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Australian Ethical mulls Facebook divestment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2019
... scandal, BetaShares removed Facebook from its Global Sustainability Leaders ETF (ETHI). ETHI is the largest ethical global equities ETF traded on the ASX. However, Palmer said the question of whether Facebook, and other social media companies, can be ...

Colonial First State hires retail sales head

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2019
... Quirk moves into the role after Laird Abernethy left late last year. Abernethy is now the managing director at global equities boutique GQG Partners. In March last year, CFS also hired BT Financial Group's head of platforms Kelly Power as CFS's general ...

Former Arnhem partners join boutiques

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2019
... capability for more than eight years. Maas joined Northcape Capital in December 2018 as a portfolio manager for global equities. Fleur Wright also joined the global equity team in August 2018, following a 14-year tenure at UBS. She is the former managing ...

K2 posts losses, signs on distributor

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2019
... strategic and organisational improvements made in FY17 and FY18." The K2 Australian Small Cap Fund lost 10.7%, the Global Equities Fund lost 8.6% and the High Alpha Fund lost 7.7%. Its Australian Absolute Return Fund lost 11.3%, the Select International ...

Future Fund delivers 5.8%

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2019
... previous 10 years," Future Fund chief executive David Neal said. The year-end asset allocation stands at: 23.6% in global equities (25.5% at June 30), 15.8% in private equity (14.1% previously), 14.6% in alternative assets (15.4% previously), 14.5% in ...

Tough quarter for world's largest pension fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... heavily tilted towards stocks with about half its total assets spread in an even split across local Japanese and global equities. Domestic bonds were less at about 28% of the total assets, while foreign bonds made up about 17%, at December end. Returns ...

Labour and housing drive rate sentiment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... supportive of Australian bonds in the short to medium term. For Australian equities, DWS is currently neutral within global equities but expects slower EPS growth. One Australian equities manager who differs from Taylor on rate cuts is Lazard Asset Management ...

Parametric critiques Productivity Commission's final report

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... has hardly been exploited to date." Early in December last year, Parametric won a $200 million custom mandate in global equities from an unnamed super fund.

Watermark pulls out of global equities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2019
Watermark Funds Management is shuttering its global equities business, saying farewell to a number of senior staff. The ASX-listed fund manager announced it is in the process of liquidating its international exposures and will return to its original ...

Principal appoints Australian country head

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2019
... Global Investors manages $4.5 billion on behalf of Australian institutional and retail clients across real estate, global equities and fixed income.