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Challenger super fund names advisory board

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
A new superannuation fund has created an advisory board to guide its development, including a former AMP director of savings and retirement, and a director of Impact Investment Partners. TOMORROW Super, led by former BT Financial Group executive Wes ...

Robert slates industry over inactive accounts

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
Assistant Treasurer Stuart Robert has taken aim at the financial services industry over its "lazy" attitude in dealing with inactive superannuation accounts. Speaking at the Financial Services Council's Life Insurance Conference in Sydney this morning ...

Pinnacle boutique opens LIT offer

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
A Pinnacle boutique is raising $300 million for a new listed investment trust that will invest in private debt opportunities targeting 7% net cash income per annum. Metrics Credit Partners' new trust, the MCP Wholesale Income Opportunities Trust ...

Bond fund launches to local investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2019
... inception, the fund's average return is 3.56% per annum. The fund is co-managed by portfolio managers Andrea DiCenso, Tom Fahey and Kevin Kearns, all based in Boston. Kearns commented: "Our investment process is fundamentally research-driven, but ...

Chief economist update: Wrong way, go down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
... of this year. HSBC is more bearish, predicting the Australian dollar would end 2019 at US$0.66. As HSBC currency strategist Tom Nash explains: "Unlike 2018 when broad-based US dollar strength and, towards the end of the year, global growth concerns ...

Arming human traders for big-ticket trades

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
... high-frequency traders or niche hedge funds. "Traders have far more data than they are capable of absorbing," Liquidnet chief scientist Tom Doris said on his visit to Sydney recently. "We take key data sources for traders and calibrate them according ...

APN Property launches direct regional fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
... because the fund already exists. For typical direct property investments however, this is not the case. The fund's manager, Tom Forrest, said the two office buildings were over 96% leased and held "strong" performance track records. "Fundamentally, we ...

Ideas give insight to opportunity: Vanguard

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2019
A recession might happen, eventually. But if it does growth might not be far off either, according to Vanguard. Speaking today at the Sydney leg of the fund manager's financial adviser roadshow, Vanguard global chief economist and global head of investment ...

Chief economist update: Time for an RBA shift to neutral

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
"Our tightenings or loosenings of monetary policy are determined by the inflation outlook. If the economy wants to grow faster than it currently is, and inflation is not showing any tendency to rise to the point where it could threaten our medium-term ...

Australia Day: How the barbecue has changed

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
Over the past 20 years, Australians have increasingly paid more for their meat at Australia Day barbecues. They're also more conscious about drinking alcohol to excess and should eat fruit salad. The Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) said sausages ...