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Industry butt heads over super guarantee

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 13 FEB 2020
Superannuation industry professionals are going head to head over Australia's super guarantee system, yet all agree it's time for an upheaval. In a submission to the Treasury's Retirement Income Review Panel, the Actuaries Institute called for universal ...

Perpetual awards mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2020
An American fund manager has scored Perpetual as its first Aussie institutional client with a credit mandate. Perpetual has mandated Thornburg Investment Management which is headquartered in Santa Fe, New Mexico and represented here by Melbourne-based ...

Super fund reveals ASX 100 equality laggards

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2020
... best to worst when it comes to gender equality in the workplace. The Gender Equality Report also recommended changes the Aussie businesses could make to address gender inequality. Future Super said the investor community had the power to change the narrative. ...

Surplus may not be as advertised: Grattan

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... budget surplus, spending may be on the horizon. She argued the government had gone quiet on the budget surplus following the Aussie bushfire crisis. "Economic growth, we know from previous disasters, you take a hit and then you bounce back as rebuilding ...

Australia's fastest growing investment managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
A Chicago fund manager tops the list of the 50 fastest-growing investment managers that raise assets from Aussie investors, according to Rainmaker Research. William Blair, whose Sydney office is led by Alexander Rolfe, swelled its FUM from just $7 million ...

Argo Investments' profit plunges

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
... investment company. Argo issued a cautionary yet optimistic outlook for the coming months, arguing the coronavirus outbreak and Aussie bushfire crisis will add fuel to the market's already volatile fire, denting the second half outlook for some of Australia's ...

PIMCO puts Aussie LIT on ice

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2020
The fixed income giant has pulled the brakes on its $1 billion listed investment trust, as the Treasury conducts a public consultation on stamping fees for LICs and LITs. PIMCO announced plans to raise for the LIT in November last year, in what was ...

Bearish sentiment bites Aussie investors

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
Aussie investors have swapped the bull for the bear, as macroeconomic and geopolitical tensions weigh heavily on high hopes for a repeated 2019. That's according to the latest research from Investment Trends, which found that investor sentiment ...

US firm makes second bid for Aussie fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
A US-based investment giant has made a second bid for an Australian property fund with a $485 million takeover offer. Starwood Capital made the all-cash offer at $2.98 per unit for Australian Unity Office Fund (AOF) over a year after its first failed ...

Millennials not attracted to property

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
Low return expectations may be impacting first home purchases among younger Aussies, with investors turning towards equities and bonds to reap stronger returns. That's according to the latest analysis from Fidelity, which compared real (inflation-adjusted) ...