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ClearView adds to leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
The diversified financial services business has made a raft of changes to its leadership team, including a fresh life insurance lead and new general manager of wealth management. ClearView has today announced a series of key management changes as part ...

QIC hires former Frontier infrastructure head

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
QIC has named a new portfolio manager for its $1.8 billion core infrastructure fund, previously managed by Ross Israel and Matina Papathanasiou. Peter Siapikoudis will manage the QIC Infrastructure Portfolio (QIP). Siapikoudis was most recently a managing ...

UBS, Insight IM win Future Fund mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
UBS and Insight Investment Management won significant mandates last financial year, helping manage the equities portfolio for the $161 billion Future Fund. According to the sovereign wealth fund's FY20 annual report, UBS won an Aussie equities ...

Pandemic batters life insurers

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... distribution strategies. One positive finding is that the sector continues to be well capitalised, with this year's capital-coverage ratio remaining consistent with the prior year at 1.8. Overall, Kells said the life insurance industry now faces ...

Morgan Stanley to acquire Eaton Vance

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
Morgan Stanley has entered an agreement to acquire Eaton Vance for close to $10 billion. The two parties have entered a definitive agreement which will see Morgan Stanley advance its plans to have three world-class business units in institutional securities ...

Perpetual axes geared investment options

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
A number of underperforming super options have been axed by Perpetual. Perpetual has terminated its Geared High Growth option, Geared Australian Share option and its Capital Guarantee option for Perpetual Select Super members. Members were notified ...

Ratings deteriorate at AMP

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... have deferred repayments during the COVID-19 pandemic, which is broadly in line with the system," it said. "The bank's capital position is good, with the bank reporting a common equity Tier 1 (CET1) ratio of 10.5% as at June 2020. Furthermore, the broader ...

Low rates put retirees at risk: Vanguard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
Retirees will need to be 100% allocated to equities and greatly elevate their portfolio risk to meet most income needs in the current low yield environment, according to Vanguard. Vanguard's latest research paper titled An enduring solution for ...

Bermuda-based fund launches down under

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
A boutique manager has launched its Bermuda-based fund to the Australian market, with underlying assets in US life insurance policies. The Life Settlements Fund is projected to return 8-12% per annum according to its manager Laureola Advisors, with ...

AMP Capital launches infra debt strategy

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
AMP Capital has launched a new infrastructure debt strategy, set to help investors capitalise on emerging growth opportunities in the Asia Pacific region. The Infrastructure Debt Asia Pacific strategy will target infrastructure mezzanine debt opportunities ...