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Sovereign investors change tack: Invesco

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2018
... changing role for equities in their asset allocation. 47% of APAC investors expected to decrease equity holdings over the next few years (versus 37% among all respondents globally), and only 13% expect to increase exposure (versus 25% among global respondents). ...

Managed accounts expert expands new platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... industry that I'm excited to be demonstrating to advisers and institutions," he said. Spitfire also launched a super fund a few months ago - Spitfire Super has a diversified portfolio and invests in agricultural assets. While it is in its early days ...

EM bonds attractive despite pullback: Eaton Vance

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2018
... unwinds its balance sheet and gradually hikes rates. US GDP growth has been slow and steady, averaging around 2% the past few years," she said. "In EM, the picture is quite different. Many individual countries are growing fast, and most central banks ...

ESG considerations material to long-term success

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... AI and technological advances and other such ESG risks are being managed. "Given the breadth of what constitutes ESG risks, few companies are immune from the fact that some of these risks are material to the ongoing success of the business."

Chief economist update: Minutes of concerns

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... spending. Participants generally continued to see recent fiscal policy changes as supportive of economic growth over the next few years, and a few indicated that fiscal policy posed an upside risk. A few participants raised the concern that fiscal policy ...

Chief economist update: Steady at 24 and counting

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2018
... further steps in this direction are expected") to "the direction of international trade policy in the US" and "strains in a few emerging market economies, largely for country-specific reasons." But its prognosis for Australia's domestic economy is ...

Absolute returns core to building wealth: ARCO chair

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
... that core depending on your risk preference might be 20%, or it might be 60% in absolute return strategies - and then take a few riskier positions in the margins on the basis that if they work well, you gain value and if they don't work well, they don't ...

Chief economist update: RBA not cruising for a bruising

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
... decline while those of Melbourne's have started to fall - down 0.6% from a 2.6% increase in the December 2017 quarter. A few more quarters like this and Houston, we'll get a rate cut. However, Governor Lowe's recent statement at the central bankers' ...

Technical Services Forum looks at tax and aged care

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2018
... 50 included technical services managers, compliance officers, professional standards officers, analysts, paraplanners and a few financial advisers and planners. IOOF senior technical services manager Linda Bruce presented the audience with a challenging ...

HUB24 launches portfolio management tool

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... the tool is a "unique solution that had the potential to improve portfolio performance for clients, especially in the first few years they are invested." "Managers receiving new inflows from investors normally have to buy all the holdings to match the ...