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Insurer awards $80m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... "In a time when investors are seeking differentiated sources of alpha for a compelling fee, H2O's returns in global macro - from bonds and currencies in particular - have outstripped some of the world's best performing managers. "H2O has built ...

Chief economist update: Predictions allude to frozen RBA

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2018
... brave RBA that'll raise interest rates come 2020. Still, no economy operates in a vacuum and 2020 is still a long away, macro dynamics are bound to change.

ETFs: Buy strategy not structure

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
The managing director at a Sydney-based global equities manager accepts the seismic and long-term shift of investor money to exchange-traded funds, but said one core element is often forgotten in this development. Antipodes Partners managing director ...

Guy Stern retires from ASI

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
Aberdeen Standard Investments' global head of multi-asset and macro investing is retiring after more than 10 years at the firm. Guy Stern joined Standard Life Investments in April 2008 as head of multi-asset management. He was also responsible for ...

Future Fund boosts alternatives assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... York-based Key Square Capital Management and California-based Clocktower Group were awarded an alternatives mandate to oversee macro-directional strategies. This asset class is co-managed with 12 others, including Pendal Group, Bridgewater Associates ...

Chief economist update: The Middle Kingdom's middling growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2018
It's the first Tuesday of November - the time when the "Melbourne Cup" runs and the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) meets only a few hours apart. All bets are on! There are so many odds on the various horses running in the Cup but there's only ...

Chief economist update: Americans who want work will find it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... 2001. The strong labour market not only suggests strong consumer spending but even stronger consumer spending for the US macro economy. This is because while gaining employment provides income - and in this case, offers of higher salaries - more employed ...

Former UBS multi-asset expert joins boutique

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... in Sydney. Fixed income and multi-asset specialist Tracey McNaughton joined Wilsons Advisory this month as head of global macro strategy. For the last five years, McNaughton helped manage UBS' multi-asset team in providing economic and investment ...

TCorp finalises restructure

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 NOV 2018
... implications. Her 25 years' experience in asset management includes senior roles at Macquarie Group as head of Australian macro research and Credit Suisse as head of quantitative analysis for Australian equities. Derek Mock joins TCorp as a senior ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone growth slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
Uh-oh! Borrowing a quote from Robert Burns: "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry." It appears to be heading that way looking at the third quarter economic scorecard in the Eurozone. Advance estimates show that the single currency region's ...