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Growth spurs new hires at Australian Unity

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... to support its expanding investment business, which provides clients with a range of portfolio services across fixed interest, real estate investment trusts and sustainable investing to name a few. Australian Unity executive general manager of investment ...

Former UBS multi-asset expert joins boutique

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... She also chaired the Australian Investment Committee. Prior to UBS, McNaughton was an investment specialist of fixed interest, credit and cast at Colonial First State Global Asset Management for four years. She was fixed income specialist at Scottish ...

AustralianSuper awards $500m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... JCB's mandate win gives it roughly a 5% slice of AustraliaSuper's total $10.2 billion allocation to Australian fixed interest, according to 30 June figures. The boutique invests in high-grade sovereign bonds backed by governments with a credit ...

Make sure you have cash: Geoff Wilson

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
... you have cash." The $1.4 billion listed investment company WAM Capital started the year with 24.3% in cash and fixed interest. The managers ramped up cash holdings over five months and by the end of May, the LIC had 38.5% in cash. Allocations have been ...

Kapstream renews industry fund relationship

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2018
... Morningstar re-rated the Kapstream Absolute Return Income Fund from bronze to neutral. At the same time it talked up the fixed interest sector, saying: "The popularity of a handful of more-flexible, or unconstrained, bond funds has been striking."

Janus Henderson promotes Aussie team

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2018
Janus Henderson Investors made two promotions in its Australian fixed interest team which currently manages $13.7 billion for institutional and retail clients. Portfolio manager Jay Sivapalan is moving into the position of co-head of Janus Henderson ...

Super funds underplay risk profiles: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2018
... On the other hand, defensive assets are lower risk with an income stream generated from cash, term deposits and fixed interest. However, with super funds increasingly investing more in unlisted property and infrastructure this potentially increases the ...

ETF industry swells to $39 billion, global equities dominate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2018
... allocation breakup of all the money invested in Aussie ETPs is: international equities (44%), Australian equities (40%), fixed interest (8%), cash (4%), commodities (2%), currency (1%) and nil for goals-based and diversified exchange traded products. ...

Perpetual launches ethical fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... fund's launch means investors are poised to benefit from rising interest rates as the assets are not locked into a fixed interest rate," he said.

Chief economist update: Another five minutes of sunshine?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUN 2018
... investment properties during times of expansion when jobs are more secure and incomes are growing. Conversely, fixed interest investors generally consider economic expansion as negative for bonds because it can indicate inflation may be going up which ...