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Inflation to retreat in 2022: Fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
Investors should not fear high levels of inflation as it will diminish by the end of 2022, one fund manager predicts. T. Rowe Price portfolio specialist Laurence Taylor forecasts that inflation will peak but will also fade in the same year. The combination ...

Christian Super hires former Mercer executive

ELIZABETH FRY  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
Christian Super has hired industry heavyweight David Stuart as investment chief, replacing Mark Rider who last month resigned to take up a similar role in the newly merged LGIAsuper and Energy Super. Stuart joins Christian Super following his most recent ...

Insto investors tempted by crypto

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
A new study shows close to 80% of institutional investors and wealth managers are now looking favourably upon cryptocurrencies, citing strong capital growth and diversification benefits. Commissioned by digital assets hedge fund manager Nickel Digital ...

Record inflows for HUB24

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
HUB24 has reported record platform inflows for the December quarter of the financial year. HUB24 saw platform net inflows of $3.6 billion during the quarter, including $349 million transitioned from externally administered legacy IOOF private labels ...

Investment strategy lead joins Firetrail fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
Firetrail Investments has appointed Anthony Doyle as head of investment strategy for a recently launched fund. The Firetrail S3 Global Opportunities Fund was launched in November 2021 and invests in both developed and emerging markets. Doyle is set ...

Investors dig deeper for alternative assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
The hunt for yield has prompted investors to turn to new asset classes within the alternatives sector, according to Preqin. Disappointing returns from traditional assets such as office, retail and industrial have also forced investors to look to other ...

Water, water everywhere but nothing to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
Another two covid years over, a new one's just begun. Although still not proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, since the first bat flapped its covid wings in Wuhan (China), it has gone through several mutations - most notably, Alpha, Delta and now Omicron ...

Australian billionaires double fortunes during pandemic: Oxfam

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
The wealth of Australia's 47 billionaires has doubled to $255 billion in the last two years, according to anti-poverty charity Oxfam. A briefing published today by Oxfam, Inequality Kills, has warned of the deadly nature of the world's growing ...

YFYS could dampen ESG adoption: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
The Your Future, Your Super reforms could potentially threaten the adoption of sustainable investing strategies, new research from Parametric shows. Parametric's analysis focused on super fund portfolio tracking error, which is a key driver of YFYS ...

Not all tech created equal: Principal

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2022
With a surge of US tech stocks on the rise, Principal Global Investors (PGI) chief strategist Seema Shah stresses the need to be discerning when evaluating them. A jump in bond yields has seen technology stocks become collateral damage and underperforming ...