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Aussies instos join fight against weapons

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2019
Australian institutional investors joined a worldwide effort lobbying index providers to remove controversial weapons from global indices. Colonial First State and Vision Super have become signatories to an open letter calling for the exclusion of weapons ...

Aussies find $860m in lost super

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2019
More than $850 million of lost superannuation was found and consolidated towards the end of 2018. Releasing new data this week, the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) said more than 66,000 Australians found and consolidated some of their retirement savings ...

Chief economist update: The RBA capitulates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... expounding the point. Points, that we're now witnesses to immediately after yesterday's RBA's shift to neutral. The Aussie dollar exchange rate is down (1.6% versus the greenback) and longer term interest rates are lower: two-year notes fell ...

Royal Commission to suppress bank stocks

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2019
... Management chief investment officer Mark Arnold says the Brisbane-based fund manager does not invest in any bank stocks in its Aussie portfolios. "The reason for that is we are going into a deleveraging period," he told Financial Standard. This is bad ...

Yarra Capital adds to investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2019
... working as a single team. In December, Yarra took over as the investment manager for all of UBS Asset Management's Aussie equities funds, bringing in roughly $800 million of additional assets under management. UBS remained the responsible entity ...

Janus Henderson pulls out of Aussie equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2019
Janus Henderson Investors is shutting down its Australian equities funds and will return about $490 million of capital to investors. "Over the past 18 months, the manager's Australian equity (AEQ) investment desk has found it challenging to meaningfully ...

Aussie equities trading volume jumps at Liquidnet

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
Global and Aussie asset managers traded about $12 billion in Australian equities on Liquidnet's network in 2018, swelling 20% over the previous year. The increased volumes were a result of Australian members of the network using more algo trading ...

Labour and housing drive rate sentiment

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2019
... and consumer sentiment, and the US Federal Reserve's reaction amid global trade concerns. Both think being short the Aussie dollar is a good hedge. Up, down or sideways, if the rate moves, how can advisers and investors structure their portfolios ...

Industry Super Australia forecasts a rate cut

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
... past, Anthony noted. He sees the Australian dollar weakening to 0.65 against the US dollar over one to two years, making an Aussie dollar short a good hedge. Anthony is quick to point out that he is forecasting a rate cut, not inserting any sort of policy. ...

Chief economist update: Bring on Aussie dollar depreciation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2019
"Capital Economics sees the local currency falling to US60c this year and hovering there through 2020; it previously forecast it at US65c for 2019 and US70c for 2020." (Australian Financial Review) That's a whopping 15%-16% drop from A$/US$ exchange ...