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Tribeca expands natural resources investment team

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 DEC 2016
... to meet offshore investor demand. It's a global long-short natural resources strategy, primarily focuses on large cap equities but invests in other classes to reduce correlation with equity markets.

Top 10 financial planning stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 20 DEC 2016
... businesses retain its identity, working together on delivering enhanced services across asset management, institutional equities and debt, private wealth management, SMSFs and corporate advisory. 3. Focus on older men will kill financial planning The ...

Software provider signs four Aussie hedge funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... Cressac said: "We find AlphaDesk in conjunction with ITG's Triton EMS easy to use and suitable to our needs as a global equities manager." ITG's co-head of workflow technology Scott Kurland said it has been a pleasure working with AlphaDesk. "We are ...

NZ SMEs to receive $260m VC boost

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
... get access to the growth opportunities in this sector." The NZ Super Fund will continue to focus its efforts on listed equities and larger scale investments, along with its existing rural and timber holdings. The NZ Super Fund has NZ$4.9 billion invested ...

Equities on the nose in 2016

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 19 DEC 2016
Investors moving in and out of equities-based managed funds are showing less confidence in the asset class as volatile markets continue alongside sustained political uncertainty. The Equity Preference Index, maintained by Colonial First State Global ...

Industry fund seeks volatility overlay mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
... awarded an equity overlay mandate from an industry super fund seeking further downside protection in its international equities portfolio. The mandate provides an equity risk mitigation strategy to about one-third of a $1.3 billion international equities ...

Montgomery funds rated by Zenith

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
... Montgomery Global Fund provides investors with a concentrated, currency unhedged, high conviction exposure to global equities; while the Montaka Global Access Fund is equipped to preserve capital through its flexible mandate that allows short selling ...

Perpetual's Parkin resigns, successor named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 DEC 2016
Perpetual's deputy head of equities Nathan Parkin will step down effective immediately, with his replacement already named. Vince Pezzullo will take on the role, while Parkin's portfolio management responsibilities will be shared between Pezzullo and ...

The good and the bad in the Fed rate hike

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 15 DEC 2016
... at the conclusion of its 13-14 December FOMC meeting. While financial markets widely expected the Fed's decision, US equities sold (the S&P 500 index lost 0.8% on the day) on the news but US bonds continued to sell-off (the yield on 10-year US Treasuries ...

Secure your seat at Chief Economists Forum

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2016
... Capital Markets chief economist and head of Australian research, Su Lin Ong; AXA Investment Managers head of Framlington Equities, Asia, Mark Tinker; and master of ceremonies Saul Eslake. You can register for the event and see all speaker profiles he ...