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Changes on Perpetual Industrial Shares Fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2021
Perpetual is moving its Industrial Shares Fund from a co-portfolio manager structure to a single-PM structure, and will bid farewell to a long-standing investor. Anthony Cay co-managed the Perpetual Industrial Shares Strategy with Anthony Aboud. The ...

Kin Group bids to takeover McPherson's

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAR 2021
Family office Kin Group has moved to acquire consumer products and wellness company McPherson's via its subsidiary Gallin. Gallin is offering McPherson's (ASX: MCP) investors $1.34 per share, a 9.8% premium on the 24 March 2021 close price of ...

Chief economist update: Powell said, Yellen said

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2021
The monetary and fiscal masters of the US of A fronted the Senate Banking Committee - as required under the March 2020 COVID-19 relief law - singing a rendition of Louis Armstrong's What a Wonderful World. In his testimony, Federal Reserve chair ...

Chief economist update: The do-nothing Fed

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
Ho-hum. So much for speculations over the Fed's thoughts and actions, Powell and Co. did what financial markets expected - nothing - at their 16-17 March FOMC meeting. "The Committee decided to keep the target range for the federal funds rate at ...

Turnbull calls out Wilson, Bragg

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
... here in Australia and there is a bunch of reasons for that, but diverting even more savings into housing is simply going to bid up the price of housing." Turnbull went on to call out Wilson and Bragg specifically for their suggestions of allowing first ...

GROW Super rebrands

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
GROW Super has rebranded to GROW Inc in a bid to diversify away from its superannuation offering. GROW Inc offers business and data intelligence software to growing companies, underpinned by distributed ledger technology. GROW, for example, integrates ...

Bellmont expands distribution capability

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
Bellmont Securities has hired a sales manager of adviser solutions in a bid to expand its managed accounts offering. Ben Bell joined the Sydney-based firm this month, recently working at Aberdeen Standard Investments (ASI) as an associate director in ...

Chief economist update: Confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAR 2021
Australia is once again being infected - infected with optimism, that is. We have discussed previously how the domestic economy has contracted less sharply than its peers and has rebounded stronger relative to its peer, later confirmed by the OECD 'Economic ...

Chief economist update: OECD sees stronger growth ahead

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
The year 2021 is shaping up to be a mirror image of the year that preceded it - annus horribilis 2020 - when economic growth forecasts were being sliced as the coronavirus epidemic that started in China turned into a pandemic of biblical proportions. ...

Perpetual promotes on Aussie equities team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAR 2021
... fund's wholesale version had $631 million in assets and has been running since 1996. The smaller companies fund in December bid farewell to Dean Fremder, who was hired as a dedicated small caps analyst in 2019 to assist lead manager Jack Collopy. ...