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CIO says low bond market rates to continue

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2015
Western Asset Management chief investment officer Ken Leech believes the bond market will have reasonably low rates for longer than market participants thought at the beginning of 2015. Leech said the normalising of interest rates by the US Federal ...

Aussie fintechs sell to grow

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
More than 30 Australian and New Zealand financial technology start-ups have put their case forward as to how they can progress the digital expansion of financial services. Speaking in front of prominent investors and industry professionals at the Afiniation ...

Super funds under growing global pressure to divest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2015
Funds worth $3.3 trillion have divested from fossil fuel only in the last year. Fossil free activists are not "crazy loonies," but a well-coordinated global movement that is now targeting Australia's superannuation funds. Go Fossil Free, a divestment ...

Aberdeen beefs up local distribution team

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2015
Aberdeen Asset Management has added an investment specialist to its distribution team. Josh Hall joins the fund manager from AMP Capital where he was senior product solutions manager for two and a half years. Hall has a range of experience in Australian ...

Speculation springs eternal

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2015
"Suspense is worse than disappointment." -Robert Burns From today, we're getting more of it after Janet and her bunch of merry FOMC members decided to treat us - or prolong our agony, depending on which side of the fence one sits - to more of the same. ...

VicSuper awards $100m corporate bonds mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
VicSuper has awarded a $100 million investment mandate to a fixed income manager to invest in diversified Australian corporate loans. Metrics Credit Partners will manage the mandate, which falls under VicSuper's domestic fixed interest strategy. The ...

Blue Sky adds maths software company

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
Blue Sky Private Equity has made a multi-million investment for a significant minority share of education technology company ORIGO Education, which provides cloud-based primary school mathematics software. The capital will allow the company, which was ...

UBS hires Zenith, BlackRock senior execs

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
UBS Global Asset Management has expanded its team in Australia with the appointment of a fixed income investment specialist from Zenith and a national sales manager from BlackRock. Jonathan Baird will join UBS's Sydney fixed income team as investment ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
Magellan Financial Group has outgrown its 1960s office block on Sydney's Castlereagh Street and co-founder Hamish Douglass is looking for new premises. But the manager of the highly successful Magellan Global Fund is worried the sites he's been shown ...

Aussie super funds in top 100

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
UniSuper has crept in to the world's top 100 retirement savings funds, joining four Australian counterparts in the annual list compiled by Pensions & Investments magazine and Towers Watson. The P&I/Towers Watson Global 300 list was launched today with ...