shareholders it was pleased the in-principle settlement has been reached with UGL, a firm that provides engineering, construction, maintenance and asset management services to the rail, resources and infrastructure ...
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