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US election: Global investors fear inflation boom

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 NOV 2024
... presidential election, sending US markets soaring overnight as investors anticipate lower taxes. However, concerns remain over trade tariffs and the impacts on inflation. Principal Asset Management chief global strategist Seema Shah said that while US ...

FCA changes bonds, derivatives transparency rules

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 NOV 2024
... UK branches of overseas firms undertaking investment services and activities. One of the changes will simplify the post-trade transparency regime and make it timelier based on fewer deferrals for bonds and certain over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. ...

AllianceBernstein managing director departs

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2024
AllianceBernstein managing director, Australia client group Brad Karp has announced he will leave the investment firm. Karp has been with the firm for close to 24 years. Prior to that he held roles at AXA as business manager - Australian equities and ...

JP Morgan subsidiaries fined $230m by regulator

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
The fine relates to several failures by J.P. Morgan Securities and J.P. Morgan Investment Management, including recommending more expensive mutual funds when almost identical ETFs were available much cheaper. J.P. Morgan Securities (JPMS) and J.P. Morgan ...

Cbus names chief strategy officer

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 1 NOV 2024
... funds and influence government policy. Before working in super, Dean worked as an organiser with the Australian Council of Trade Unions in the mid-1990s before becoming a political adviser to former Victorian premier Steve Bracks. He then joined the ...

Active managers find no saviour in dual access products

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
... of the Australian ETP market, which are, for the most part, not actively managed, but are cheaper to own and cheaper to trade than actively managed unit trusts," it said. The research also found dual access ETPs were more likely to have negative net ...

CFS unveils fund manager, fee changes to FirstChoice

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
... well-established multinational companies, seeking opportunities from global economic growth and changing patterns of world trade and economic relationships. FirstChoice Employer Super will also see several changes from the CFS Multi-Manager Single Sector ...

Global equity, AREIT managers biggest underperformers: S&P Dow Jones

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 OCT 2024
Australian global equity and AREIT fund managers prove to be the biggest underperformers over the long term as more than 86% lag the index, an S&P Dow Jones Indices report finds. Australian fund managers, who invest in general global equities, continue ...

Making a splash: The economic impact of AUKUS

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 OCT 2024
... defence spending that's only just a little over one-half that of the US level," he said. Quiggin said Australia's trade relations with China is reflective of the period of hostility in which AUKUS was signed. This comprised several export restrictions ...

ACTU slams plans to Americanise the superannuation system

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2024
The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) has criticised comments made by shadow treasurer Angus Taylor, claiming they reveal the "Coalition's dream of dismantling super." In a speech at the University of Sydney on Wednesday, Taylor said a collapse ...