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Bonds not out of the game

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2020
Bond managers appear to be taking a more active approach to investing in the current low-volatility environment, according to Bank of China's head of fixed income Mark Todd. Looking into the performance of the major bond funds form the last 12 months ...

Chief economist update: It's a holiday for the Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2020
... market conditions, and inflation near the Committee's symmetric 2 percent objective as the most likely outcomes," it read. In the Fed we trust. Financial markets trusted the Fed's forward guidance back then so much so that, after the January ...

Chief economist update: Turn the beat around

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
The stats are out and they reveal that Australia's inflation genie is still inside Aladdin's lamp. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) consumer price index report showed headline inflation inched to 1.8% in the year to the December ...

GAM hires, launches new strategies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
GAM Investments is expanding its Australia business with a new hire for its wholesale business and the introduction of two new funds. Ryan Crewe has been appointed manager - key accounts and will be responsible for developing GAM's distribution ...

UK regulator fined for pension failure

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... available to members and the 2019 governance statement (provided in October) was fully compliant," the FCA's statement read. In a statement also provided to FT, TPR said it was not afraid to take action against trustees of non-compliant pension schemes ...

Chief economist update: Coronavirus has gone viral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... no symptoms. Neil Ferguson, an Imperial College epidemiologist, estimated that 4,000 were infected by January 18. Jonathan Read, of Lancaster University, and colleagues provisionally calculate that the tally could exceed 190,000 by February 4." For sure ...

Statewide dumps executives

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
... action was taken - appropriate regulators were informed and a statement was released on our website," an updated statement read on Thursday afternoon. The fund confirmed internal investigations are continuing. "We take our responsibilities as trustee ...

The growing risk to financial advisers

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
Financial advisers must act to repair the trust deficit or risk being superseded by superannuation funds. That's according to advisory and accounting firm HLB Mann Judd's Michael Hutton, who warned of the threat the changes could have to financial ...

Chief economist update: Australians all let's not rejoice

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2020
"I'm walking on sunshine (Wow!) I'm walking on sunshine (Wow!) I'm walking on sunshine (Wow!) And don't it feel good." Sadly, Australians are not singing and dancing to this upbeat classic by Katrina and the Waves. The Westpac/Melbourne ...

The ingredients of a successful fund manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
New research from Zenith has found that fund managers with bigger investment teams and specialist coverage responsibilities tend to outperform their peers but opening multiple offices around the world will not give you a performance edge. Zenith compared ...