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CFS partners to create ESG fixed income fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... already ran an existing sustainability strategy, but the fund was the manager's first to invest in bonds as opposed to equities.

Corporate bond demand strengthens: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... Momentum in the local corporate bond market is strengthening as investors start to shift from a deeply-rooted property and equities investment culture to defensive assets that preserve capital and generate a reliable income stream. This is according ...

Thought leadership: Building portfolios for market crises

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAY 2018
... disappearance means investors have become over-reliant on equity returns, which have undoubtedly been great. "Owning equities at a cheap price point in the form of beta in decent markets is a decent strategy over the long haul, if you can condition them ...

Research expert joins Fidelity

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... for more than seven years and joined the global asset management firm at a time when it was expanding its Australian equities business. Patel was also a former research analyst and vice president at AllianceBernstein Australia. There, he was responsible ...

SMSFs ramp up LRBA and property allocations

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2018
... stronger," Rainmaker said. The opportunity for product designers is that even though SMSFs hold more direct Australian equities as they get larger, they deploy more cash, hold less property and increase their managed funds holdings, it noted. Based on ...

Funds SA fills two senior investment roles

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... manager has made two appointments in senior investment roles. Matthew Kempton joined Funds SA in February as director, equities. He left his role as chief investment officer at ESSSuper, where he worked from 2013 until February this year. He has previously ...

ANU to recalibrate divestment policy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... timed as several of stocks they divested from soon experienced dramatic price falls. However since then ANU's Australian equities portfolio, which now comprises 26% of the investment pool, underperformed by 0.95% in 2016 and by 2.8% in 2017, according ...

Mainstream adds former Commonwealth Bank GM to board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... depth to the Mainstream board," Johnston said. Fisher is currently non-executive chair and a director of Morphic Ethical Equities Fund, and previously served as non-executive director of Quantum Funds Management. The appointment of Fisher follows Mainstream's ...

OneVue and managed account provider add scale to advice firm

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
... business structures made it an easy sell to clients," he said. Kuda Wealth had previously been using a tailored direct equities service which incurred too much downside when managing disparate shares. Davie said the solution was not scalable, extremely ...

SSGA launches ESG-heavy strategy for Aussie instos

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 APR 2018
State Street Global Advisors is introducing a new low carbon, high ESG international equities fund for Australian institutional investors. Partnering with MSCI, the State Street Low Carbon ESG International Equities Index Trust is the next iteration ...