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First Sentier named Investment Manager of the Year

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUN 2022
First Sentier Investors won Investment Manager of the Year award at the Financial Standard Investment Leadership Awards, taking the title from Macquarie Investment Management which held it for four years running. The Investment Leadership Awards celebrate ...

Risk asset volatility guaranteed: Western Asset

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
Geopolitical developments and central bank tightening have made risk asset volatility a surety this year, according to Franklin Templeton's specialised investment managers Western Asset. However, Western Asset has said that despite geopolitical turbulence ...

CountPlus names chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAY 2022
Following the sudden departure of Matthew Rowe in February, the financial advice group has named its new chief executive while also naming a new chief financial and operating officer. Hugh Humphrey will take over as chief executive of CountPlus on July ...

Yellen forebodes stagflation risks

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2022
In Bonn, Germany, US secretary of the treasury Janet Yellen has called the global economic outlook challenging and uncertain; stagflation effects have depressed output and spending, she added. Yellen said the US understood when Russia invaded Ukraine ...

Investors seek inflationary refuge in diversification strategies

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2022
... loans for better inflationary protection. Fixed income investors also focused on higher-yielding assets such as emerging market debt and high-yield bonds. Private markets continued to attract interest as investors searched for alternatives to more traditional ...

Top Aussie equities funds revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2022
... The highest sector median for the period was achieved by property funds, coming in at 17.6%, and the lowest was emerging market equities with -9.0%.

Warakirri Asset Management strengthens retail focus

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2022
... offer to investors. "As the exclusive retail distribution partner for Northcape Capital's Australian, global and emerging market equity strategies, the rapid growth in funds under management for the Flinders Investment Partners small companies strategy ...

Aussies place 17th for crypto profits

CHLOE WALKER  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2022
Australian investors realised gains just over US$2.1 billion last year, according to Chainalysis' latest report. Driven by transaction and web traffic data, crypto platform Chainalysis saw a $162.7billion gain in crypto across the world in 2021, compared ...

Geopolitics to change ESG approach: Survey

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 12 APR 2022
... reinforced the need for a sophisticated ESG approach. In addition, the Russian invasion of Ukraine will likely alter emerging market country exposures, while adding importance to screening of controversial weapons. Fossil fuel firms are coming under ...

Maple-Brown Abbott lifts AMP Capital managers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2022
Boutique investment manager Maple-Brown Abbott has lifted two small cap portfolio managers from AMP Capital. Phillip Hudak and Matt Griffin will join Maple-Brown Abbott as co-portfolio managers, Australian small companies, at the end of April. They ...