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Vanguard fund drops "cash plus" name

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... APRA's scrutiny of "cash plus" options in superannuation funds in a June, 2018 review. APRA at the time clarified asset-backed and mortgage-backed securities, commercial bonds, credit default swaps and hybrid debt instruments couldn't be passed ...

Sydney boutique wins $300m QIC mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2020
... million is committed. It invests predominantly in senior secured assets such as corporate leveraged loans, private asset backed securities (ABS) and real estate loans. "In terms of deal flow, what we have witnessed over the last two to three months is ...

COVID-19 propels advisers, incumbents into the future

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... industry needs to redefine risk and compliance as an opportunity to build strategic capability and efficiency, Axell said, backed by technology. Unsurprisingly, the report also found that fintechs are a strategic partnership opportunity for incumbents. ...

HESTA partners for global equities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2020
... (GLTU) team, led by Zehrid Osmani. The GLTU strategy is a high conviction portfolio focused on long-term outperformance and backed by proprietary and systematic fundamental research. HESTA's investment team also gains full access to Martin Currie's global ...

Chief economist update: Communists' party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
... face to the rest of the world" - and positive - fruit of its hard lockdown, responses. "Sour grapes" is what the state-backed 'Global Times' newspaper called the negative nellies. Adding that Wuhan is "now welcoming an influx of tourists, and ...

Chief economist update: Worse news is better news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
... over coming months for the Federal Reserve to increase its holdings of Treasury securities and agency residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) and CMBS at least at the current pace." "Noting the increase in uncertainty about the economic outlook ...

New 'cash plus' style sovereign bond fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... expecting to utilise the foreign exchange as a primary return driver because that would add volatility." He said the government-backed instruments the fund invests in are highly liquid, and held up well in March and April's illiquidity. "This is only ...

Platform business in administration

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
IFM Investors and Regal backed Spitfire has appointed administrators, as it looks to restructure the group after a shareholder reneged on promised funding. Olvera Advisors' Damien Hodgkinson and Kate Barnet were appointed as joint and several voluntary ...

Chief economist update: Good US employment news is not so good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2020
... and hospitality, government, retail trade, professional and business services, other services, and health care." This is backed up by the improvement in both big and small business activity and optimism. The Institute for Supply Management (ISM) manufacturing ...

Bain Capital begins restructure reckoning

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 AUG 2020
... provided with a two-year extension of employee travel benefits and early access to retiree and long service benefits." Backed by Bain Capital's $150 billion in assets under management, Virgin Australia will emerge from voluntary administration with ...