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Platypus distribution director departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... dealer groups. Fidante Partners declined to expand on Hearne's new role. Fidante is expected to launch active fixed income ETFs from its boutique managers before year end. Separately, the Platypus Australian Equities Fund recently received an upgrade ...

Yarra targets wholesale market

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2018
... for institutional investors," he said. Strano ran a similar portfolio at VFMC. He is now supported by a five-person fixed income team overseen by Yarra's head of Australian fixed income Roy Keenan. Keenan said the strategy has a $1.5 trillion opportunity ...

Former UBS multi-asset expert joins boutique

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
UBS Asset Management's former head of investment strategy has joined a financial advisory firm based in Sydney. Fixed income and multi-asset specialist Tracey McNaughton joined Wilsons Advisory this month as head of global macro strategy. For the last ...

AustralianSuper awards $500m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... $500 million mandate from AustralianSuper, the super fund confirmed. Jamieson Coote Bonds was appointed to manage a fixed income mandate for the super fund at the end of June, Rainmaker research shows. JCB's mandate win gives it roughly a 5% slice ...

AMP Capital combines markets business

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
AMP Capital has combined its listed equities, fixed income and multi-asset (MAG) capabilities into a new $140 billion public markets business, appointing interim heads. AMP Capital's global chief investment officer for fixed income Simon Warner will ...

Investors unfazed by market volatility: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... or buy more stocks given the lower share prices (18% respectively). Janus Henderson Investors co-head of strategic fixed income Jenna Barnard said the current investing environment in 2018 speaks of a "textbook" definition of a late cycle. "The equity ...

ETFs attracting more money than LICs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
... month. Investors are increasingly using ETFs to gain international equities exposures, followed by Aussie equities and fixed income. Product launches in the ETF space have picked up with most new products targeting thematic investments (like robotics ...

The top-performing ETFs in September are...

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... returned about -3%. Read more about how super funds are using ETFs in their portfolios and what's the latest in the fixed income space in ETFs in our print edition, out Monday.

Are ETFs really the next smartphones?

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 OCT 2018
... trajectory it would reach US$30 trillion ($42 trillion) by 2030. Driving this will be two major forces: a flood of new fixed income ETFs and the transporting of active strategies to the "ETF wrapper." Further explaining his analogy, Lake said fixed income ...

Aviva chief executive exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... company in a strong position from which it can thrive. In Australia, Aviva Investors runs multi-strategy funds and fixed income funds. Aviva Investors is the global asset management arm of Aviva plc. It had US$482 billion ($648 billion) in assets under ...