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Chief economist update: Australian Renaissance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... substantiates the OECD's projections. The NAB Business Survey showed that business confidence has steadily improved from -65 in March to -45 in April to -20 in May. Similarly, consumer confidence advanced from a reading of 75.6 in April to 88.1 in ...

JBWere appoints advice general manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2020
... general manager, advice after three and a half years with the company. Bird replaces Neville Azzopardi, who resigned in March along with the firm's chief investment officer James Wright. "Andrew joined JBWere in September 2016 and his career spans ...

Regal Atlantic fund up 12.5% in May, down 61.65% YTD

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... update said. The fund reported its single worst month in its 16-year-lonmg history in February (-32.01%) and then again in March (-58.59%). April and May have been positive returns at 14.81% and 12.50% but the fund is still at -61.65% for the year to ...

Former Fidelity wholesale head joins Sydney boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2020
... offered through HUB24 and Macquarie platforms and have about $400 million in assets. Mathie's arrival at the company in March comes as it looks to expand into customised, white-labelled SMAs to independent advisers across the country. "Clearly there ...

BetaShares to list hedged versions of global stocks ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... VanEck saw "quite sizeable switches" between its international shares ex Australia ETF, QUAL and its hedged version QHAL in March and April.

Global manager shuts fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... incorporates lower carbon-risk scoring but does not totally eliminate fossil-fuel exposure," the Morningstar report noted. In March, AXA IM split its asset management business in two, across core investments (fixed income, Framlington Equities, multi-asset ...

QIC appoints executive director

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... multi-asset investments. It has made three changes to its executive line up this year, including today's appointment. In March, it rebranded the global multi-asset division, and appointed Jim Christensen as state chief investment officer of QIC state ...

Chief economist update: The ECB's PEPP economy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUN 2020
... white. New forecasts show real GDP growth dropped from +1.2% in 2019 to -8.7% in 2020 (downgraded from +0.8 predicted in March 2020) before recovering to +5.2% in 2021 (from +1.3%) and +3.3% in 2022 (from 1.4%). The ECB also lowered its HICP inflation ...

Boutique to open Sydney office

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... boutique's distribution. It comes as Warakirri opens a new Sydney office, to be staffed by Curtis and Joe Marassa, who joined in March as the head of marketing and product. The new office is slated for a mid-July opening. The 27-year-old business ...

FASEA boycott sparks in-fighting

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2020
... superannuation, financial services and financial technology Jane Hume said. "This long standing measure, first announced in March 2018, is an important initiative on the journey to improving the quality of advice afforded to hard working Australians ...