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Bentham hires AMP Capital analyst

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
Bentham Asset Management appointed a senior analyst specialising in bank capital securities. Linden Smith joins Bentham from AMP Capital, where he was a senior credit analyst in the firm's credit research team. In his role Smith was also the main port ...

FICAP RockStar fundraiser draws record support

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
FICAP, the Financial Industry Community Aid Program, has announced the details of its much anticipated Who wants to be a RockStar event. The annual RockStar event enters its 11th year in 2017, and will be held on Thursday, 23 March. FICAP is shaking ...

ANZ appoints wealth CIO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... spent 16 years at UBS in senior economics and global asset management roles and a decade as an economist for the Reserve Bank of Australia. In the new role Rider will be responsible for the delivery of all aspects of ANZ's investment strategy, including ...

Asset manager appoints Aussie distribution head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
A former senior institutional business development manager at Challenger is the first Australian head of distribution for global asset manager CQS. Louise Watson joined CQS last month, with her appointment marking a significant step in CQS' Australian ...

Females and Gen Y expecting less

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
Australian women's expectation of a well-paid job earns $14,000 less a year than that of a man's. Research commissioned by NAB shows Australian men consider a salary of $127,271 as being well-paid, yet their female counterparts are happy to settle for ...

Trump matters

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2017
... what he'll do next continue to dominate the headlines and Twitter-verse. So much so that only few gave a hoo-ha to central bank monetary policy announcements - the BOJ, the Fed, and the BOE met in late January/early Feb. Few also gave a hoo-ha on Fedspeak ...

Look offshore for income: SSGA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
Australia's yield appetite will no longer be sated by income-oriented portfolios that invest solely in domestic assets. A new paper from State Street Global Advisors' SPDR ETF business argues that because of low interest rates and the heavy sector concentration ...

Perpetual hires former Count CEO

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... by industry luminary Barry Lambert in 1980. Prior to that, he was general manager of strategic development in Commonwealth Bank's wealth management division and chief operating officer for Neuberger Berman's hedge fund business. He has also held roles ...

Bonds aiding not-for-profit investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... to 2% higher returns than term deposits. "When considering asset allocation, the middle ground between lending money to a bank as a depositor (term deposits) and becoming a part owner of a company as a shareholder (buying shares) is to lend to governments ...

Mexican pain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2017
... flow through into consumer price inflation, Banco de Mexico has responded by raising interest rates. The Mexican central bank lifted its key interest rates by another 50 basis points to 6.25% on 9 February. This is the highest rate since April 2009 and ...