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Industry fund hires new product lead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2019
... senior product manager at ANZ and almost two years at MetLife in various roles. Woodrow worked for Perpetual for almost a decade in product management. NGS Super chief executive Laura Wright said: "Quyen brings with her to NGS both breadth and depth ...

Colonial First State launches new fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... World Index benchmark) from December, 2015 inception to June end. CFS and Gifford have a partnership spanning more than a decade, starting when CFS appointed it the Scottish manager to its FirstChoice multi-manager portfolios. The two launched a long-term ...

Chief economist update: Beam us up Scotty

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 OCT 2019
... five years ago and over 6% 10-years before. Even yields on BBB-rated corporates are down to a little over 2% from 10% a decade ago. According to Elliott, the cost of capital should have been lowered "to around 8%" - clearly a lower hurdle rate for businesses ...

Whistleblower calls out approved product lies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2019
A new paper on the consumer impact of Approved Product Lists (APLs) claims institutionally-aligned Australian Financial Services Licensees (AFSLs) are funneling new clients into in-house products, potentially in breach of Best Interest Duty obligations. ...

No room for policy mistakes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
... economy. "This widespread deceleration means that growth this year will fall to its lowest rate since the beginning of the decade," Georgieva said. This coincided with the World Bank's warning that: "If the trade conflict worsens and causes a slump ...

FS Power50 highlights most influential advisers in 2019

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
... list - of the Power50, 18 have more than 20 years of experience in the industry and 43 have been advising for more than a decade. Ten of the 50 operate in practices with more than 150 advisers, while 17 work alongside 10 or less advisers. This year's ...

Hong Kong hedge funds suffering: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 21 OCT 2019
... continue in Hong Kong, hedge funds based in the region have seen the first negative net outflows recorded by the industry in a decade. Small to medium-sized funds, overseeing up to US$500 million in assets, have "bore the brunt" of investor outflows ...

Next decade of defined contributions crucial: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2019
New research from the Thinking Ahead Institute indicates that the next 10 years of defined contributions will be crucial to the development of retirement systems all around the world. The Thinking Ahead Institute, which is based in London, said that ...

First Sentier bolsters responsible investment team

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 OCT 2019
... and relevance of its investment capabilities for the benefit of clients. "This approach is rigorously informed by over a decade of experience in striving to understand how ESG issues impact long-term investment returns," he said.

One in three chance of global recession: Aviva

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2019
... global growth to remain below 3% over the next 18 months. "That would represent the weakest sustained period for over a decade. We expect all major economies to be growing below potential in 2020, with unemployment likely to rise modestly and wage and ...