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Fund manager chief steps down, appoints investment director

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017
... recently he was the chief investment officer leading a team of analysts and portfolio managers across Australian and fixed income directly invested portfolios. For the most part of his time at ANZ Wealth, Cook was the head of portfolio management for ...

Fixed income manager opens Australian office

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
A European fixed income and active management specialist has opened an Australian office. BlueBay Asset Management appointed Ciaran McAssey to head its new Melbourne office. He has worked at the firm for more than five years and is currently head of ...

Passive versus active is crippling: QIC

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
Active and passive fixed income investing are complementary, not at logger-heads, and serve different purposes within portfolios and in different market conditions, according to QIC. In a new paper the investment management giant explores the debate ...

BNY Mellon subsidiary makes local and global hires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... Separately, Adam Kibble will join Insight's Sydney team as a product specialist covering currency, multi-asset and fixed income. Kibble spent more than 15 years with Macquarie Funds Management, focused on fixed income, currency and commodities and had ...

Merged asset manager appoints Australian leadership

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... business. Aberdeen Standard employs more than 70 staff in Sydney and Melbourne who support and oversee local equities, fixed income and infrastructure capabilities. "The merger presents compelling opportunities for both clients and colleagues. Our clients ...

Hedging strategies protecting members' assets: NAB

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... use an asset manager or bank to provide this service, while 15% look to an independent provider. NAB director of fixed income currencies and commodities Emma Lawson said: "The environment in which funds operate is evolving quickly, incorporating more ...

Global reinsurer adopts ESG framework

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 24 JUL 2017
... social and governance criteria into its investment decisions through the use of the equity MSCI ESG Index and the fixed income Bloomberg Barclays MSCI Corporate Sustainability Index. The company said it is convinced that accounting for ESG considerations ...

Vanguard global chief executive steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
... to continuing to work closely with McNabb over the next six months to transition to his new role. Global head of fixed income Greg Davis has been promoted to chief investment officer and responsible for $3.8 trillion in assets managed by the fixed income ...

China awards private fund license to $900bn manager

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUL 2017
... the Asset Management Association of China (AMAC). The AMAC license will allow UBS Asset Management to offer onshore fixed income, equities and multi-asset private funds to high-net-worth and institutional Chinese investors. It complements UBS AM's existing ...

Transport bolsters listed infrastructure demand

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
... this asset class, he added. Globally, Meyer is increasingly seeing institutional clients replace part of their old fixed income allocation with liquid infrastructure, explaining part of its appeal is it isn't correlated economic market cycles. Generally ...