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Pinnacle adds new boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
Ian Macoun's multi-boutique house has added an emerging markets boutique led by former Stewart Investors and Fidelity managers. London-based Aikya Investment Management will invest in emerging markets equities, and is Pinnacle's first Europe-based ...

Charter Hall kicks off $115m raise

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... raising is being conducted to strengthen CQE's balance sheet and ensure it can withstand any unexpected cash flow and valuation impacts from an extended COVID-19 pandemic," it said. "The equity raising will also provide CQE with the flexibility to continue ...

Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
With global markets rocking one way and the other in the last two months, it's not too far a stretch to imagine investors are feeling a little seasick, or at the least dumbfounded. Despite a recession knocking on the world's door, investors ...

Junk by name, junk by nature?

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
Junk bonds, despite the unfortunate name, aren't the trash of the investment world, although in the current uncertain environment they sure could be. These credit products are issued by governments and companies, and offer higher rates of return ...

Super CIOs defend illiquid assets

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... market plunge by 38% and then rise by 27%, and to put that up as a poster child of this is sort of cogent, rational valuation of future cash flow streams, I think is a notion that then in fact can be challenged," he said. LGIAsuper chief investment officer ...

ANZ profits halve, dividend deferred

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
ANZ has announced a 51% reduction in profits for 1H20 compared to last year as it defers its interim dividend awaiting greater clarity of the impact COVID-19 will have. The big bank's half-year results show a statutory profit after tax of $1.55 ...

BlackRock turns optimistic on credit

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
Central bank action including buying corporate bonds combined with cheapened valuation has led BlackRock Investment Institute to upgrade credit to a modest overweight. BlackRock's latest six to 12 month tactical views on major global asset classes (in ...

A case for flexible asset allocation: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... countries such as Italy, Spain and the US," Somaia said. "These views are driven by our research in to factors such as valuation and momentum which provide us a guidance on relative preferences over the coming weeks and months." Somaia said the fund ...

Future Fund falls 3.4% in March quarter

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
Australia's sovereign wealth fund lost 3.4% or about $6 billion in the March quarter, and is in no hurry to revalue its unlisted assets out of cycle unlike some superannuation funds. The Future Fund stood at $162 billion at March end, after returning ...

LGIAsuper revises down unlisted assets

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... property and infrastructure in response to COVID-19, joining AustralianSuper, UniSuper and Hostplus. LGIAsuper reduced the valuation of its property portfolio by 5% and infrastructure portfolio by 3%. The changes translate to a -1% reduction in returns ...