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AMP Capital divests $440m from tobacco

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... completed its divestment of $440 million in tobacco manufacturing-related holdings from across all its equity and fixed income investments. This is the largest divestment tobacco securities by a fund manager in Australia, the manager said. At the United ...

Pension fund awards custody mandate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... Mellon. The $827 billion National Pension Service of Korea (NPS) appointed BNY Mellon as its global custodian for fixed income. BNY Mellon Asia Pacific head of asset servicing Rohan Singh said the deal affirmed the value of the firm's integrated servicing ...

Nikko expands green bond capability

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... London-based team which oversees an actively managed and diversified portfolio of green bonds. Nikko AM global head of fixed income Andre Severino said the strategy invests in green bonds across developed and developing markets. "We believe this best ...

Industry super fund commits to green bonds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... climate goals and their financial balance sheets and investment plans." The move follows LGS awarding a $440 million fixed income mandate to PIMCO late last month, with roughly 15% of the mandate set to be invested in green bonds.

Pengana flags private equity LIT launch

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... acquired a minority stake in boutique credit investment manager Global Credit Investment (GCI). GCI is a specialist fixed income and credit investment manager with a bias towards investing in short-duration credit. It has deployed about $100 million ...

Unlisted property returns surpass equities: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2018
... Funds Association and the Property Council of Australia. Unlisted property also outperformed listed property (9.7%), fixed income (4%) and cash (1.95%). Meanwhile, the direct property markets continued to perform strongly, delivering 11.7% for the period ...

Boutique manager expands fixed income team

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
... investors continue to pour money into its strategies. Ardea Investment Management has appointed former Deutsche Bank fixed income research expert Jean Dumas to its investment strategy team. Dumas will generate investment ideas for Ardea, drawing on his ...

BNP Paribas launches Aussie equities trust

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
... environmental equities, global value equities, global growth equities and global emerging market equities, in addition to fixed income, multi-asset and infrastructure investment products.

ETFs increasingly used to trade risk

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 SEP 2018
... was indexed, but when broken down further, less than 5% of the global equities market were comprised of ETFs. In fixed income, ETFs account for just 1% of the global market. Petering said there was "a lot of misrepresentation" about ETFs in the media ...

University endowment fund awards mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
Australian National University's endowment fund has appointed a global manager to run an ESG-focused fixed income strategy. Aberdeen Standard Investments will actively manage Australian fixed income with an ESG overlay for the nearly $1.3 billion endowment ...