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Economic recap: Week to August 20

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2021
... becomes actual tapering. Financial markets could be forgiven for taking risk off the table. As they did last week. Equity markets dropped. So did bond yields and commodity prices. The US dollar rose against major currencies, except for the safe haven ...

SelfWealth reports 135% revenue increase

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2021
... "This growth is due to both the increasing numbers of new investors wanting to grow their wealth by investing in equity markets, and also increasing numbers of existing investors switching from the bank aligned broking platforms to SelfWealth for lower ...

Active Super rejigs MySuper

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
... Lifecycle MySuper was a better bet than single strategy default funds for members below 40 years of age in FY21 as the equity markets rebounded after COVID, according to Rainmaker Information. Rainmaker's Lifecycle Index beat its Single Strategy ...

BNP Paribas wins China custody agreement

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2021
... complements our cross-border product offering and will help to attract even more foreign investment into China's bond and equity markets, which are fast becoming amongst the most important markets globally," BNP Paribas China Limited chief executive ...

Lifecycle MySuper outperforms single strategy

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2021
... Lifecycle MySuper was a better bet than single strategy default funds for members below 40 years of age in FY21 as the equity markets rebounded after COVID, according to Rainmaker Information. Rainmaker's Lifecycle Index beat its Single Strategy MySuper ...

Acadian launches multi-asset fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021
... Multi-Asset Class Strategies team Ilya Figelman said. The strategy is implemented via long/short positions across equity markets, bonds, FX, volatility and over 25 underlying commodities. Acadian noted that portfolio construction assesses the complexity ...

HUB24 appoints chief product officer, director

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2021
... distribution and investor relations at Ellerston Capital. Kovacs also spent seven years at Macquarie as division director, equity markets group and two years at Bankers Trust as vice president, equity derivative sales. She is currently a non-executive ...

ASIC drops Regal action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... Trustees as the responsible entity requested trading be halted on Regal Investment Fund. "As an active participant in equity markets, we acknowledge the important role that ASIC plays in ensuring the proper function and performance of the Australian ...

L1 Capital launches activist fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... and Europe. "L1 Capital believes that there is a huge opportunity in Australia for investor-led stewardship in equity markets, particularly given that more corporate ownership has shifted to passive index funds," he said. The fund is targetting institutional ...

Investors move to thematic funds

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUN 2021
... themed products were all popular with investors. Globally, over two thirds of thematic funds outperformed global equity markets as at March 2021, however performance dwindles to just 22% of thematic funds over a 15-year period, which Morningstar said ...