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Fearless Girl comes to Melbourne

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
Cbus and HESTA, together with Maurice Blackburn, will bring the Fearless Girl statue to Australia in bid to stand for equality and diversity. The 50-inch bronze statue of a little girl standing defiantly in front of Wall Street's famous Charging ...

Chief economist update: La vita is no longer e bella

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
"When the moon hits your eye, like a big pizza pie, that's amore..." But Italians may not be in the mood for "amore", not when their economy - the third biggest in the Eurozone - is officially in a technical recession. La vita is no longer e bella! ...

Avenir eyes insto investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
Avenir Capital is looking to win institutional investors for its 'private equity mindset' approach to equities, after previously running capital raised mostly by word-of-mouth. The fund invests in 18 international stocks, with a longer-term ...

Global multi-boutique eyes Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
A $45 billion multi-boutique founded by a former Natixis deputy chief executive is heading down under to win super fund mandates and to potentially buy Australian boutiques. iM Global Partner takes minority, non-controlling stakes in small asset managers ...

Why the RBA has reason to cut rates in 2019

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
... valuation and better returns (4.5% dividend yield)? But here's the rub. The prospect of steady interest rates as far as the eye can see (or in this case, till 2020) is borne out of the not-so-good tidings for the domestic economy. As the RBA has ...

Retail investors see limited upside in 2019

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 7 JAN 2019
... their equity portfolios and be opportunistic for upside when the market sells off," he said. Sagun told investors to keep an eye on company earnings. If earnings growth expectations are positive (which they are now) equity markets tend to have positive ...

ASIC sharpens focus on managed accounts

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
ASIC will keep a closer eye on managed accounts in 2019, which will involve scrutinising the financial advice provided in more detail. In its 2018-22 Corporate Plan, the corporate regulator announced a new project reviewing the practices of managed ...

Chief economist update: Thanks for nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
America's Thanksgiving celebration is only two winks away but the way the US equity market is going, investors have nothing to give thanks for. Three of Wall Street's benchmark equity indices are now in the red for the year - S&P 500 down 1.2% ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... managers to see if they have added value relative to a passive benchmark net of fees over the long term. He does however keep his eye on this segment. Some of Statewide's quant managers and other managers he knows of look at ETF inflows and outflows ...

We must do better: ASFA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... challenge and should be key focus going forward. "Our industry does a good job, mostly - in fact, overwhelmingly so. Super has an eye-watering impact on the average Australian each and every day but we need to ensure we do better... We need to focus ...