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Pengana recruits former AFL player

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAR 2018
... coming over from Equity and Super Private Asset Management, where he was an investment adviser. He was previously an associate adviser at Pitcher Partners and, before that, a professional AFL player with Hawthorn Football Club and the Brisbane Lions. ...

Chief economist update: Dot tales

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
And so it has come to pass. The US Federal Reserve did what was widely expected of it - it raised the fed funds rate target by 25 basis points to 1.5%-1.75% following its 20-21 March FOMC meeting. One sentence in the FOMC statement provides the underlying ...

Wealth firm appoints chief financial officer

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAR 2018
... positions with Energy Australia, Deloitte and Credit Suisse and was previously employed within the Austock Group as an associate in its corporate finance division. He has significant strategic, commercial and project finance experience, an ASX statement ...

MyRetirement products too pricey for super funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
Delay in progress on the development of MyRetirement (CIPRs) products may not be due to a lack of initiative from superannuation funds but rather reluctance around expenditure. A running point of discussion at the recent Conference of Major Superannuation ...

Chief economist update: Plotting the dots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
The Fed meets this week and it's almost as good as gold that it will announce another gentle 25 basis points hike, taking the fed funds rate to 1.5%-1.75% - CME FedWatch Tool has the probability of a rate hike at 94.4% - when the US central bank concludes ...

Acadian appoints investments head from SSGA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... manage a suite of long-only and long-short systematic domestic equity strategies. Acadian has also appointed Zhe Chen as associate portfolio manager, research. Chen joined Acadian from Macquarie, where he was a quant research analyst. Prior to that ...

Global asset manager rebrands

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
Natixis Asset Management will rebrand to Ostrum Asset Management as of April 3 in a bid to expand its partnerships and refocus its investment strategies. The move is part of the asset manager's European parent, Natixis Investment Managers, aligning ...

WAM LIC appoints director

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
A Wilson Asset Management listed investment company appointed a director to replace John Abernethy. Emma Rugge-Price will fill John Abernethy's spot on the board of WAM Active as a director; a position he held for 11 years. Abernethy joined listed investment ...

Acadian talks big data 2.0, launches A-shares strategy

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
Big data 2.0 remains in its early stages for quantitative asset managers as they attempt to be less dependent on history and evolve with more forward-looking risk considerations, especially around ESG and sustainable investing. This is the thoughts ...

Women-led super funds outperform again

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
Superannuation funds with significant levels of female leadership again outperformed funds dominated by men, and have increased their likelihood of doing so, Rainmaker research reveals. Rainmaker assessed 66 super funds to derive a W-index score and ...