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Paradice Investments sales lead takes new role

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... delighted to have him on board," Clothier said. This is the multi-boutique's third distribution hire in recent months. In December, Copia hired Mani Papakonstantinos from SG Hiscock. Matt Roberts also joined from IOOF in February. Another hire is ...

Macquarie chief executive on striking a balance

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... companies risk building a smaller, more constricted culture. She took over as the chief executive of Macquarie Group in December last year. This makes her one of only 14 female chief executives heading an ASX200 company. She almost made the Fortune's ...

Chief economist update: European Central Bank policy U-turn

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2019
... president Mario Draghi. About two months after the ECB ended QE - its â,¬2.6 trillion asset purchase programme on 31 December 2018 - it's launched TLTRO III, for the same reasons the ECB chief listed - mainly slowing growth and inflation - following ...

Janus Henderson operations head departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... equities and Australian fixed interest, holding about $13 billion each in Australian sourced funds under management at December end, according to RainmakerLive. In January, Janus Henderson pulled out of Australian equities and started the process of ...

Australia in effective recession: Academic

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... Yesterday, the Australian Bureau of Statistics posted a 0.2% growth in gross domestic product for the three months to December 2018. Consumer spending grew at 0.4% in the quarter. GDP per capita shrunk in both Q3 and Q4. UNSW Business School's Richard ...

Chief economist update: Cash rate should be 1%

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2019
... time. The Australian Bureau of Statistics' (ABS) National Accounts report showed that GDP grew by a mere 0.2% in the December 2018 quarter from 0.3% in the previous three-month period, taking the annual growth rate down to 2.3% in the year to the ...

Chief economist update: A capitalist in communist clothes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
... revelation of a lower GDP growth target from 6.5% to 6%-6.5% this year. China's GDP growth slowed to 6.4% in the December 2018 quarter (down from 6.5% in the third quarter) and 6.6% for the full year 2018 from 6.9% in 2017. In his words, Li declared ...

WTW Australia asset consulting lead joins super fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
... started his career there with Williamson Nance in 1997. Williamson Nance was acquired by PwC in 1999. Separately, in December 2018 GESB removed exit fees, family law fees and the establishment fee applied to its retirement income pension account. Each ...

Mixed year for local market neutral funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
... in line with broader Australian equities, Nguyen said. However, market neutral strategies got a chance to shine during December's drawdown when they outperformed the broader Australian equity market by 3% after fee. "It is important to remember that ...

SMSF darlings revealed

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
Self-managed superannuation funds renewed their focus on blue chip stocks amid market uncertainty in the second half of 2018, the latest CommSec SMSF trading trends report shows. The sector had been cooling to the top stocks for some time. Almost 40% ...