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Acadian appoints investments head from SSGA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... Street Global Advisors in Boston, where he was managing director and senior portfolio manager for the emerging market equities team. Before that, he was a risk manager at Credit Commercial de France, now HSBC France. In his new role, de Beaulieu will ...

Australian Ethical appoints new executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... importance being placed on ethical investing. Deana Mitchell will join the investment manager later this month as an equities analyst. Mitchell joins from Macquarie where she has spent the last 14 years working across various equities research roles. ...

Cooper Investors grows retail presence

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
Two Cooper Investors global equities funds, managing about $185 million, will now be available on Macquarie Wrap. The Melbourne-based boutique investment manager is hoping to hit $1 billion in assets under management across the two funds in the next ...

Chief economist update: The art of the deal exemplified

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2018
... would also make good their counter-threat for retaliatory actions...and the trade war is on! But instead of diving US equities rose - the S&P 500 gained 0.5%; the Dow 0.4%; the Nasdaq 0.4%. Buy on news? Perhaps. It could be markets are hoping that Trump's ...

WAM LIC appoints director

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... business. In addition to leading Clime as managing director and chief investment officer, Abernethy was previously head of equities at NRMA Investments and an executive director at Poynton Corporate. Rugge-Price is a marketing and communications expert ...

Macrovue bets on 5G technology

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... be notified quarterly if the managers want to swap a 5G stock in the portfolio. However, the number of stocks in the equities-only portfolio will be limited to 10, Bristow said.

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... trading on a muscle memory than necessarily anything that's economically real. "In the same way European and Japanese equities shouldn't be terrified of the interest rate moves in the US, emerging market debt shouldn't be terrified of dollar-strength ...

Hunter Hall veteran launches new business

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... environment where this is nil favoritism among investors' capital." The investment strategy for Hunter Hall's global equities strategies was updated after the company's merger with Pengana Capital last year; Chan left at around the same time. The investment ...

Life insurer profitably improving: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAR 2018
... billion at the end of 2017. Breaking this down to asset classes, 55% was invested in debt securities ($14.2bn); 14.7% in equities ($5.2bn); and 5.3% in property ($9.6bn). For risk products, individual lump sum risk contributed $1.1 billion to net profit ...

Watermark LIC chair resigns to launch new business

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
... John Abernethy will join WGF's board as a director. In addition to spearheading Clime, Abernethy was previously head of equities at NRMA Investments and an executive director at Poynton Corporate. Former Platinum Asset Management chief operating officer ...