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Pendal Group appoints international business lead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... management. Earlier in her career, Altinger was an equity research analyst at John Hancock in Boston and worked in Japanese equities research sales for Goldman Sachs in Tokyo and London. In her new role, Altinger will report to Gonzalez and be a member ...

Cooper Investors launches equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 JUL 2019
The $13.5 billion Melbourne equities boutique has launched its first fund in five years, after running the strategy internally for over two years with a 16% plus annualised gross return. Cooper Investors said its new Global Endowment Fund will hold ...

Mercer unveils best-performing Aussie equity funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
Mercer has named the top-performing Australian equities funds for the 2019 financial year. Mercer's latest Investment Survey found Martin Currie's Australia Real Income strategy delivered 18.8% in the year to June 2019. BlackRock Equitised Long ...

Paradice hires from Pengana

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... has also added a new strategy in recent weeks, its first Australian fund since 2007. The Paradice Long Short Australian Equities Fund will invest in companies listed on or to be listed on the ASX and NZX. It will be managed by Troy Angus, David Moberley ...

Super funds keen on alternatives managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... 12 months ending 31 December 2019. Of the total mandates appointed, 44% were for alternatives strategies, 30% was for equities, 14% for bonds/cash mandates and 12% for property mandates. "The medium run trend is for a slightly increasing proportion of ...

Irish pension funds reduce equity exposure

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
According to Mercer, Irish pension schemes are reducing their exposure to equities and diversifying into property, infrastructure and hedge funds instead. Mercer's 2019 European Asset Allocation survey also shows average equity allocations for Irish ...

Perpetual Investments leaks $1.1bn

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... Perpetual's funds management business reported net outflows of $1.1 billion for the three months to June, with its Australian equities strategies taking the hardest blow. The value manager's Australian equities strategies recorded a net outflow of $1.2 ...

Investment bank names new APAC markets head

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... Pacific, who will take on the role in addition to his current role. Barclays announced Matt Pecot, who is currently head of equities for Asia Pacific, is taking on the new role. He will continue to be based in Hong Kong. As head of markets, he will report ...

ETFs cross $50bn, fixed income leads

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... the $2.7 billion in the first half last year. For the first time, fixed income ETFs overtook the dominant international equities products in inflows, bringing about $1.38 billion to the latter's $1.32 billion. Commodities ETFs recorded outflows of $12.69 ...

Beyond the China A shares hype

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
As major indices increasingly broaden accessibility to Chinese equities, one emerging markets specialist argues investing in the country goes beyond index inclusion. The landmark move by MSCI last year opened the floodgates to the once-difficult-to-access ...