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Milford makes key appointments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
Trans-Tasman fund manager Milford Asset Management has grown its team with two key appointments. Marissa Rossi has been appointed head of sustainable investments and Jason Kururangi has been appointed senior analyst in the Australian equities team. ...

SG verdict: Choose your own adventure

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 20 NOV 2020
In a catch 22, the final report says keeping SG at 9.5% will shrink Australian's final retirement balances by 12-18%, but increase working-life income by 2%. Australians will retire with 12% to 18% thinner final balances if the government sticks ...

COVID-19 to remain dominant in 2021

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
The end of 2020 is not likely to see the end of COVID-19, particularly when it comes to the impact it has on global markets. J.P. Morgan Asset Management (JPMAM) explored the trends that will impact portfolios in its annual Long-Term Capital Market ...

T. Rowe Price recruits analysts

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
T. Rowe Price has hired two Sydney-based analysts to strengthen its Australian equities capability and client support. Nick Vidale joins as an investment analyst from Perpetual where he was an equity analyst for over three years. Vidale is responsible ...

Pengana launches new Israel equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
Pengana Capital is partnering with an Israeli fund manager to launch a new tech-focused fund that invests in 30 stocks for local wholesale investors. The Pengana Alpha Israel Fund is managed by Alpha LTI, an equities boutique founded in 2005 that currently ...

Fund managers' ESG beef

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
Fund managers with a focus on ESG must be wary of supply chains, especially where meat and dairy industry are involved, according to new data. The Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index found that the world's largest meat, fish and dairy producers are ...

Fintech hires in Australian expansion

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
A US-based fintech has appointed a head of international sales, who will be tasked with driving revenue growth in Australia and New Zealand. Jason O'Shaughnessy steps into the role at data aggregation and analytics for financial services provider Envestnet ...

Chief economist update: V for vaccine

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas. Encouraging test results for a COVID-19 vaccine developed by Pfizer and BioNTech sent world equity markets from New York to Rio and ol' London town on the up and up and up. Pfizer and BioNTech are ...

Hastings founder launches new fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
... underlying investments in four sectors. This includes renewables (four wind farms across South Australia and Victoria), utilities (Tas Gas and Western Australia's Esperance Energy), energy (Western Australia's Kwinana Power and Neerabup Power) ...

MIRA set to acquire REIT

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 NOV 2020
Macquarie Infrastructure and Real Assets (MIRA) is proposing to acquire a real estate investment trust valued at $300 million. MIRA is offering to take over Vitalharvest Freehold Trust (VTH) for a cash consideration of $1 per share by way of a trust ...