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Cameron Hume hires fixed income expert

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
... exposure to the Australian and New Zealand institutional market. Most recently, co-founder Guy Cameron urged investment managers to carefully consider environmental, social and governance issues with respect to strategies. "A point worth making at the ...

EOFY: Super funds to hit double digit returns

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUN 2017
... delivered by bond markets in a rising interest rate environment. The 3% Australian dollar movement and difficulty investment managers have in accessing index returns will detract from these headline index outcomes, Rainmaker cautioned. Rainmaker head ...

Decumulation will drive investment focus shift: AXA IM

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUN 2017
... inflation protection over the long term in response to the advent of the superannuation decumulation phase, AXA Investment Managers believes. According to the results of its recent survey of 105 Australian institutional investors at a series of roundtable ...

Northern Trust names Sydney head

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUN 2017
... industry, performing a range of client-facing roles supporting large, sophisticated and complex clients including investment managers, sovereign wealth funds and insurance and superannuation funds. Northern Trust is a full-service provider to the Australian ...

"Shunned" investment strategy generating massive returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 25 MAY 2017
Active, value investment managers overlooking critical market anomalies are missing out on potential returns of up to 40%, according to PM Capital. One opportunity that is not well-known and is even "shunned" by some investment managers are long-term ...

CFA Institute investigates ESG investment gap

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAY 2017
The CFA Institute is partnering with a United Nations-backed organisation to determine why investment managers aren't standardising environmental, social and governance factors across all asset classes. CFA Institute, together with the Principles for ...

Super funds adopting insurers' investment strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... they rely on benchmark-outperforming strategies proven to be successful only during accumulation phase. AXA Investment Managers director for Australia and New Zealand, Craig Hurt, said while the Australian pension market has been a "beacon for the rest ...

Barclays refunds US$97m for overcharging clients

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAY 2017
... also failed to properly carry out an advisory service to monitor and perform due diligence on third-party investment managers for 2000 clients as represented. In another incident, it collected excess mutual fund fees from 63 brokerage clients by recommending ...

Government bond issuance to fall 20pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... by Australian investors. According to Rainmaker, only about half of the AOFM's debt is likely to be held by investment managers operating in Australia.

Netwealth welcomes new CFO

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAY 2017
... is also a previous chief financial officer and managing director of BlackRock Australia, then Merrill Lynch Investment Managers, and held positions with ANZ and Ernst and Young earlier in his career. In a statement, Netwealth said: "Grant has had a long ...