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Watermark pulls out of global equities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
... its renewed focus on Australian shares, the boutique hedge fund manager made a series of appointments in late 2018. In October, Daniel Broeren was appointed senior investment analyst for consumer, retail and gaming. He is a former portfolio manager of ...

UniSuper awards fixed income mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
... 101 Collins Street in Melbourne which also houses Goldman Sachs and J.P. Morgan. JCB took up a quarter of a floor. In October, it started using Bloomberg's Asset and Investment Manager (AIM) and portfolio and risk analytics (PORT) solutions. In December ...

Chief economist update: Crude oil to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... easing inflation pressure. Crude oil prices have dropped. After peaking at a four-year high of US$86.07/barrel (Brent) in October 2018, prices tumbled by 41.2% to US$50.57/barrel by year's end. Brent oil prices have risen by 19.7% since the start ...

Future Fund investment specialist joins Funds SA

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
A Future Fund private equity investment director has joined Funds SA in a role that opened up in October. Cameron Sinclair joined Funds SA as the director of growth alternatives, a role where he responsible for more than $3 billion in assets. Sinclair ...

AustralianSuper consortium ups bid for Navitas

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... would value the education services provider at $2.08 billion. This new price is 32.5 cents higher than the consortium's October and November bids which the Navitas board then said undervalued the company. It is also 34% higher than the stock's close ...

Xinja funds platform for growth

OSKAH DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2019
... continued to remain strong from previous and new investors who were keen to know when the next raise would be," he said. In October 2018, Xinja announced Brett King, former White House and US Federal Reserve adviser under President Barack Obama, had ...

Poor equities performance sees MySuper suffer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... November 2018. This was a fall of a further 1.1 percentage points from the 12-month average return seen at the end of October, analysis from Rainmaker shows. The low returns are largely attributed to poor performance in equity markets; Australian and ...

Chief economist update: The curse of Japan's consumption tax hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... better, real wages jumped by 1.1% over the same period - the first increase in four months and follows a 0.1% decline in October. However, the improvement in real wages is as much due to the increase in nominal pay as well as the recent retreat in Japanese ...

ANZ, IOOF revise wealth sale agreement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... business. A further provision will see the annual coupon rate of 14.4% on the debt note subscribed by IOOF from ANZ in October 2018 be paid until the successor fund transfer is completed. ANZ currently expects this to occur by 1 July 2019. "The contract ...

AAT upholds AFSL rejection

OSKAH DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2019
... license to provide advice for self-managed superannuation funds and other financial products in June 2016. However, in October 2017, ASIC ruled Watson failed to provide relevant information for his application to be processed. It was found that Watson ...