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Chief economist update: BOE waiting on Brexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
When the Bank of England's (BOE) Monetary Policy Council (MPC) unanimously voted to raise the Bank Rate by 25 bps to 0.75% on the 2nd of August, BOE governor Mark Carney was quoted as saying, "The mistake is to always wait, wait, wait until you ...

AustralianSuper to cut equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
... A $1.5 million small caps mandate is among the latest of the fund's investments to be brought in-house, Rainmaker research shows. "When we hire a manager, we are spending your money and we spend lots of your money, the real issue is how we spend ...

Chief economist update: Australia's low(er)-flation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2018
Will the next move in the official cash rate, as Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Governor Philip Lowe put it, likely "be up, rather than down"? To answer this, we have to look at the RBA's mandate of full employment and meeting an "agreed medium-term ...

AustralianSuper awards $500m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... Jamieson Coote Bonds was appointed to manage a fixed income mandate for the super fund at the end of June, Rainmaker research shows. JCB's mandate win gives it roughly a 5% slice of AustraliaSuper's total $10.2 billion allocation to Australian ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone growth slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
Uh-oh! Borrowing a quote from Robert Burns: "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry." It appears to be heading that way looking at the third quarter economic scorecard in the Eurozone. Advance estimates show that the single currency region's ...

Chief investment officer retires

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... companies WAM Capital and WAM Microcap. He is currently the portfolio manager responsible for these LICs as well as WAM Research and WAM Active. He joined the fund manager in 2006, following a role at Challenger. Wilson said he has enjoyed Stott's ...

Real return funds underperforming

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... less than some traditional multi-asset funds as real return managers winded down their equities exposures. Latest Zenith research found real return funds cut their Aussie equities allocations from 13.6% in December 2016 to 4.5% in June this year, as ...

Macquarie, CFS top Aussie fund manager list

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... Overall, Australia's largest fund manager assets jumped more than 18% to US$1.3 trillion year-on-year. WTW head of manager research Dania Zinurova said: "There is an increasing interest from investors in high conviction active strategies in Australia ...

Fintechs in the money, gain confidence

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
The fintech sector is bullish it can grab market share from big banks and incumbents with the advent of open banking and as the fallout from the Royal Commission plays out, EY's latest fintech census shows. With one-in-five fintechs now turning a profit ...

Chief economist update: BOJ on a steady

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
The Bank of Japan (BOJ) starts its two-day monetary policy meeting today and it's not about to give financial markets a Halloween spook when it announces the policy board's decision tomorrow. Monetary policy settings will remain unchanged - ...