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Family office manager hires Discovery director

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... from Discovery Asset Management which shut shop last year. Peter Moller has joined Harper Bernays, which describes itself as one of Australia's "oldest and most discreet" investment management firms. Moller was most recently a director at Discovery Asset ...

Analysts remain wary as ASX breaks 7000

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... government intervention are all anti-growth in nature and are likely to continue to put downward pressure on the already sluggish one to two percent economic growth range in most developed economies. "Global equity markets have performed well YTD, the ...

Shareholder activism on the rise

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... be an 'activist'." The largest activist targets for 2019 were AT&T (US) and SAP (Germany), both who faced off with one of the world's largest activist funds, Elliott Management. The research also found that activism against non-US targets ...

Investment boutique makes PIMCO hire

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... hires to its team over the course of 2020 to ensure the boutique is resourced for future growth. Founded in 2008, Ardea is one of Australia's largest fixed income investment managers, currently managing over $13 billion for both institutional and retail ...

Cbus head of advice launches firm

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... as fees for no service but ASIC hasn't held them to account for it so far," he said. He says the Cbus referral program was one way that superannuation funds could overcome the peril of cross-subsidisation. During his time at Cbus, Harper pioneered Cbus's ...

Chief economist update: Fundamentally overvalued

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... would. The outlook for the global economy is improving backed by the de-escalation of the US-China trade tensions (the phase one deal had been signed), Brexit is no longer uncertain and major global central banks continue to maintain accommodative monetary ...

Climate crisis tops list of risks for 2020s

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... related environmental issues as the top five risks in terms of likelihood-the first time in the survey's history that one category has occupied all five of the top spots. "But despite the need to be more ambitious when it comes to climate action ...

Revolution Asset Management launches second fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... understood to be private banks, not-for-profits and HNWs. Fund II will have the same strategy and return profile as the original one. But this time, the boutique and its distribution partner Channel Capital have opted for an open-ended vehicle and will ...

J.P. Morgan wins custody mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
... result in cost savings for the company. "As part of the OnePlatform program mentioned in the update, Xplore will be moving to one custodian for all our offers," Xplore chief executive Michael Wright said. "J.P. Morgan was selected after a rigorous request ...

Why women struggle in financial advice

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2020
New research points the finger at conflicted remuneration as one of the factors keeping women out of the financial advice industry. The University of Otago in New Zealand and RMIT University in Melbourne have collaborated to explore why so many fewer ...