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Saxo launches digital access to Chinese bonds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAR 2019
Australian institutional clients of Saxo Bank have been given digital access to Chinese bonds via its global multi-asset offering. Enabled via mutual bond access program Bond Connect, qualified Australian and global institutional investors can now trade ...

Class makes managed accounts play

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
Class is investing $4 million in an MDA service provider, with an option to take full ownership of the company down the track. Investing in Philo Capital Advisers, Class will provide software to support the company's offering, including services to ...

Why this HNW adviser avoids hedge funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2019
... investors who may have worked in the industry and understand alternatives very well," he says. The firm's foray into the asset class is fairly recent. He says his clients had almost no exposure to alternatives 10 years ago. Things started to move about ...

SMSF darlings revealed

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2019
... technology stocks (AfterPay trades increased 236% by value) but the telecoms industry fell out of favour with the investor class. Telstra trading volumes fell 38% with 60% of the SMSF trades in the stock a sell. TPG also fielded a strong sell sentiment. ...

Global manager launches ESG strategy

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2019
A global manager has launched a new strategy for that will invest in listed companies poised to benefit from the trend towards decarbonisation. Investec Asset Management's Global Environment Strategy aims to identify the businesses whose products ...

Former AMP Capital exec to lead global asset manager in Asia

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2019
... expertise and insight." Fasso said he was excited to join the global asset manager, pointing to PineBridge's "set of world-class investment capabilities." "PineBridge's strong global capabilities, solid investment acumen and truly client-focused culture ...

No one-size-fits-all approach to franking changes

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
Investment experts are split on how SMSFs should invest if Labor's proposed franking credit refund policy is enacted. On day two of the Self-managed Super Fund Association's national conference in Melbourne this week, a panel of experts representing ...

Perpetual thinks outside value investing

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
Perpetual flagged it will broaden its investment strategy outside of value investing following a challenging first-half reporting period. Chief executive and managing director Rob Adams said the firm's investment management division Perpetual Investments ...

AUM growth subdued to 2025: Bloomberg

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
New research from Bloomberg suggests fee margins of global asset managers will drop 11% over the next six years. Most of the 1950 global asset managers surveyed in the Asset Management Outlook to 2025 provided conservative AUM growth forecasts over ...

Class appoints chief executive

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2019
Class appointed a new chief executive to replace Kevin Bungard. Andrew Russell will join the SMSF administration and accounting software provider as managing director and chief executive in early May 2019. He was most recently executive general manager ...