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Chief economist update: Time to pig out on China shares?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... buy Luxembourg and Greenland, plus change. These would provide extra underpinning to the recent bull market in Chinese equities - Shanghai composite index up 20.1% this year to date; CSI 300 index up 24.6%; SSE-A share index up 20.1%. Time to pig out ...

Colonial First State hires retail sales head

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
... Quirk moves into the role after Laird Abernethy left late last year. Abernethy is now the managing director at global equities boutique GQG Partners. In March last year, CFS also hired BT Financial Group's head of platforms Kelly Power as CFS's general ...

UniSuper makes two senior hires

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
... sustainable portfolios and governance. Heard was most recently a senior portfolio manager and research analyst at Australian Equities investment manager JCP Investment Partners. Prior to this, she held senior roles with Bank of America Merrill Lynch ...

ASX to sell IRESS investment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
... invested in IRESS's initial public offering in 2000 when both were predominantly focused on servicing the Australian equities market. "Since then, both businesses have successfully evolved and expanded," ASX managing director and chief executive Dominic ...

Chief economist update: Trump tweets bull market back into China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
... sent 2019's year-to-date return up by 18.7% - it dropped by 24.6% in 2018 - but more importantly, it brought Chinese equities back into a bull market. The Shanghai Composite index is now up 20.2% above its nearest low recorded just a few weeks before ...

Former Arnhem partners join boutiques

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
... capability for more than eight years. Maas joined Northcape Capital in December 2018 as a portfolio manager for global equities. Fleur Wright also joined the global equity team in August 2018, following a 14-year tenure at UBS. She is the former managing ...

Pinnacle nears $50bn milestone

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
... September 2018. Pinnacle doesn't expect Firetrail's insto inflows to be substantial during the second half as the equities manager has largely reached capacity in both of its investment strategies. Retail FUM grew $1.5 billion during the period ...

Arming human traders for big-ticket trades

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
A new trading software is aiming to make life easier for asset managers trading large chunks of Australian equities, ETFs or futures. Liquidnet's new software, called Discovery, aims to give human traders the same level of analytics as accessible to ...

Ausbil launches dividend income fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
The $11 billion equities manager has launched a fund that will invest in S&P/ASX 200 companies with the aim of paying monthly distributions. The Ausbil Active Dividend Income fund will generate dividend income through cyclical opportunities, earning ...

Prime Value recruits former super fund chief

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2019
... Value is part of an investment group that includes Shakespeare Property Group, managing more than $1.5 billion across equities, cash plus, direct property and agriculture investment. Last year Financial Standard to spoke to chief investment officer and ...