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Pension fund eyes Fairfax Media

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
A Canadian pension fund has made a play at acquiring selected Fairfax Media assets, joining forces with private equity firm TPG as part of an investment consortium. Fairfax confirmed today that the board of the $175 billion Ontario Teachers' Pension ...

Budget Eve

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
One day, nine hours, 13 minutes, and 55 seconds. This is the time remaining (and counting down) before us, Australians all, find out what the government has in store for us when it releases the Budget Papers 2017-18 at approximately 7.30pm (AEST) on ...

Fund managers on fixed income recruitment drive

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
Both AMP Capital and Vanguard are ramping fixed income 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 ...

Beware the volatility trap: AB

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2017
Disregarding benchmarks through an upside/downside capture strategy can help investors manage volatility risk while still achieving healthy returns. Launching a new white paper on how defensive strategies can benefit Australian equity investors, AllianceBernstein ...

Sunsuper puts adviser trust front and centre

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017
When it comes to offering advice and helping people achieve financial goals, trust is the game changer according to $40 billion super fund Sunsuper. At an exclusive adviser workshop in Brisbane, Sunsuper's head of advice and retail distribution Anne ...

Platinum slashes fees ahead of ETMF launch

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
Platinum Asset Management is revamping its management fee structure before the ASX debut of two new exchange-traded actively-managed funds (ETMFs). The standard management fees on Platinum's Trust Funds and Global Fund (PGF) have been reduced from 1.5% ...

RF Capital appoints new retail distribution head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
RF Capital welcomed the former head of distribution for Australian Unity to its ranks at the beginning of the year. Damen Purcell, who left Australian Unity in December 2016, is the new head of retail distribution at RF Capital, the asset management ...

Sunrise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 21 APR 2017
The headline number is not that great. Aside from beating market expectations for ¥575.8 billion surplus, Japan's trade balance showed that the surplus decreased to ¥614.7 billion in March from ¥813.4 billion in the previous month and 17.4% less ...

Smarter Money funds get Lonsec tick

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 20 APR 2017
Two Smarter Money Investments funds have been given a "recommended" rating by Lonsec. The Smarter Money Active Cash (SMAC) strategy was upgraded from "investment grade" by Lonsec as a result of the research house's "high regard for the fund's senior ...

AMP Capital awards historic $17bn passive mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
AMP Capital has awarded a passive suite of mandates collectively representing $17 billion, the largest mandate awarded by a fund manager since the $10.8 billion awarded to RARE Infrastructure by Pacific Current Group in 2006. UBS explained to Financial ...