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Chief economist update: RBA heading to zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 AUG 2019
... Forum, a think tank, notes that China meets only the first of those three conditions." But I digress. The recent exchange of fire sent global equity markets around the globe down, lopping A$53 billion off the Australian equity market on the same day ...

Pinnacle profits up 32%

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 AUG 2019
Pinnacle Investment Management profits jumped 32% to the year ending June with Firetrail accounting for most of the net institutional inflows across its 13 affiliates. The ASX-listed business, which takes stakes in boutique investment firms and offers ...

BlackRock partners with $23bn super fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
BlackRock partnered with a $23 billion superannuation fund to develop an ESG-focused global bond index fund. VicSuper has again partnered with the global fund manager, this time to develop a global bond index fund similar to the ESG Australian Bond ...

Chief economist update: Fed cut and Trump's war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 AUG 2019
The US Federal Reserve gave markets exactly what they were expecting - a 25 basis point reduction in the Fed funds rate at the conclusion of its July FOMC meeting - but instead of revving up the risk on trade, it was risk off. Equity markets fell. The ...

Super fund commits $20m for housing affordability

KRISTI CHENG  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
HESTA has invested $20 million to help improve housing affordability and sustainability via a scalable, innovative apartment project. Targeted at first home buyers, Affordable Housing clients and those working in key community occupations, 'Nightingale ...

Spectrum Wealth representatives find new homes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
... year that it would likely face a liquidity crisis in 2019 and missed its FY19 interim results deadline. Freedom came under fire during the Royal Commission for selling a life insurance policy to an intellectually disabled man.

SG debate puts super in a spin

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
The superannuation sector is in a spin over the super guarantee, despite the Government committing to its legislated increase to 12%. In a media release, the peak-body for industry superannuation, Industry Super Australia, fired a shot across the Government's ...

Portfolio manager caught out faking returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
A portfolio manager artificially inflated a fund's returns and collected a large bonus on the back of it, the US corporate regulator alleged. New Jersey-based portfolio manager and trader Swapnil Rege was employed by a company referred to as Fund Adviser ...

Super funds keen on alternatives managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
Alternatives managers continued to win the biggest slice of institutional mandates awarded in Australia in the year to March end, according to the latest Rainmaker Mandate Chaser report. Not-for-profit superannuation funds and investment managers handed ...

Bonds raise alarm at fund manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUL 2019
... investors that H20 would not freeze its funds. GAM Investments and Woodford Investment Management have previously also come under fire for investing in illiquid assets that forced the managers to freeze funds.