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Integrity Life raises $43m

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... diversifying life insurance risks, such as mortality, critical illness and disability. Integrity Life opened its doors in mid-2018, led by Chris Powell, who has now retired. The life insurer protects more than 60,000 customers across both their group ...

New deputy Aussie equities head at Aberdeen Standard

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... sales in Australia and New York. The Aussie equities team at Aberdeen Standard managed about $1 billion in total assets as at mid-May, including a broad cap strategy and an ex-20 strategy. It was led by Robert Penaloza for nearly a decade until last ...

Chief economist update: Pandemic, what pandemic?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... fiscal stimulus to the Australian economy. The continued buoyancy in iron ore prices offer it extra spending power. In its Mid-Year Economic and Fiscal Outlook (MYEFO) handed down in July and incorporating the coronavirus pandemic, it maintained its ...

Australia world class in retirement wellbeing

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
For the fourth year in a row, Australia has ranked in the top 10 countries in the world for retirement outcomes but the impact of the pandemic will be felt for some time, new research from Natixis Investment Managers shows. Australia nabbed the seventh ...

Chief economist update: Australia's third arrow

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
"We are one, but we are many And from all the lands on earth we come We'll share a dream..." - The Seekers Yes Virginia, we, Australians all, are one in anticipating Christmas to come on October 6 this year - the day when most expect the Reserve ...

Asset allocators not prepared for market complexity: Milestone

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
Institutional asset allocators face an increasingly complex investment landscape, but do not have the tools to efficiently implement and manage new strategies, according to Milestone Group. The research found that institutional asset allocators are ...

Active manager performance slumps: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... 10.42%, about two thirds of the funds analysed underperformed the benchmark in the first half of 2020. Among Aussie small- and mid-cap funds, more than half (55.6%) did not beat the benchmark. International equity funds fared better; while the benchmark ...

Fidelity launches global fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
Fidelity International has launched an actively-managed global fund that invests in small- to mid-caps. The Fidelity Global Future Leaders Fund is jointly run by portfolio managers James Abela and Maroun Younes. The portfolio managers look to invest ...

Chief economist update: The W in the second wave

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
"The summer has ended When it left, you left too..." -Leif Garrett, When I Think of You' Right in the middle of the Northern Hemisphere summer, the Euro Stoxx-50 index surged by 42.7% from the eight-year low it plumbed in the middle of March this ...

IRESS caves in, ups OneVue bid

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... since last year, including at as high as 44 cents a share in August 2019 and at the much lower 11 cents a share in March. By mid-June they owned 14.96% of OVH stock. They have continued to buy more since IRESS's June 1 offer, and had an 18.25% voting ...