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Australia's super assets fastest growing: WTW

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2018
... two years," he added. Along with Canada, the UK and the US, WTW highlighted Australia's "above average" allocation to equities (49%), followed by a preference to other asset classes (22%), cash (15%) and bonds (14%). Urwin said the home bias for equities ...

Lazard chief executive steps down

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... entered the industry as a market surveillance analyst at NASDAQ in 1987. He was also director, head of international equities at State Super Financial Services (now StatePlus) and head of research at van Eyk. During his time at Lazard, Prugue stepped ...

Sequoia Financial Group grows board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
... and is a former group investment manager at ING. He also has extensive experience in stockbroking, including as head of equities for Deutsche Bank Australia, director of institutional sales at County Natwest Sercurities (now part of Citigroup) and director ...

Pension phase SMSFs prefer Aussie equities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 2 FEB 2018
Self-managed superannuation fund members in the pension phase are demonstrating a stronger preference for domestic equities than their accumulation phase counterparts. Recent analysis from Class shows SMSFs in pension phase are, on average, allocating ...

Responsible investment here to stay: Experts

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... head of wealth management research Nathan Lim said when you compare the average returns of funds investing in Australian equities using an ESG component against the broader market "we see that at the end of 2016 the former outperformed the latter for ...

Consistent growth fuels Future Fund cyber fears

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2018
... consequence of that is that we have taken a little more risk." During the period the fund increased its allocation in global equities, which now stands at 26.3% of the overall portfolio. Cash holdings dropped to 16.4%. This boosted it's the fund's Q2 ...

Acorns Australia restructures after $150m milestone

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2018
... making additional top-ups. In June last year, Acorns then introduced the Emerald Portfolio: a diversified portfolio of equities, bonds and cash with an environmental, social and corporate governance overlay. It has exposure to the Russell Investments ...

Fund manager chief executive moves to QIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... has executed a senior hire in its global multi-asset division, appointing the chief executive of a boutique Australian equities fund manager. Joining QIC is Allison Hill. Most recently Hill was the chief executive at DMP Asset Management where she led ...

Lead portfolio manager named for new international LIC

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 JAN 2018
... new listed investment company, WAM Global. Catriona Burns has been appointed lead portfolio manager of WAM's new global equities LIC, commencing mid-February and investing in undervalued international growth companies. Burns began her funds management ...

Population growth drives real income

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JAN 2018
... inception the fund has delivered an 18% return. "The fund sits in the sensible space between low-risk bonds and high-risk equities," Reid said. "It has attributes of bonds around an enhanced income, but unlike equities the key driver is population growth ...