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Morningstar names best performing funds in 2018

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
Boutiques dominated Morningstar's list of best performing investment strategies for Aussie institutional investors, outstripping the median managers in their asset classes. Platypus, ECPAM and Hyperion were the best performing Australian shares strategies ...

KPMG hires legal services partner

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 JAN 2019
KPMG's Australian legal advisory business has hired a partner from Norton Rose Fulbright to work with financial services companies. Zein El Hassan is the 19th partner on the KPMG Law Australia team. He will report to the team's head Stuart Fuller. El ...

Retail investors see limited upside in 2019

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
Retail investors predict the trajectory of the local share market will be flat in 2019, but expect to be rewarded with modest returns, Investment Trends' latest survey shows. The 2195 investors canvassed in the monthly Investor Intentions Index ...

Where UniSuper sees market opportunities

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 31 DEC 2018
UniSuper chief investment officer John Pearce spoke to Financial Standard earlier this month about market opportunities, building the fund's in-house investment team and CIPRs. Pearce said the fund doesn't particularly see a need to pull back ...

Super funds wield bank remuneration stick

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
The first strikes against executive remuneration at ANZ, NAB and Westpac recently show Australia's superannuation funds are cutting through when it comes to shareholder voting prowess. NAB recorded the highest ever vote (88%) against a remuneration ...

Industry fund awards $180m fixed income mandate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
A $7 billion industry superannuation fund awarded a $180 million fixed income mandate to a US-based fund manager. Energy Super, a superannuation fund managing the retirement savings of about 47,000 Australians, awarded the fixed income mandate to Payden ...

Chief economist update: ECB bids farewell to QE

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2018
The European Central Bank (ECB) delivered on its promise. While it kept interest rates unchanged - repo rate at 0%; deposit facility rate at -0.4%; marginal lending facility rate at 0.25% - at its December 13 Governing Council meeting, it also confirmed ...

Responsible investing rises on advice agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
The proportion of financial advisers who advise on responsible investing has almost doubled in the past two years, the latest industry survey reveals. The Investment Trends 2018 Adviser Product and Marketing Needs Report, which surveyed 766 Australian ...

Schroders hires former Hunter Hall portfolio manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2018
The global manager with $39 billion of Aussie investor money has added to its Sydney-based investment team, including a former Hunter Hall portfolio manager. Schroders is welcoming Sebastian Mullins as a portfolio manager on the multi-asset team. Also ...

Bentham AM launches mFund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 DEC 2018
Richard Quin's Bentham Asset Management is launching a new mFund for its asset-backed securities (ABS) strategy as the boutique ramps up the distribution for the $130 million strategy. The now $8 billion boutique broke away from the Sydney offices ...