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Magellan launches hedged global equities fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... unlisted funds. The $36 billion fund manager decided to launch a currency hedged version following the fall in the Australian dollar. The fund "will give Australian investors a complementary choice to access our global equities expertise via a simple ...

Growth or crisis, always reasons to worry in Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2015
... rapidly, "especially because these economies are in our top five trading partners," Mehmet added. But a rise of the Australian dollar "would cause structural issues domestically. "We'd go back to the tensions of having Queensland, the Northern Territory ...

RBNZ tries to turn the turn in NZ economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... the worst of times. 'twas only three months ago, the New Zealand dollar climbed higher and higher against the Australian dollar and was widely expected to breached parity because "...the NZ dollar genuinely looks like it is deserving of its high valuations" ...

A question of trend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... Financial Review's (AFR) Philip Baker wrote on the blow-by-blow of the minute-by-minute price reaction of the Australian dollar to the consumer price inflation numbers released on the same day. "It took more than half an hour, but eventually the Australian ...

PROFILE: BNP Paribas Securities Services country head David Braga

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2015
As a former project manager, David Braga has seen it all. He's worked on almost every type of job going in the financial services industry, which is precisely what makes him the right man for the job as BNP Securities Services' new head of Australia ...

Activist shareholders agitate AMP China fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2015
Asian hedge fund manager LIM Advisors called for shareholder action to force AMP Capital to take steps to narrow the 26% discount on its China Growth Fund. LIM Advisors said it will call an extraordinary general meeting to take the matter to unitholders ...

CFOs more optimistic in second quarter

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... China and Europe, more than 10 CFOs feel more optimistic now than they did three months ago. Optimism around the Australian dollar has dipped as the exchange rate has steadied. Deloitte assurance and advisory partner, Stephen Gustafson, said last quarter ...

AustralianSuper posts double digit returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2015
... officer, Mark Delaney, said strong returns over the past 12 months were driven by gains from the fall in the Australian dollar and positive returns across a range of asset classes including property, infrastructure, fixed income and equities. "Superannuation ...

Australia underperforms as China slows down: Russell

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... resilient domestic share market, a strong domestic currency and a solid property market is crumbling as the Australian dollar falls and China growth slows. The latest edition of the Russell Investments/ASX Long-term Investing Report determined that the ...

Property bubble debate heats up

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2015
... the report said. Lombard Street Research attributed Chinese interest in the Australian market to the falling Australian dollar: "The currency angle is often underestimated." The local currency has depreciated 20% relative to the Renminbi over the last ...