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New super fund targets millennials

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... Financial Standard revealed its plans last week. The group insurer for the fund is Hannover Re and the fund managers mandated so far are Nanuk Asset Management and Alphinity. Aracon Superannuation is the trustee. Rainmaker analysis of the Elevate product ...

Chief economist update: Happy New Year rat

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
"Gong xi fa cai"! China celebrates its lunar new year on January 25 this year, bidding farewell to the "pig" and welcoming the 'Year of the Rat'. Beijing has every reason to be optimistic. Derogatory as it may seem to be called "a rat", this ...

Analysts remain wary as ASX breaks 7000

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... local fundamentals. "Australia's market has been pulled along by the global optimism, even though local fundamentals are far more challenging," he said. "Australia's economic and corporate earnings outlook appears relatively weak compared to ...

Cbus head of advice launches firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... other than intra-fund advice and it could be treated as fees for no service but ASIC hasn't held them to account for it so far," he said. He says the Cbus referral program was one way that superannuation funds could overcome the peril of cross-subsidisation. ...

Chief economist update: Phase one deal signed, sealed and delivered

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... Zhengsheng Zhong, Director of Macroeconomic Analysis at CEBM Group, nominates as "a major hurdle to stabilizing the economy". So far so good for China. The Caixin China composite PMI eased to a reading of 52.6 in December from November's 21-month ...

PIMCO a hit with Aussie instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... 14% share and BlackRock a roughly 6% share of the market for new institutional money in the year. Some boutiques were not far behind, with Bennelong's Aussie equities boutique Touchstone Asset Management raising $1.6 billion, Melbourne boutique Yarra ...

Franklin Templeton veteran readies two funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 JAN 2020
... owned by staff but Franklin Resources (Franklin Templeton's parent company) has a stake. It has raised US $4 billion so far. Nearly half of the externally-sourced assets are from Australian investors, where it manages money for a few superannuation ...

Geared super funds hit jackpot

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... Rainmaker head of superannuation research Jason Ross described the results as "fairly spectacular". "Geared funds provide a far higher risk for investors. During bull runs these returns are exponential, essentially resulting in a compounding effect," ...

LGIAsuper offloads European assets

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
The European real estate manager for LGIAsuper has sold-off two of its property assets in Paris and Copenhagen, raking in a nice $36.5 million for the Queensland-based super fund. Europa Capital sold its Semaphore investment, an office building west ...

Ellerston hires from Colonial First State

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
The Sydney boutique has hired from Colonial First State to appoint its lead for key accounts and research relationships. Lisa Rose joined Ellerston Capital as its head of key accounts and research relationships in December. In her most recent role ...