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PineBridge launches Asia small caps fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
The $172 billion fund manager has launched its third Australian-domiciled fund. The PineBridge Asia ex Japan Small Cap Genesis Fund is an Australia-domiciled fund that feeds into the strategy's UCITS fund. The underlying strategy is benchmark unaware ...

WAM Global performance rises

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2021
The $646 million listed investment company has announced a record investment portfolio for FY20, outperforming the index by 3.2%, ahead of its full-year results. WAM Global recorded investment portfolio performance of 30.7% and total shareholder return ...

Allianz Retire+ chief steps down

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
... Retire+ Adrian Stewart has been appointed as acting chief executive. He was most recently head of client management APAC ex-Japan at PIMCO and previously head of Australia and New Zealand. Stewart has served as a board member since the establishment ...

Economic recap: Week to July 9

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... with private sector activity in both the manufacturing (51.3 from 52.0) and services sectors (50.3 from 55.1) slowing. In Japan, the government has succumbed to the increasing rate of coronavirus infections, particularly in Tokyo. It declared a state ...

New shareholder at Challenger

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 JUL 2021
Will Vicars' Caledonia has sold its 15% stake in annuities giant Challenger to Athene Holding Limited and Apollo Global Management. Athene and Apollo, which are set to merge, now own 18% or $720 million of Challenger shares. Of this, 3% is subject ...

Economic recap: Week to July 2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2021
... give that meat to Madam Lagarde's expectation that medium-term inflation will stabilise below the ECB's target. In Japan, cases of coronavirus infections continue to rise, and the government is reportedly going to extend containment measures ...

Mary Manning exits Ellerston Capital

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
... will join another boutique. Manning was the portfolio manager of the Ellerston Asia Growth Fund, which invested in Asia ex-Japan stocks and returned 1.3% over the benchmark's 7.19% in the three years ending May. The fund was behind the benchmark ...

Chief economist update: Japan still waiting for the sun to rise

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2021
... month. The annual rate of core inflation turned into a positive 0.1% from April's minus 0.1% rate. Still, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) remains optimistic, noting in its 17-18 June meeting that: "Although the level of Japan's economic activity, mainly ...

Chief economist update: Thank you, my frenemy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2021
... in May - dwarfing the increase in exports to Hong Kong ($622 million) and Singapore ($133 million) combined. Exports to Japan declined in May by 4% and 11%, respectively. China may have put limits on sundry Australian products, but it still can't ...

Australia among the richest nations

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2021
... 1805 millionaires at the end of 2020, increasing by 392 year on year. Australia is among several countries like Germany, Japan, France, the UK China, Canada, the Netherlands and Italy that saw a jump in the number of millionaires. One factor driving ...