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Advice group rebuilds following regulatory headwinds

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... opportunities in property funds management, where the group is exploring direct, joint-venture and asset and funds management mandate opportunities." Spring FG saw revenue and other income decline in FY18 to $9.4 million (from $12.5 million). It resulted ...

Melbourne boutique hires deputy CIO

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... four-year old boutique sits under Channel Capital's banner, who acts as a distribution partner. It recently won a mandate to manage $500 million for the country's largest superannuation fund, AustralianSuper, Financial Standard reported last ...

KPMG hires from Macquarie

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
KPMG has hired a long-standing member of the Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets team to sustain its relationships with superannuation funds. Samantha Brewer is joining KPMG as a transaction services partner as a part of KPMG's deals, tax and legal ...

La Trobe Financial prices $750m RMBS issue

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
Credit specialist La Trobe Financial has priced its seventh issue of Residential Mortgage Backed Securities at $750 million. The issue welcomes six new investors to the RMBS program, including from Australia and overseas. La Trobe Financial chief corporate ...

Merger to create $885m LIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... BHP and Woolworths. Since its 2004 inception, it returned 11.3%, beating its benchmark by 2.2%. WLE, which has a similar mandate, invests in large-cap Australian companies in the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index. Matthew Haupt is the lead portfolio manager. ...

Future Fund appoints to board

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2018
Future Fund has appointed a former UBS global asset management chief as it renews the board of the $149 billion sovereign wealth fund, including topping up chair Peter Costello's term. Former UBS global asset management chief executive and chair John ...

Future Fund boosts alternatives assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... shows. New York-based Key Square Capital Management and California-based Clocktower Group were awarded an alternatives mandate to oversee macro-directional strategies. This asset class is co-managed with 12 others, including Pendal Group, Bridgewater ...

Pinnacle drops fees in Blue Sky fund bid

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... is to be led by BAF executive chair Andrew Champion, per the original agreement. Today, Pinnacle amended its investment mandate and is now offering to manage BAF at 1% per annum (ex GST) management fee in total, with a no-fee period of existing investments ...

AustralianSuper to cut equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
... or about 30% of its asset pool internally, through an investment team that has 200 employees. A $1.5 million small caps mandate is among the latest of the fund's investments to be brought in-house, Rainmaker research shows. "When we hire a manager ...

Chief economist update: Australia's low(er)-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
... (RBA) Governor Philip Lowe put it, likely "be up, rather than down"? To answer this, we have to look at the RBA's mandate of full employment and meeting an "agreed medium-term inflation target" of between 2% and 3%. Although we cannot completely ...