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HESTA announces three GM appointments

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2020
... modelling). His hire comes as HESTA set a goal of internalising Aussie equities by 2021 and to be underway in cash and fixed interest in 2022, announced by the fund in March. Cameron reports to HESTA chief risk and compliance officer Andrew Major. "We ...

IOOF sees surge in FUM

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... investment management business saw outflows of $81 million, with Mota saying despite its MultiSeries, MultiMix fixed interest and cash management trusts seeing net inflows, it was not enough to offset losses in its other investment products. The addition ...

Pandemic puts pressure on ETF spreads

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... many ETF sectors and asset classes' spreads widened, as price discovery became increasingly more difficult. In fixed interest sectors, such as corporate bonds and high-yield bonds, the market leaders had to take on risk to maintain buy-sell spreads as ...

Boutique manager taps former Challenger executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... general manager of risk. He joined TCorp from Schroders, where he was a senior credit analyst and deputy manager of fixed interest. Earlier, he served AMP Capital for around four years as a manager in its capital markets operation, and as deputy manager ...

Credit value exists in emerging markets

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
Despite the havoc wrung on emerging markets (EM) by both COVID-19 and now the oil crash, a global fixed interest investment manager still sees value in the higher quality part of the market. Western Asset Management said the double-barreled shocks of ...

Pendal reports $3.9bn in outflows, slips below $100 bn

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2020
... annualised effect, Pendal said. "Our experience during the COVID-19 so far has seen outflows from our cash and fixed interest mandates primarily from our institutional clients where there has been some reweighting of portfolios. Flows in our wholesale ...

Plenty still want in on ETPs: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... equities ETPs in general seemed popular during March, with net inflows of $1.2 billion. "One would have expected fixed interest products to be popular in this period, but the reported dislocation in fixed interest markets obviously had an effect," Dyall ...

Hostplus responds to PDS controversy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... In 2018, Hostplus chief investment officer Sam Sicilia told Investment Magazine : "We have a zero allocation to fixed interest and a zero allocation to cash." Hostplus chief executive David Elia has been consistent in assuring members and the media that ...

Opportunities in fixed interest during crisis

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 7 APR 2020
... bank debt amid the COVID-19 crisis; you just have to look for it, according to Janus Henderson head of Australian fixed interest Jay Sivapalan. Despite the illiquidity of the bond market, Sivapalan explains, the Australian government and Reserve Bank's ...

Multi-asset results mixed in COVID-19 sell-off

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 APR 2020
... It named Pendal Active Conservative as a winner in the space, thanks to its allocation to defensively positioned fixed interest funds. "Ultimately, while manager selection contributed meaningfully to performance outcomes during the downturn, the best ...