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ASIC delivers thinly veiled warning

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... risk unlisted and illiquid assets." Low interest rates and market volatility may be driving consumers to seek such alternatives, ASIC fears. The regulator made no specific mention of Mayfair 101 in the warning to consumers. ASIC deputy chair Karen Chester ...

Frontier Advisors makes key appointments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... has announced several new faces will be joining its senior team. Joe Clark and James Bulfin will join Frontier's alternatives and derivatives research team as senior consultants. Clark joins from QIC where he was senior quantitative strategist and portfolio ...

Boutique manager taps former Challenger executive

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
A liquid alternatives investment manager has added a new chief risk officer, hiring from Challenger. Sydney-based manager Darling Macro has appointed Mark Swan as its new chief risk officer. Swan joins the manager from Challenger, having served as senior ...

Challenger winds up boutique partnership

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... investing. At the time of partnering, Fidante said the partnership was consistent with its strategy of expanding its alternatives suite. However, in the March quarter the two wound up their partnership and Fidante returned about $500 million to clients. ...

Market pain to continue: State Street

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 APR 2020
... seen in markets. "Performance wise, although we maintained diversified exposures across equities, fixed income and alternatives the fund delivered a negative return in March."

Ironbark fund rating under review

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
A $180 million multi-manager alternatives fund from Ironbark has been put under review at Morningstar as the ratings house waits for clarity on March quarter performance. The Ironbark LHP Diversified Investments invests in 25 to 50 sub-managers of alternative ...

BlackRock profits slump during COVID-19

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2020
... in other asset classes also reported positive inflows: equities (US$3.2 billion), multi-asset (US$ 4.4 billion), alternatives (US$9.2 billion). In terms of investment style, long-term, active, and index and ETFs were all out of favour, while cash management ...

Not buy time yet: Lonsec

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... awaits clarity in the lead up to a rebalance. In the past few weeks, it has added gold into the portfolio under its alternatives allocation. In fixed income, it had added a relative value strategy, which de Pourbaix says us less sensitive to credit or ...

Self-isolation to accelerate secular trends

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... vendor and a superior bundled price versus value proposition," he said. He said the firm finds it hard to see SaaS alternatives maintaining superior products to the American giant. "Like Google, Microsoft has an unparalleled research and development ...

Product provider partners with BTFG

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... across a diversified range of Australian equities, global equities, property, infrastructure, fixed interest, and alternatives.