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Global $221bn manager hires BlackRock exec for new Australian office

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... complement to our existing suite of absolute return and risk premia strategies. It also offers a solution with a higher volatility profile that meets the objectives of our portfolios," Kabashima said. GAM is also transitioning out of its 14-year third-party ...

Aussie fixed income managers with global teams outperform: Zenith

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2018
... research from Zenith Investment Partners. However, the edge in the global-teams' performance came with a spike in risk volatility. The research looked at 24 fund managers in the Australian fixed income space. Eleven of these had domestic-only teams ...

BAT stocks worse than FANGs: SSGA

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2018
... attractive than BATs and FANGs on growth and valuation counts. BAT stocks prove to be less resilient than FANGs to volatility in the February drawdown. Their average cumulative return was -16% as compared to their US-counterparts' -6%. Average cumulative ...

Citi launches currency product, targets HNW investors

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... 2018, we saw a 50% increase in the number of foreign exchange transactions on the previous year with the pickup in volatility," he said. Citi provided examples of how the Global Currency Account (GCA) could help investors, including: To receive rent ...

Chief economist update: Building approvals on a slowing trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
... accounted for all of April's fall. Approvals to build private sector houses increased by 0.1% in the month. The volatility of the monthly figures - seasonally adjusted as they are - renders an analysis of the true state and trend in the housing market ...

Aussie retail crypto fund flags broker partnership

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
... there have been concerns of increasing correlations with equity markets, especially during recent periods of market volatility. But Nguyen said this was coincidental. "Actually, one of the advantages is that it is uncorrelated to a lot of asset classes ...

Big data's big retirement benefits

DARREN SNYDER, STEPHEN FAY  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... them well. For example, Northern Trust Asset Management global head of retirement solutions Sabrina Bailey said recent volatility in market performance throughout January and February resulted in a six standard deviation result of millennials switching ...

T. Rowe Price appoints head of research

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2018
... optimistic about the value that our expanded team can bring to Australian investors as they navigate higher levels of volatility and the opportunities this presents," Jenneke said. The firm is also on the lookout for a senior analyst to join the six-person ...

Chief economist update: Wisdom of the crowd

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2018
... that the opinion, judgment, rationale, and assessment of the many is superior to a lone expert. While financial market volatility has come down - the VIX index closed at a reading of 13.42 last week (down from this year's high to date of 37.32) - ...

Chief economist update: Forget asking for a pay rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2018
... make for a good story - good or bad - this month, the same way it did last month and the months before that. But the volatility of the monthly changes in the seasonally adjusted measure of employment provides a confusing picture of the state of the labour ...