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Centuria snaps up six industrial assets for $132m

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
... the assets capitalise on land constrained, urban infill markets that are in high demand from ecommerce operators seeking close proximity to densely populated areas to improve supply chain efficiencies. Among the "mixed bag" of acquisitions is an eight-hectare ...

Inflation to retreat in 2022: Fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
Investors should not fear high levels of inflation as it will diminish by the end of 2022, one fund manager predicts. T. Rowe Price portfolio specialist Laurence Taylor forecasts that inflation will peak but will also fade in the same year. The combination ...

Advice industry loses 800 over New Year period

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 JAN 2022
The exit of 807 advisers during the Christmas and New Year break leaves the total population close to dipping below the 18,000 mark. There are currently 18,015 practising financial advisers left, according to Rainmaker's modelling of the ASIC Financial ...

Former BT executive assumes CIO role

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 20 JAN 2022
The former investments chief of BT Financial Group and Suncorp has landed a new role at a $49 billon UK fund manager. Patrick Farrell is the new head of research and chief investment officer at Charles Stanley. Farrell was BTFG's chief investment officer ...

QIC adds new investment role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
... Whittaker is responsible for working on multi asset class portfolios with a range of QIC's Queensland government clients. He has close to 15 years' experience in portfolio management and investment strategy and has previously been directly responsible ...

Insto investors tempted by crypto

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
A new study shows close to 80% of institutional investors and wealth managers are now looking favourably upon cryptocurrencies, citing strong capital growth and diversification benefits. Commissioned by digital assets hedge fund manager Nickel Digital ...

Positive hiring outlook for 2022: Research

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
Australian business leaders are overwhelmingly confident about their growth prospects in the coming year, according to new research from Robert Half. The latest independent C-suite research indicates that almost three-out-of-four (71%) Australian business ...

AMP hires new head of portfolio management

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2022
AMP has appointed a new head of portfolio management for its troubled multi-asset group (MAG), hiring from Pendal. Stuart Eliot will step into the role, heading portfolio management for the $104 billion multi-asset investment arm of AMP. The MAG team ...

Credit Suisse chair resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
Credit Suisse's chair has resigned less than a year into the role amid reports he breached several COVID-19 quarantine rules. The Swiss bank announced overnight that Axel P. Lehmann has taken over as chair effective immediately, following an investigation ...

Water, water everywhere but nothing to drink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2022
Another two covid years over, a new one's just begun. Although still not proved beyond the shadow of a doubt, since the first bat flapped its covid wings in Wuhan (China), it has gone through several mutations - most notably, Alpha, Delta and now Omicron ...