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Northern Trust AM's stellar year

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2021
Northern Trust Asset Management's local business swelled its client assets by 70% last year as it added four new institutional mandates. The business has been in Australia for about five years, and currently employs seven people with another hire ...

QSuper pokes holes in YFYS legislation

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021
... QSuper said this test needs to use better benchmarks and risk-adjusted returns (adding volatility, Sharpe ratio). "The asset class benchmarks may be constraining, and we suggest broadening the adopted benchmarks to better align with a fund's objectives ...

APRA gains traction on superannuation data project

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021
The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority has released its final reporting standards for the first phase of the Superannuation Data Transformation (SDT) as it looks to clear out underperformers. Phase one addresses the most urgent gaps in APRA's ...

Australians bullish on 2021 recovery

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
Australians are bullish about the recovery of the local economy and the positive effect that will have on their portfolios, a survey canvassing investors across the Asia Pacific shows. More than half of the investors canvassed in PIMCO's quarterly investor ...

Cboe acquires Chi-X

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAR 2021
... acquisition of Chi-X Asia Pacific, we continue to execute on our growth strategy by broadening our geographic and asset class presence, while enabling the further extension of our product offerings to our global network of customers," Cboe chair, president ...

AustralianSuper adds gold ETF to menu

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
... since it was added to the menu. "Current fund inflows to GOLD have been in keeping with the global interest in this asset class and strong pricing. While gold prices have eased off (to an extent off the back of vaccines prospects), gold has a valuable ...

KKR names local real estate head

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAR 2021
The global investment firm has appointed the former LOGOS Group chief executive as managing director and head of Australia and New Zealand real estate, as it expands its strategy across the Asia region. Tom Lee was chief executive of logistics property ...

Perpetual's Garry Laurence starts boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
... buy a 75% stake in the latter. Laurence received an AFSL for his new boutique last month and is now raising for a "founder class" of units in his global equities strategy. The boutique is called Profeta Investments, after an old family name that means ...

ANZ, CBA settle class action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2021
ANZ and Commonwealth Bank (CBA) have both reached an agreement to settle a class action in the US related to the trading of bank bill swap (BBSW) products in 2016. The class action commenced in 2016 in the United States District Court for the Southern ...

Buffett doesn't want to report on diversity, climate

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2021
Berkshire Hathaway is urging shareholders to vote against two separate proposals urging the firm to disclose its climate-related risks and diversity metrics. Berkshire Hathaway Inc's annual meeting is scheduled for May 1. Proxy voting directions filed ...