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Centuria flags acquisition strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2018
... another Australian property investment manager. ESR, a logistics real estate investment firm which has offices in China, Japan and Singapore, has holdings in both the ASX-listed companies. Centuria proposed to acquire Propertylink in September 2017 ...

Macrovue bets on 5G technology

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
... executive Rod Bristow told Financial Standard. The "vue" or theme has eight 5G stocks in the US and one each in Sweden and Japan. Their top pick? The US$95 billion mobile technology company, Qualcomm. The fund returned 6.81% in less than three months ...

Insto mandate seeds Aviva fund launch

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2018
A global institution is placing $225 million with Aviva Investors to be the asset manager's cornerstone investor for its latest fund launch in Australia. Last month Aviva Investors chief executive Euan Munro revealed the firm, via its new mandate win ...

Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... influx of economic data and surveys are set for release this week. The central banks of Australia, Canada, the Eurozone and Japan are also scheduled to meet. Don't bother with any of them. Whatever the indicators indicate and the central banks decide ...

Senior RBA figure joins life insurer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2018
The chief information officer at the Reserve Bank of Australia will join MLC Life in a newly created executive role. Sarv Girn will join MLC Life's leadership team in the new position of chief innovation and transformation officer. Girn will lead the ...

Stellar growth for industry funds: APRA

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... trillion assets at the end of 2017. The US held the largest pool of assets (US$25.4tn), followed by the UK (US$3.11tn) and Japan (US$3.1tn). Australia sat in fourth place with US$1.92 trillion or $2.44 trillion - assets which surpass the nation's gross ...

Industry fund buys $7 million beef stake

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... operation focused on producing full-blood wagyu - the offspring of a wagyu sire and a wagyu dam whose pedigrees originate from Japan and are verified as 100% wagyu. The investment is expected to create 76 full-time jobs over the next five years and provides ...

CFSGAM cuts long-standing investment capabilities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2018
... following capabilities it has opted to retain: - Stewart Investors - Specialist team managing a range of Asia Pacific (ex. Japan), global emerging markets, worldwide and sustainability equity funds - First State Stewart Asia - Specialist team managing ...

Chief economist update: The yen's on the up and up

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2018
Instead of reversing, the yen continued to climb after Japan's Cabinet Office released the country's National Accounts showing that economic growth slowed to an annualised rate of 0.5% in the December quarter from 2.2% in the previous three-month period. ...

Avenir recruits Platinum analyst

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 15 FEB 2018
... Management where he was an investment analyst specialising in Japanese equities and the technology sector, managing a $25 million Japan fund portfolio. Before that, he worked at Japanese private equity firm Compass Partners, now known as Symphony Financial ...