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Aware Super eyes IFAs, hires lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... Aware has been "working hard to build on WA Super's legacy in this space and develop a compelling national IFA offering". In March, Aware restructured its financial advice offering, resulting in some redundancies. Gribble joins the fund from BT Financial ...

Chief economist update: The (dot) plot thickens

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUN 2021
... meeting (from four three months earlier) and those predicting higher interest rates by 2023 rising from seven out of 18 in March to 13 at the recently-concluded meeting - with 11 officials expecting not one, but two, hikes. To be sure, Wall Street's ...

ASIC drops Regal action

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2021
... standards." Last year, Regal's Atlantic Absolute Return suffered from the COVID-19 market volatility having fallen 58.6% in March then rising 12.5% in May. The fund has since regained significant losses and is returning 21.20% over the financial year ...

L1 Capital launches activist fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... activism. The Catalyst Fund, which launches on July 1, will be led by James Hawkins, who joined L1 Capital as a partner in March. The high-conviction equity fund invests long-only in the top 200 Australian public companies, using shareholder activism ...

Chief economist update: Anchoring the recovery

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2021
... Stoxx-50 index has rallied by 16.3% this year to date and by a whopping 73.2% since the pandemic low it plumbed back in March 2020. Then again, as Madame Lagarde pointed out, while the Eurozone's economic outlook is heading in the right direction ...

Chief economist update: Deflated expectations lift deflation expectations

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUN 2021
... To be sure, latest data show that Japanese annual headline inflation remains in deflation (-0.4% in April from -0.2% in March) - the seventh straight month of falling prices. So does core inflation. Its annual growth rate has remained negative for the ...

Sunsuper, QSuper appoint leadership team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... the list. Naming the leadership team is the latest development in the merger process, which was officially announced in March. This was followed by confirmation that Reilly would lead the merged fund, with current QSuper chair Don Luke as chair of the ...

Metrics adds three investment directors

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... Metrics Credit Partners has added three to its investment team, after acquiring a slice of Investec's Australian assets in March. Mathew Fulton, Marc Hurwitz and are joining Metrics as investment directors. Both are former members of the Investec Australia ...

Hostplus holds on to MySuper top spot

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUN 2021
... single-strategy options, Hostplus came out on the top with 24.4% in the year to April end. Hostplus' returns made a comeback in March. It was followed by AustralianSuper (20.4%), Cbus and Vision Super (19.4% each) and TWUSuper (19.1%). In last year's ...

Halifax auditors face criminal charges

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUN 2021
... $52,500 for the charge against EC Audit. Halifax was placed into administration in November 2018 and entered liquidation in March 2019. ASIC cancelled its AFSL in January 2021. The regulator had been looking into the company for some time, with ASIC ...