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Multi-factor investing applies to credit too: Robeco

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
Building on the current interest in multi-factor investing in equity markets, Robeco is now designing bespoke multi-factor credit solutions for institutional clients in Australia. In this low growth, low interest rate world, factor investing is being ...

Foreign direct investors turning to Australia for growth

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... and Australia's expected 0.5% increase in economic growth in 2016. Having said this, the increase in foreign investor interest follows a year in which foreign direct investment inflows fell from $51.9 billion to $34.7 billion due to the fall in mergers ...

Investors must look past market noise: AXA IM

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... client response to RI demonstrated by the increasing popularity of innovative products such as green bonds and the growing interest in impact investing. "There will be continued evidence of the gradual progression of responsible investment from a specialist ...

Impact investing on insto agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... investment Amanda Young said institutional investors will grow their impact investments of the back of rising millennial interest. "The millennials have grown in an era of unprecedented change. They've grown up in the shadow of 9/11, they've grown up ...

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... core inflation forecasts from 2%-3% to 1%-2% this year before rising to 1.5%-2.5% in 2017. Not on their watch! Lower interest rates means less yield on cash equals more money going to the stock market seeking higher yields. But more importantly, lower ...

Further monetary stimulus risks woeful asset returns

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... own modelling, Standard Life Investments believes global real GDP growth of 1% combined with 1% inflation and sub-1% interest rates would translate to an annualised equity market return of just 1.5% over the next decade. Though the bleak, low growth ...

QIC makes first agribusiness acquisition

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
QIC has entered a binding agreement to acquire an 80% controlling interest in the North Australian Pastoral Company (NAP). The agreement marks QIC's first major agriculture acquisition since announcing its agribusiness strategy and intention to grow ...

IFM Investors sells stake in Indiana Toll Road

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2016
... ITRCC for US$5.7 billion in March last year, and the recent sale saw US pension fund CalPERS acquire 10%. An undisclosed interest has also been sold to US insurer Allstate, while the IFM Investors Global Infrastructure Fund continues to hold more than ...

Agriculture ripe for institutional picking

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2016
... hedge against inflation, provides diversification with a low correlation to the equity market, the earnings in a negative interest rate environment are attractive, and it's got low to moderate variability," Beauchamp says. In 2015, BDO published a report ...

Centuria appoints new CFO

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2016
... "an important business and technology hub," a position Centuria came to "in 2013 when a Centuria fund acquired a 50% interest in the $220 million Channel Seven building."