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Ironbark, Zurich shutter funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2019
... weren't enough redeeming qualities to continue investing in the fund. It had a negative rating from the rating house. "In February 2019, the firm parted with chief investment officer and lead portfolio manager Kieren Callaghan less than a year after ...

Chief economist update: ECB digs deeper

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2019
... only 1.2% (from 1.8% previously) this year and 1.5% (from 1.6%) in 2020. HICP inflation stood at 1.5% in the year to February; core inflation at 1% - both below the ECB's 2% target. Fast forward to the present and we find that the ECB is again thinking ...

AMP overhauls wealth leadership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... during the Royal Commission. These revelations forced AMP's chief executive at the time Craig Meller to step down. In February this year, AMP chief executive Francesco De Ferrari made the first round of sweeping changes to the wealth manager's ...

Wealth heavyweights join FSC board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2019
... company since 2007, when he joined as deputy chief financial officer. He became Challenger chief financial officer in February 2012 and has worked in the role since. He previously spent time at Commonwealth Bank and MLC, where he was chief financial ...

Boutique fund manager appoints chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 APR 2019
... income strategy in the Mercer Survey of Australian Absolute Return funds over three and five years, as at the end of February 2019. Ardea is a part of Challenger's multi-boutique business Fidante Partners. Earlier this year, Tracy Kellett crossed ...

JPMorgan portfolio manager leaves

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... team in a very short time frame. Talib Sheikh, who had also comanaged this strategy since late 2012, resigned back in February 2018." Morningstar added it will "meet with Shah in the coming weeks to better understand how he intends to run the strategy ...

Chief economist update: China stitches it in time

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 2 APR 2019
... previous month and marks the first expansion in the sector that followed indications of contraction in December, January and February. For those who remain suspicious of Chinese stats, the Caixin China General Manufacturing PMI offers the same indication ...

Chief economist update: No credit to the RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... the slowing growth momentum in the domestic economy. Total private sector credit growth slowed to 4.2% in the year to February, down from 4.3% in the previous month - the fifth straight month of weakening growth and the slowest annual growth rate since ...

New board directors at Future Generation

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAR 2019
... Partners executive chair Scott Malcolm will resign from the board on May 23. The LIC had $476 million in gross assets at February end, charges no fees and has donated $12 million since its inception in September 2014. "The board of directors thanks Scott ...

ASIC dismisses Royal Commission insider trading reports

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2019
... Hayne's report. Senator Peter Whish-Wilson asked if ASIC was investigating "whether there was any irregular trading on 4 February 2019". ASIC responded to the question in a written statement saying it conducted a review of trading in the banking sector ...