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Premium China creates chief executive role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... assist advisers and the research community with portfolio rebalancing, given Australian investors' low allocation to Asian equities and fixed income markets. "I'm really looking forward to working with the team at Premium China Funds Management. I have ...

Don't blame ETFs: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are not at fault for the recent global equities sell-off and should not be blamed for the next financial market meltdown. This is the view of 68% of respondents polled in Financial Standard's survey last week, who said ETFs ...

Global firm builds Aussie equities team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
A global investment manager appointed four new portfolio managers to its Australian equities team, joining from the likes of Vanguard, BlackRock and IFM Investors. Joining Invesco's Melbourne-based Invesco Quantitative Strategies (IQS) group are Neil ...

Lennox launches micro-cap fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
Fidante-aligned Australian equities boutique Lennox Capital Partners is launching a new micro-cap fund. The Lennox Australian Microcap Fund will hold between 20 and 40 Australian and New Zealand companies and aims to outperform the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries ...

Copia appoints new CFO from Mutual Trust

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... International Fund, Chester High Conviction Fund, Apollo Global Equity Fund, Pilgrim Global Equity Fund and Pilgrim DW Equities Fund to OneVue. Copia switched to OneVue from NAB Asset Servicing. In an investor release, Copia said the move to OneVue would ...

FSC launches asset manager governance regime

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
... a world class framework." In a panel discussion concerning the standard, Colonial First State Global Asset Management equities chief investment officer David Dixon noted the regime's overseas equivalents typically "focus on stewardship, whereas ours ...

AMP cuts fees for new wholesale fund suite

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... than their underlying wholesale vehicles. The Advantage Funds range comprises 31 funds covering Australian and global equities, alternatives, fixed interest, property and infrastructure. They're available to new and existing super, pension and investment ...

Avenir recruits Platinum analyst

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
Fidante-aligned global equities boutique Avenir Capital appointed a new investment director. Curtis Cifuentes joins Avenir from Platinum Asset Management where he was an investment analyst specialising in Japanese equities and the technology sector ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news returns?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... of 1.83%. Surely, the persistent rise in bond yields would have added the faster than expected inflation report for US equities and even compounded by data (released on the same day) of weaker than expected retail spending. US retail sales fell by 0.3% ...

Defensive bias hurting SMSF performance: Research

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 FEB 2018
Lower weightings to growth assets - particularly international equities - in the average SMSF is dragging down its performance relative to default MySuper indices, according to SuperGuard 360 research. In the 12 months to 31 December 2017, the SG360 ...