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Revolution hires to investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 FEB 2021
... Lucie Bielczykova as an associate portfolio manager, from JANA where she advised institutional clients on fixed income research, portfolio construction and investment strategy. Bielczykova began her career at Kapstream Capital, where she worked alongside ...

Australia sweeps pension market rankings

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
... private assets such as real estate, private equity, and infrastructure, appear to be contributing to the success, the research found, noting that this asset class over a 20 year-period has grown from about 7% to above 26%. "Alternatives have been attractive ...

SMSFs primed for best financial interests duty

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2021
... super funds accounting for $728 billion or around a quarter of funds under management," she said. "As [the SMSFA's] research shows, the driving force behind these numbers is Australians' desire to be 'masters of their own destiny' to ...

Financial services sees improved mental health

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... insurance services industries climbed from sixth place in 2019 to second overall in the thriving workplace score in 2020. The research highlights a large improvement in the mental health of financial and insurance services workers amid the COVID-19 pandemic. ...

CareSuper hires from VFMC

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 FEB 2021
... LUCRF Super and Frontier Advisors. CareSuper said Lim has extensive experience in portfolio management and investment research and will oversee the fund's fixed interest, credit and absolute return investment activities. CareSuper chief investment ...

Cbus appoints three investment heads

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... principal/senior consultant at Towers Perrin. He has also worked at Commonwealth Funds Management including as head of research and manager of trading. Lastly, Serge Allaire has been appointed Cbus as head of private equity. In his most recent role ...

Financial sector has deep pockets for philanthropy: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2021
... which is 17% more than the prior year. Thirty firms donated over $175 million to COVID-19 relief efforts, typically viral research and local communities, the 2020 GivingLarge Report found. Mining companies BHP, Rio, Newcrest and South32 contributed a ...

Frontier on hiring spree

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
Frontier has flagged hiring appetite for senior consultant and research roles, as it announces eight new additions including a senior consultant from CitiBank. Jill Guan has joined Frontier as a senior consultant specialising in debt and currency. She ...

Two ASI executives out the door

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2021
... recently head of consultant relations for Australia prior to his departure in December 2020. He was responsible for the research and consultant relations across institutional and wholesale, representing 20 funds and strategies that spanned all asset ...

Local managed funds fee revenues shrinks

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2021
... managed funds reaped $4.5 billion in fee revenue in 2020 but average fees were down 6bps, according to new Rainmaker research. Rainmaker analysed more than 1000 managed funds which had $588 billion in total assets. The average fee wholesale funds charged ...