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Frontier Advisors builds investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
... advice provided to our clients," Frontier Advisors said in a statement. "We have recently split our former debt and alternatives research team into two groups, namely debt and currency, headed by principal consultant Andrew Kemp, and derivatives and ...

State Super CIO exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 21 DEC 2018
... leading the internal investment and actuarial team. He joined the fund in August 2015 as head of unlisted assets and alternatives before being shortly promoted to investment chief. Before State Super, Hedley spent seven years at the infrastructure investment ...

Industry fund awards $180m fixed income mandate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
... Payden's representative in the Australian market - Energy Super's investment in PGIOF will sit in the fund's defensive alternatives portfolio, and will provide a core income stream from global fixed income. "The cornerstone of Payden's investment philosophy ...

Advice associations combine for code monitoring

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 18 DEC 2018
... planners and advisers can choose to subscribe to a professional associations based scheme, rather than commercial alternatives which may be less suitable or more expensive. This scheme is being developed by the profession for the benefit of the public." ...

Boutique behemoth in the making

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2018
... invest in infrastructure and resources, further attract the very best investment managers in the liquid and illiquid alternatives space and deliver tailor made investment solutions to our investors." Over the last 10 years, the search for uncorrelated ...

Aussie investors calm about next 12 months

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2018
... highest allocation to cash (27%), followed by equities (25%), real estate property/funds (18%), fixed income (16%), alternatives (9%) and gold/precious metals (5%). About half of the 1000 Aussie respondents had income of $80,000 a year or less. The largest ...

WAM names prospective Blue Sky LIC team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... the name of Andrew Siew from its investment management team to oversee the managements of the underlying Blue Sky Alternatives Access Fund portfolio. Siew has 22 years of experience in investment markets, specialising in private equity and alternatives ...

Superannuation funds ramp up co-investment opportunities

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2018
... real estate compared to global counterparts, new research shows. Preqin's Australian Superannuation Funds in Alternatives report finds partnerships in the form of joint ventures, consortiums and co-investments have been rising across the industry ...

BlackRock appoints regional head

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2018
... firm's long-term growth strategy for China, and has been a key voice in our strategy for retirement, wealth, alternatives and sustainable investing. Geraldine has the business expertise we need to drive our business forward," Fink said. Stork joined ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... more stringent regulatory requirements. Consequently, inventories of cash bonds reduced and investors searched for alternatives. That's when ETFs opened an avenue to the fixed income market, Stack says. It was during the "deep dark days" of the GFC ...