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First State Super awards $1.6bn mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
First State Super has awarded a $1.6 billion emerging market equities mandate. Neuberger Berman will provide systematic exposure to selected risk premia in emerging market equities for the $71 billion, 759,000-member super fund. Neuberger Berman Australia ...

Majority of Australians without financial plan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2016
Baby boomers are more optimistic than their younger counterparts, with 51% of generation X fearing they won't have enough money to retire compared to 40% of baby boomers, according to new research from the Financial Planning Association of Australia ...

Flat Australian dividends help case for global diversification

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
The latest Henderson Global Dividend Index reinforces the need for Australian investors to seek income in offshore markets as Australian equities continued to produce flat dividends. Dividends in Australia fell 0.2% on an underlying basis in the three ...

Local hedge funds fighting for insto attention

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
Local hedge funds are still battling super funds' preference to look offshore for alternatives exposure, according to Hedge Funds Rock and The Australian Hedge Fund Awards co-founder Kim Ivey. Ahead of the awards night in September, Ivey said this is ...

Social benefit bond returns for NGS Super

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
Industry fund NGS Super says an investment in Australia's first social benefit bond has rewarded members with both social and financial returns, aligning with the fund's environmental, social and ethical investment framework. The New Parent and Infant ...

GBST profits down in "year of transformation"

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
Financial technology firm GBST has recorded a 39% fall in net profit to $9.3 million from $15.3 million in 2015. The company's managing director Robert DeDominicis attributed the result to it being a "year of transformation" for the business. "Following ...

Read the data not the Fed's lips

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2016
Yes, no, maybe, I don't know. Sit down, buckle up and hang on Virginia for we're heading into the 'Hole' - Jackson Hole, that is. There'll be to-ing and fro-ing aplenty leading up to Janet's homily at 'The Hole' this coming Thursday and Friday and perhaps ...

Blue Sky founder departs, new MD appointed

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
Blue Sky Alternative Investments managing director Mark Sowerby has announced his retirement and a successor has been appointed. From September 30, current Blue Sky chief operating officer Rob Shand will become managing director. Shand has been with ...

Efficiency key to performance in low-return world

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
Institutions are looking for custodians to improve administrative efficiency to boost performance in a low-return climate, according to BNP Paribas research. BNP's Investment and Operations Outlook 2016 report includes research based on a survey of ...

Combination of fiscal and monetary policy essential for Japan

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2016
Japan must look to a combination of fiscal and monetary policy if it wishes to achieve the structural reform as set out in the third arrow of Abenomics, according to QIC Shocking global markets with the announcement of negative cash rates in late January ...