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Stronger growth sans inflation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUL 2017
As if to further underscore the current growth/inflation conundrum, today's reports show continuing strengthening momentum in the world's major economies - one that quickly followed updates on consumer prices indicating not only that inflation remains ...

Ausbil adds key MicroCap team hires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
... Separately, Jan van der Schalk joins Ausbil from CLSA Australia where he was a senior analyst, ESG and diversified financials. Van der Schalk also brings a background in reinsurance, having previously served as chief executive, asset management and reinsurance ...

Latin America on institutional investment radar

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
... Index. Geographically Mexico makes up half of the investment portfolio. In terms of sectors, the fund is overweight financials (8.4%), healthcare (2.3%), industrials (2.9%), materials (2.4%) and telecom (0.3%).

Watermark market neutral LIC to launch buy-back

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2017
... performance was beset by unfavourable stock-picking conditions, value gains being offset by losses in resources and financials and "lack of exposure to the rising market in the second half of 2016." Having said this, Watermark noted that the market neutral ...

Fund managers on fixed income recruitment drive

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
... capabilities with new hires and job listings. On April 26, Andrea Jaehne joined AMP Capital as senior credit analyst, financials. She reports to acting head of credit Steven Hur, and will focus on bottom-up credit portfolio management. Before this role ...

Beware the volatility trap: AB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
... particularly important in Australia. Although there are 11 sectors here, two of them obviously dominate: materials and financials. Those two in isolation are almost half of our index, but they're also two of the most inherently volatile sectors so it's ...

MAX Awards launch Financial Literacy Campaign of the Year

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 6 APR 2017
This year's MAX Awards will feature a new category - the Financial Literacy Campaign of the Year - to recognise the crucial role the industry plays in furthering wealth education. The introduction of the new category coincides with the 25th anniversary ...

Watermark appoints two sector heads

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAR 2017
... Harza. Hamish Chalmers, meanwhile, joins Watermark from Och-Ziff Capital Management in London, where was a European financials sector analyst. He was also a senior research analyst at Macquarie. In his new role, he will cover the global financials sector. ...

Perennial portfolio manager leaves industry

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 20 MAR 2017
... responsibility for the Tony Oesterheld steels, utilities, building materials, miscellaneous industrials and diversified financials sectors. Before that, he was head of AMP's Value Plus team, and has also held roles at GIO Asset Management and QBE Insurance. ...

No such thing as a must own company: Analyst

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAR 2017
... underfunded pensions or healthcare entitlements," Goei said. "It's important to make these key adjustments to a company's financials to get a true picture of a business. In 2008, GM was really owned by retirees and its employees rather than shareholders." ...