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Cromwell appoints new director

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
The listed real estate investor and manager is bidding farewell to a retiring director and is bringing in ARA Australia's chief executive. David Blight is getting a seat on the Cromwell board after the Singapore-based ARA Asset Management acquired ...

Chief economist update: China's neo-great leap forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... indices is a sure-fire way to get money flowing into China's stockmarket. Indexed funds, Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) and active funds, among others, benchmarked against the MSCI would need to buy Chinese shares in order to track their performance ...

Global fixed income manager mulls active bond ETFs

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
... horizon for Australia, Legg Mason head of marketing Felicity Nicholson confirmed the asset manager would look to add further active ETFs in the future. "If they (clients) come to us and that's the solution that they need it's certainly something we'd ...

Pengana partners with credit boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2018
Pengana Capital, which specialises in listed equities, is acquiring a minority stake in a boutique credit investment manager that offers credit funds for high-net-worth investors. Global Credit Investment (GCI) is a specialist fixed income and credit ...

Liquidnet and OTAS ramp up AI play

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
Liquidnet's acquisition of equity analytics firm OTAS Technologies is beginning to bear fruit for Australian institutional traders and investment offices, particularly following MiFID II implementation. About 12 months into the partnership, the ...

Responsible investment now mainstream

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAY 2018
Responsible investing has mainstreamed with two-thirds of Australia's largest super funds now actively committed. It's also become a leading indicator of segment performance differentials. Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA) in association ...

WAM CIO steps down from LIC board

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2018
... Australian equities research roles at Challenger. He is the portfolio manager overseeing WAM Capital, WAM Research, WAM Active and WAM Microcap. WAM chair Geoff Wilson recently updated investors regarding the initial public offering for WAM Global, saying ...

Big data's big retirement benefits

DARREN SNYDER, STEPHEN FAY  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2018
... surprisingly volatile year on year. While the overall trend in spending was down - particularly after the first 10 years of active retirement - individual households varied. This was reflective of the uncertainty people feel around how much they would ...

Industry fund awards currency mandate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
... $55 billion profit-for-members fund has awarded a $350 million mandate to a global currency manager. Sunsuper awarded the active currency mandate to Record Currency Management, which the fund hopes will generate risk-adjusted returns using the manager's ...

Spaceship looks outside of superannuation

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2018
Spaceship, which at last count managed about $198 million of millennial superannuation, is branching out into investment products with two new launches. The company quietly rolled out two low-fee funds in April under the Spaceship Voyager brand. The ...