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Gardior adds board directors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... in late 2018. Head of MIRA Australia Grant Smith and head of MIRA Asia-Pacific Frank Kwok joined the Gardior board in December 2019. Smith and Kwok now sit alongside QIEC Super chair Terry Burke, Sunsuper representative Andrew Agnew, former Energy Super ...

Crestone bolsters team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... also joined Crestone's Melbourne office from a previous role as investment adviser with CBA Private Office. Finally in December, Greg Tripis joined as investment adviser from a senior investment adviser position at CBA, along with Nick Mandie who was ...

Chief economist update: A busy 2020 for Abe, BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020
... indices point to persistent weakness with all three indices at contraction levels. The Composite PMI fell to 48.6 in December as manufacturing (48.4) and services (49.4) both weakened. The Bank of Japan and the Abe government will be trying to shore ...

Janus Henderson shuts down Aussie fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... officially terminated on October 31 and the windup concluded a month after. Final payments to investors were made on 2 December 2019, a local spokesperson for the company said. Last year, the fund manager's EM equities team led by Glen Finegan left ...

First Sentier hires AMP Capital portfolio manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... construction and day-to-day management of First Sentier's funds which had $3.5 billion in assets under management at December end. This includes the $1.4 billion CFS Wholesale Diversified fund and the $700 million plus conservative and balanced versions. ...

Geared super funds hit jackpot

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... returned 29.7%. According to Colonial First State's website, the fund achieved a 61.75% return for the 12 months to 31 December 2019. Additionally, CFS's data also shows its Colonial First State Wholesale Geared Global Property Securities option registered ...

Chief economist update: Brexit - the news that was

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 JAN 2020
... headed "Boris Johnson news: Brexit legislation passes Commons..." News? Brexit has become less of a news item since 12 December 2019 when the Conservatives won 365 seats -- majority of 80 seats, the largest since the 1987 polls - in the UK's 650-seat ...

2020: Year of the fragile economy

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... escalating tensions between Iran and the US in their global economic outlook for 2020, with the cut-off for forecasts set at December 20. Markets have been shaken by the recent hostilities, including a revenge-style attack by Iran on US military bases ...

Chief economist update: The rise and fall of oil

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JAN 2020
... oil-producing nations - termed "OPEC+" -- agreed to reduce production by around 500 kb/d (kilo barrels per day) to 2.1 mb/d on December 6 last year. The balance of probabilities points to continued oil price gains in 2020. In its latest Oil Market Report ...

Ellerston hires from Colonial First State

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JAN 2020
... research relationships. Lisa Rose joined Ellerston Capital as its head of key accounts and research relationships in December. In her most recent role, she was CFS's national manager, alliances and multi-manager. At Ellerston, she will report to Simon ...