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Who's afraid of North Korea? Not the South Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... composite index has gained 15.2% this year to date - outperforming most of its Asian peers and those of developed market equities including the S&P 500 index. The KOSPI is currently trading at 2333.82 points after a 2017 opening of 2026.16 points and ...

Female SMSF investors more focused on securing retirement

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... ETFs and LICs, they hold over 50% of investments by value. SMSFs are also using them to diversify into international equities, now representing 60% of CHESS holdings of international asset ETFs and LICs. "SMSFs are often characterised as insufficiently ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... breach of the US debt ceiling and, lately, Hurricane Harvey - singly or combined - couldn't dent positive sentiment for US equities. The S&P 500 index is up 10.6% this year to date and a mere 0.2% down from the record high reached on 7 August; The Dow ...

A hedge fund by any other name

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
... strategies that aim to generate returns with low correlations to published indices solely or predominantly comprised of equities, bonds and/or cash Has a complex investment structure that invests through three or more vertically interposed entities "where ...

Future Fund expected to grow to $200bn

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2017
... with returns reaching 7.8%. Cash remains the fund's biggest asset class, making up 21% of the fund, followed by global equities (14.8%), alternative assets (14.8%), and private equity (11.6%). Australian equities make up the smallest holding at 6%. Speaking ...

HHV reports $22m loss after rough year

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 AUG 2017
... by Pengana Capital portfolio managers Jordan Cvetanovski and Steven Glass, who have overseen Pengana's International Equities Fund since 2015. James McDonald, who was previously Hunter Hall's chief investment officer, remains on the investment team. ...

Morgan Stanley appoints Australia research head

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2017
... Lou Pirenc, who is relocating to New York to take on the position of global head of research data. Wiles has worked in equities research at Morgan Stanley since 2006. Prior to that, he was in a similar division at J.P. Morgan and was also a fund manager ...

ASIC raises concerns over NSX listings

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 AUG 2017
... March 2018. ASIC commissioner Cathie Armour said: "Listing standards are critical to the integrity of the Australian equities market, and the trust and confidence investors have in it. As one of only a small number of domestic listing markets, NSX has ...

Fund manager chief steps down, appoints investment director

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 AUG 2017
... financial planning firm before moving to the UK with the now defunct Citicorp Scrimgeour Vickers on their Australian equities desk. He has also worked for the British Gas Pension Fund as a portfolio manager and subsequently worked for Norwich Investment ...

Vanguard appoints Australian active team head

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... an expansion to its Melbourne team. Michael Roach will lead the Australian QEG, having previously been a quantitative equities portfolio manager for Vanguard in the US since 2009. Prior to that, he held multiple other positions at Vanguard, including ...