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Global manager launches ESG strategy

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
A global manager has launched a new strategy for that will invest in listed companies poised to benefit from the trend towards decarbonisation. Investec Asset Management's Global Environment Strategy aims to identify the businesses whose products ...

Stamford Capital expands into Victoria

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
The nine-year-old firm has opened a Melbourne office with a new director, as it scours Victoria for new commercial debt deals and high-net-worth and family office investors. Stamford Capital currently transacts capital from about 400 sophisticated investors ...

ASX to sell IRESS investment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
The ASX is offloading its entire stake in financial software company IRESS for $358 million with UBS managing the sale. ASX Limited invested in IRESS's initial public offering in 2000 when both were predominantly focused on servicing the Australian ...

Infrastructure fund plans SMSF raise

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2019
A fund that gives SMSFs and HNWs exposure to unlisted infrastructure assets like airports and toll roads is planning to raise $50 million in March. Former Telstra Super head of alternatives Nicole Connolly's Infrastructure Partners Investment Fund ...

Super fund awards real estate mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
An undisclosed superannuation fund recently seeded a new Australian-domiciled global real estate trust with a $128.5 million mandate. The Heitman Global Prime Real Estate Trust was launched in Australia this week with Equity Trustees winning the appointment ...

Chief economist update: Nerves of steel

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
Could it be? Could it be that Westpac's chief economist Bill Evans has just gotten one up on me? Nah Virginia, me don't want to "kill Bill", we economists may not see eye to eye but we stick together. More so that Bill's come around to my ...

SMSFA turns up the heat on franking debate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
Both sides of the franking credit debate were given air time during day one of the Self-Managed Superannuation Fund Association's national conference in Melbourne, but one dominated. Opposition to Labor's franking credits policy rose on the ...

Dutch insto opens Australian office

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
Global institutional manager Bouwinvest Real Estate Investors has opened an office in Sydney in a bid to take on the Asia Pacific market. APAC director Tjarko Edzes relocated from Amsterdam to spearhead Bouwinvest's presence in the region. He joined ...

Chief economist update: BOJ exit last year, BOJ easing this year

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
Japanese officials and investors must be wiping the sweats from their foreheads after the Cabinet Office released its latest National Accounts report and showed the country dodged a recession. Japanese GDP grew 0.3% in the December 2018 quarter following ...

Janus Henderson hires from CFSGAM

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2019
Janus Henderson Investors hired a new senior investment manager and promoted a portfolio manager within its global natural resources team. Tal Lomnitzer was appointed as senior investment manager, responsible for co-managing global natural resources ...