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Challenger head of retail departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 NOV 2019
... previous high-profile hire at the boutique. In June, Yarra poached Ellerston's chief economist Tim Toohey as its head of macro and strategy.

WTW launches first Australian-domiciled fund, names RE

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
... low-return environment where equity investors are looking for a stronger and more sustainable source of excess returns. "We know macro events are weighing on markets - trade wars, Brexit, recessionary influences, potential quantitative easing - leading ...

Chief economist update: Good news is good news

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2019
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas has come early... and Thanksgiving too. Wall Street benchmark equity indices rallied at the close of trading last week: The S&P 500 added 1.0% to a new all-time high; the Nasdaq closed 1.1% up but not ...

No room for policy mistakes

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 22 OCT 2019
In its world economic update for October, the International Monetary Fund said that the global economy is in a synchronised slowdown. Growth for 2019 was downgraded again to 3%, its slowest pace since the global financial crisis. "This is a serious ...

Trillionaires around the corner: study

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 OCT 2019
The world is only six years away from welcoming its first trillionaire, according to a new study that looked at the private wealth of the world's richest denizens. Amazon founder and chief executive Jeff Bezos is on the way to becoming the first ...

Fixed income investors spooked by global politics: Fitch

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 OCT 2019
A Fitch Ratings report has found Australian fixed-income investors consider political and geopolitical risk to be the greatest threat to domestic credit markets in the year to come. The Fitch Ratings fourth quarter 2019 fixed-income investor survey ...

Chief economist update: Zero here we go

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2019
... keeping the official cash rate at 1.5% for longer (from August 2016 to May 2019) than the dictates of global and domestic macro-economic fundamentals, it finds itself doing even more stitching. If only the RBA applied the opposite of what central banks ...

Departures on Aberdeen Standard fixed income team

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 SEP 2019
... the global platform. In February this year, ASI said it would integrate the Australian fixed income team, especially the macro team, into global and regional investment teams. This included aligning several global managers more formally with the local ...

Kapstream cuts fees on flagship fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 SEP 2019
... management fees, starting October 1. Kapstream managing director James Bloom said the fee cuts were driven by changes in the macro landscape driven by low rates, increased competition and its impending launch of an ETF vehicle for the strategy. "The ...

Tribeca Alpha Plus leaks $600m, rebuilds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 27 AUG 2019
... managers and culled three of them following underperformance. Under Liu's leadership, the fund is pivoting away from the macro to fundamentals but quant will remain a part of the process. "One change I have made to the fund is that we have taken ...