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Coolabah Capital hires former Energy Super chair

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
Coolabah Capital is growing its boutique fixed-income business with a new non-executive director and portfolio manager. Joining as non-executive director is Bob Henricks, who chaired Energy Super for 20 years. Ashley Kabel, meanwhile, joins as a portfolio ...

PIMCO launches ESG bond fund

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... is overseen by both PIMCO managing director and chief executive of global fixed income Andrew Balls and portfolio manager Alex Struc. PIMCO head of Australia and New Zealand Adrian Stewart said the new offering came about due to growing demand for ESG ...

Family office manager expands

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 APR 2017
... billion, Sydney-based Atrium Investment Management said the hires would provide diverse skills and experience. Chief executive Alex Hone said the firm's focus remains on identifying and attracting key investors and continuing to deliver their portfolios' ...

CBA spearheads push for quantum computing

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
CBA is rolling out a simulation of a theoretical quantum computer to demonstrate how it could revolutionise banking and other industries. Unlike a traditional computer, where data is encoded into a binary system of zeroes and ones (bits), a quantum ...

Morningstar downgrades Franklin Templeton parent rating

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
Morningstar has downgraded its parent pillar assessment for Franklin Templeton US funds from positive to neutral following concerns about "massive outflows" and an "investment culture given to complacency," according to senior analyst Alec Lucas. The ...

Vanguard appoints three distribution heads

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
Vanguard internally appointed three new heads of its distribution team. Matt Willis has become head of institutional, having previously been national sales manager - adviser, regional sales manager - northern, and business development manager. Rebecca ...

First Super halts private equity investments

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
First Super will make no new investments in its private equity program as its existing $100 million private equity portfolio is under review. This is being done, the fund said, due to concerns about poor labour practices exhibited by companies in which ...

Singapore fintech shutters Australian business

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
A Singapore-based fund manager and crowdfunding platform will cease its Australian operations less than a year after listing on the ASX. CoAssets, which was admitted to the ASX last August, specialises in crowdfunding investment services for small-to-medium ...

Hunter Hall LIC chair ousted

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
The chair of Hunter Hall Global Value (HHV) has been removed from the board following a tense extraordinary general meeting yesterday. In February, Wilson Asset Management chair Geoff Wilson lodged a requisition of shareholdings meeting to remove HHV's ...

Infratil sells $237m aged care stake to investment bank

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 7 APR 2017
Infratil disposed of its 19.91% stake in a leading provider of New Zealand aged care facilities, netting $237.93 million via an off-market block trade. The stake in Metlifecare, sold to New Zealand-based investment bank Forsyth Barr for $5.61 per share ...