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Climate change a real risk for investors: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2018
Climate change is a growing concern for the majority of investors polled in Financial Standard's latest survey. Despite investors' worry, Australia's top companies are failing to improve climate risk disclosures. Seventy-one per cent of respondents ...

Good Super partners for Dump Trump investment option

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
Good Super is partnering with a US-based investment adviser to launch a suite of new investment options for members, including "Dump Trump" and "Boycott Adani." OpenInvest will provide advisory services for the new options, which Good Super said will ...

Watermark LIC chair resigns to launch new business

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... more than $90 million at an offer price of $1.10 per share. The fund uses long and short positions in a global equity portfolio to deliver a fully market neutral strategy, and aims to deliver 10% over all market cycles. "For an alternative strategy in ...

LGIAsuper bolsters infrastructure investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
LGIAsuper is ramping up its stake in infrastructure investments, adding a regional port to its portfolio. LGIAsuper increased its interest in the Port of Portland to 31%, a deep-water facility located between Melbourne and Adelaide. One of its investment ...

Tax strategies boost retirement savings: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 FEB 2018
... Parametric. The firm's latest research debunks the myth that trying to achieve tax efficiency within a super fund's equity portfolio is 'chasing fool's gold'. It largely quantifies savings of up to 7.2%, Parametric said. Researchers used two hypothetical ...

Global firm builds Aussie equities team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
A global investment manager appointed four new portfolio managers to its Australian equities team, joining from the likes of Vanguard, BlackRock and IFM Investors. Joining Invesco's Melbourne-based Invesco Quantitative Strategies (IQS) group are Neil ...

Vontobel expands distribution footprint

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JAN 2018
Fresh from winning an Australian fixed income mandate, Vontobel Asset Management has appointed a distribution specialist to strengthen its commitment to the local market. Andreas Faeste will be responsible for broadening the boutique investment manager's ...

First Aussie fixed income mandate for global manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
A global asset manager with Swiss heritage landed its first Australian fixed income mandate recently as a wealth management firm announced the latest additions to its multi-manager suite. Vontobel Asset Management will run an emerging markets debt mandate ...

DomaCom secures first integration

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
Fractional property investor DomaCom has announced its first integration, allowing financial advisers to automatically include DomaCom sub-fund investments in client reports. DomaCom has entered into an agreement to integrate its property sub-funds ...

Mainstream renews boutique fund administration mandate

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2017
Global fund administrator Mainstream Fund Services has renewed one of its long-standing mandates, allowing the firm to deliver fund administration services to an Australian boutique manager. Following a comprehensive review of operations, Mainstream ...