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Inflation to persist in 2022: Aviva

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JAN 2022
Inflation will dampen Australia's economy in 2022 as it continues to soar significantly higher than expected, according to Aviva Investors. While Australia's growth outlook for 2022 is strong, backed by a lower unemployment rate, inflation has ...

Sustainability will send some broke: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
Efforts to become more sustainable will challenge many firms and perhaps even bankrupt some, experts from MFS Investment Management have noted. In a new research note, MFS global investment strategist Robert Almeida and research analyst Robert Wilson ...

SSGA creates regional ESG role

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 DEC 2021
State Street Global Advisors appointed a sustainable investing specialist from CareSuper to a newly created position. Based in Melbourne, Xinting Jia joins as environmental, social and governance investment strategist for the Asia Pacific region. She ...

Do inflows follow performance?

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2021
A recent study found flows to individual funds do directly follow performance, but there's a catch. Rainmaker analysis of actively managed funds data for the 12 months to September this year shows flows follow performance but there is a lag of about ...

Robeco launches new sustainable index fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 DEC 2021
... team, responsible for managing a wide range of enhanced indexing strategies including global, European, US and emerging market strategies.

ESG overhaul for SSGA ETFs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2021
State Street Global Advisors will roll out enhancements to four of its SPDR ETFs and, in the process, give Australian investors access to an ESG-focused global real estate ETF and reduced carbon emissions emerging markets ETF for the first time. From ...

GQG Partners launches income strategy

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2021
GQG Partners launched a new strategy, securing a $125 million mandate from a large Australian institution. The GQG Global Quality Dividend Income strategy seeks to invest in dividend-paying companies with attractively priced future growth prospects ...

Maple-Brown Abbott adds distribution role

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2021
... relationships and build on our existing presence," Rahmani said. Maple-Brown Abbott is also launching a global emerging market equity strategy which is expected be available to investors by mid 2022.

Downward fee trend hits ESG

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 22 NOV 2021
... US high yield strategies saw median fees decrease by 15% since 2017, bfinance reported, while fees for blended emerging market debt strategies decreased by 10% in the same period. Multi-sector fixed income also saw the median fee decrease by 15% since ...

Multi-boutique appoints head of private wealth

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2021
Warakirri Asset Management hired from UBS for the newly created role of head of private wealth. Ben Williams was head of wholesale client coverage at the Swiss bank for over four years. He was previously national manager, retail at Lazard Asset Management ...