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Kapstream creates new fund

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
Kapstream Capital will soon launch its new investment strategy, including a second fund to sit alongside the fixed income manager's flagship Absolute Return Income Fund. Kapstream director of investment strategy James Bloom told Financial Standard the ...

Pre-retirees confident about nest egg: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2018
Financial Standard's latest spot poll reveals its readers are fairly confident and optimistic they will have more than enough money upon retiring. More than half (60%) of respondents are confident they will not experience any financial shortfall. One-in-four ...

ABDO unveils top investment strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2018
Absolute returns, value and global diversification are key thematics that must underscore clients' portfolios in a post-GFC world, according to investment experts speaking at this year's Financial Standard Advisers Big Day Out. Held at the Four Seasons ...

Chief economist update: Home cooling

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAR 2018
... report showed credit to housing slowing to 6.3% in the year to December from 6.6% three months earlier as a result of tighter macro-prudential regulations. Recall that, the Australian Prudential Regulations Authority (APRA) limited interest-only loans ...

PIMCO sells Aussie banks as correction looms

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2018
PIMCO is winding down its exposure to Australian banks and certain real estate investment trusts as risks increase in these investments. In an outlook report, PIMCO portfolio manager Aaditya Thakur and credit research analyst John Dwyer said that while ...

HNWIs give a boost to resurgent art market: Research

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... the global art market by 12% after two years of decline. UBS, in partnership with Art Basel, published a report containing macro-level analysis of global art-buying habits and found the market is now estimated at about US$63.7 billion. The US remains ...

Chief economist update: Australia cruising at low altitude

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 8 MAR 2018
... that not only paints an image of the overall economy, but also informs investors about important trends within the bigger macro-economic picture. Ben Ong is the Director of Economics and Investments at Rainmaker Group. He previously worked as a fund ...

MLC, ANU boost alternatives strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
MLC and Australian National University will ramp up allocations to alternative assets in 2018, according to latest Preqin research. Preqin highlighted the two Australian firms in its alternative assets outlook report, which surveyed more than 550 institutional ...

Macrovue bets on 5G technology

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
Macrovue's latest offering in thematic investments will give investors exposure to 10 "high-conviction" 5G stocks spread across the world. "5G is a huge investment opportunity because we are going to see a huge structural change all across the world ...

Former wealth group chief joins Macrovue

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 22 FEB 2018
AMP-supported fintech Macrovue has appointed a wealth management veteran as its new chief executive. Rod Bristow joins Macrovue in the lead role from Infocus, where he was managing director and chief executive for five years. Before that, he was national ...