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Short-seller targets infant formula importer

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... Chinese e-commerce stores that the lactose in its goat milk infant formula comes from goats, when the Company admits in European and American markets that the lactose in its goat milk infant formula comes from cows," the Blue Orca report said. "We believe ...

Chief economist update: Global easing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 AUG 2019
... uncertainties indicate that Tokyo would have to do much more stimulation. Whatever happened to Abe's three arrows? The European Central Bank's (ECB) main refinancing rate had been at zero since March 2016 and while it had ended QE in December ...

Chief economist update: The UK is not OK

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 AUG 2019
... given indications of slowing and even fears of a recession in the US - which accounts for 19% of total exports - and the European Union - which purchases 45.6% of the UK's total shipments. This could only worsen given latest speculations that Germany ...

Platinum funds leak over $100m

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 AUG 2019
... end. The $54 million outflows include its international Fund, the Platinum Unhedged Fund, Platinum Asia Fund, Platinum European Fund, Platinum Japan Fund, Platinum International Brands Fund, Platinum International Healthcare Fund, Platinum Technology ...

IFM Investors reports $114m in FY19 profits

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 JUL 2019
... operational capabilities in the year ahead rather than opening new offices. However, it plans to go ahead with the new European office, most likely to be in Amsterdam. IFM is seeing the consolidation in Australian funds management businesses as an opportunity ...

Pendal Group appoints international business lead

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUL 2019
... Sandaire Altinger was senior business development director, institutional business at Lansdowne Partners and director of European financial intermediaries at Wellington management. Earlier in her career, Altinger was an equity research analyst at John ...

Irish pension funds reduce equity exposure

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... their exposure to equities and diversifying into property, infrastructure and hedge funds instead. Mercer's 2019 European Asset Allocation survey also shows average equity allocations for Irish defined benefit schemes have fallen to just 28%, down ...

Impact investing under threat

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
... investment strategy. The report, issued by The 2 Degrees Investing Initiative, looked at impact-washing in light of the European Union's new ecolabel for environmentally friendly investments. AMP Capital head of ESG investment research Ian Woods ...

Aussie HNWIs slip down global rankings

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUL 2019
Australia's high-net-worth population slumped in the rankings of a global wealth study as millionaires shifted their portfolio to cash amid share market uncertainty. According to Capgemini's annual World Wealth Report, the number of Australian ...

Sovereign investors go back to fixed income

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... economic growth and perceptions of rising political risk have led to a decline in the perceived attractiveness of major European economies. Brexit is now influencing asset allocation decisions for 64% of sovereigns, while internal politics in continental ...