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Aberdeen drops fees on fixed income fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2020
... monitor the fees. The fund invests in Australian fixed income instruments, including government, semi government, asset-backed securities and others. At September end, about 79% of its portfolio was in fixed rate bonds, followed by 13.4% in floating ...

Boutique builds out executive team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 27 OCT 2020
... compliance, joining from Pepa Consulting and JBWere. Rebecca Mete was hired as client services manager in October. The firm is backed by Australian and US private capital, and led by Sayers, the founder and executive chair, who after nearly 19 years ...

Chant West head of client development to retire

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... for clients and had a team of two reporting into him. After Chant West sold its superannuation business to private-equity-backed Zenith Investment Partners, Peck reported the newly-appointed chief operating officer Jason Huddy. His last day will be December ...

Hostplus invests in vegan meat, sustainability

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2020
... an important balance to listed assets, which can often be more volatile," it said. The fund has invested in Jack Cowin-backed v2food, the company behind Hungry Jack's vegan Rebel Whopper burger and its creation of a vegan alternative to animal meat. ...

Chief economist update: Middle Kingdom on top

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... Economic Outlook Interim Report that, "All G20 countries with the exception of China will have suffered recession in 2020" and backed by the IMF's October 2020 "World Economic Outlook" predicting Chinese GDP growth of 1.9% this year and 8.2% in 2021. ...

Australian Business Growth Fund launches

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
The government backed Australian Business Growth Fund has launched, to be led by former JB Were chair Anthony Healy. Healy has been appointed the inaugural chief executive of the fund and Will Hodgman, former premier of Tasmania, has been appointed ...

New property fund launches

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
A new property investment fund has launched, backed by the Buxton family. Corsair Investment Management has been launched by MaxCap founding partner Michael Fowler and the Buxton family, which is responsible for property developing company Buxton Group. ...

The Big Issue launches investment platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
The Big Issue has launched an impact-investing platform, The Big Exchange, backed by investment management giants aiming to build a new financial system that makes a difference. The Big Issue Group in the UK, with the help of fund managers like Aberdeen ...

Fresh fundies outperform

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
A small cap fund backed by two fresh-faced investors with no prior funds management experience has managed to outperform the benchmark consistently since its inception in July 2018. As of August 31, Spatium Capital's Small Companies Fund returned ...

Sydney boutique sharpens focus on HNWs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 9 OCT 2020
... been in the insto market but it's once again shifting focus to HNW investors. "From 2006 onwards, [our funds] were backed by large instos and there has been a hiatus on finding opportunities for HNW families. But we are now finding assets at that ...