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Registrations for 2016 Chief Economists Forum open

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2015
... take place in Melbourne on 2 February at Crown Towers and in Sydney on 4 February at the Westin Hotel. Principal Global Investors chief global economist Bob Baur, Australian Industry Group chief economist Julia Toth and RBC Capital Markets head of economics ...

Super fund chief in Paris for climate talks

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2015
... commitment and it has done since the 1990s. Put those three blocs together and you've got a good percentage of the world, in principal, ready to sign up." Pegan said post-Paris will be most important as nations and investors react. He said the Chinese ...

Perpetual grows global equities team

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... team as it looks to grow its global equities strategy. Tim Cheung joins from Morphic Asset Management, where he was principal and head of research. Cheung has 11 years' of equities experience in Australia and in the US. He is a Cantonese speaker and ...

Frontier Advisors appoints former Mercer principal

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2015
Frontier Advisors has attracted a former Mercer principal as a senior consultant amid plans to increase the independent firm's retirement solutions advice. Joining Frontier Advisors and leading its Retirement Solutions Group from 19 October will be ...

MySuper fees force super fund to exit high return strategy

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
The requirement to charge low fees under MySuper has forced one superannuation fund to exit a Principal Global Investments (PGI) strategy that had returned 13% over five years. PGI chief executive in Australia Grant Foster said that the super fund pulled ...

Wilson to raise $550m for philanthropic LIC

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... The board will also include Magellan Asset Management general manager of distribution Frank Casarotti; Cato Counsel principal Sue Cato; Federation Centres director Karen Penrose; Spark Infrastructure and Landcom director Sarah Morgan and Geoff Wilson. ...

Advisers waiting on the sidelines with smart beta

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... financial advisers are exercising caution and waiting for the market to develop further in Australia. Financial Keys principal, Mark Causer, told Financial Standard that he tends to recommend exchange traded funds (ETFs) to his clients, but that he is ...

Asset allocation is over, investors chase returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2015
... "bondification" of equities, a global report found. The 2015 CREATE-Research report commissioned by Principal Global Investors (PGI) found that 70% of institutional investors chase returns, not asset classes. Only 10% disagreed about this statement. ...

AustralianSuper, Brookfield in second US deal

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... Massachusetts) and Bethesda Crescent in Bethesda, MD. AustralianSuper was represented by Jim Halliwell and Dan Thornton at Principal Real Estate Investors.

ANALYSIS: The rise of the periphery

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2015
... anti-austerity parties are here to stay. "There is an anti-austerity backlash in Europe and it is normal," Tempo Asset Management principal Joe Bracken says. Years of ECB-driven austerity policies have angered citizens and this feeling is now being translated ...