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GAM hires from BlackRock

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
The Swiss manager is investing in its local business, adding to its product offering and hiring a senior manager from BlackRock. Close to three years since opening its Australian office, GAM Investments is growing the Sydney-based team with the addition ...

Platinum launches investment bond

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
Platinum Asset Management has launched an investment bond with Australian Unity. It is offering two options: Platinum's International Fund or the Asia Fund, according to the March 19 product disclosure statement. Lifeplan Australian Friendly Society ...

Investors move to thematic funds

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
Assets in thematic funds in Australia have grown exponentially in the last year after showing stellar results through the pandemic but performance over the long term is lacklustre, new research shows. Morningstar's latest Global Thematic Funds Landscape ...

Chief economist update: OECD upgrades global growth but advises continued policy support

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
"The global economy has now returned to pre-pandemic activity levels." This was what the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development's (OECD) latest 'Economic Outlook' report revealed as it upgraded its projections for the world ...

Global Merces MD cops ASIC ban

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
The corporate regulator has banned Holly Grofski, the managing director of Global Merces Funds Management, from working in financial services for six months. ASIC's banning order is in addition to the criminal charges Grofski is facing, which alleges ...

Pengana Capital distribution executive exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 MAY 2021
Pengana Capital has bid farewell to the executive leading the international fund's distribution efforts, exiting not long after two portfolio managers left in March. Joy Yacoub was the executive director of business strategy and distribution, a ...

Chief economist update: Victoria's victory against the virus voided

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAY 2021
Australia's state of Victoria is back in lockdown. So are Victorians' irritation and anger at having their lives and livelihood restricted for the fourth time since the coronavirus began early last year. So are estimates of the cost to the state ...

Former adviser charged with $3.3m fraud

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
A former Sentinel Wealth financial adviser with a gambling addiction has been charged with stealing $3.3 million from clients. New South Wales Police confirmed to Financial Standard that Gavin Fineff was charged with 18 offences of dishonestly obtaining ...

Chief economist update: RBNZ will run out of patience next year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
The Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ) kept the official cash rate unchanged at 0.25%, maintained the existing LSAP programme, and retained the existing Funding for Lending Programme (FLP) conditions at its 26 May Board meeting. Same old, same old. ...

Superannuation assets hit $3.13tn

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAY 2021
Superannuation assets hit a record high of $3.127 trillion at the end of the March 2021, new APRA figures show. This is a 15.1% increase year on year, APRA said in releasing the quarterly figures, attributing the growth to strong investment performance. ...