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Chief economist update: Weaker yen strengthening Japan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 NOV 2019
... done nothing and it kept policy unchanged at it's October meeting only hours after the US Federal Reserve cut the Fed Funds Rate for a third time in October, following its July and September rate cuts. The same could be said of the Euro. The European ...

Global manager hires IFM associate director

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... as David Orford and his family office.. Orbis Investment Management currently manages in excess for $12 billion in client funds, according to Rainmaker data, in global equities with the majority sourced from institutional clients.

Superestate eyes property mandates

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... families," he said. Brits confirmed he intends to win mandates to manage direct residential property mandates for super funds. "In terms of working with the big partners, starting out it will be small with any of them, of course it will," he said. "If ...

Active fixed income funds review fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... not as cutthroat. JANA senior consultant Robert Moore says the asset consultant has been able to negotiate fees for super funds but the fee cuts are more along the range of one to two basis points. "Generally speaking, super funds do have a focus on ...

Super funds set to dominate ASX: Deloitte

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... Australian shares grow to around 60% of the market capitalisation of the ASX, as long as asset allocations remain steady as funds under management balloon. "Currently the total investment by superannuation funds in Australian shares comprises around ...

Industry still shy of flat dollar fees: Frontier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
A report from Frontier Advisors suggests superannuation funds and investment managers are still not comfortable with flat dollar fees. The report, titled 'Managing costs and aligning interests: A decade on', written by director Fiona Trafford-Walker ...

ASIC probes Regal Funds Management

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
Regal Funds Management has confirmed an ASIC investigation into the asset manager is underway. In a statement, a Regal spokesperson said the firm this week learnt the corporate regulator had begun to conduct a preliminary investigation into the asset ...

Pendal Group yanks equities mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
... Pendal Group has pulled nearly $460 million from an international equities manager, as it hands over the management of three funds to its in-house team. AQR Capital Management managed three funds for Pendal. These are the Pendal core hedged global share ...

Global manager to build local retail team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
... distribution...and we have hired a new person to start in December," Acadian Australia chief executive Andrew Hair said. Acadian's funds will continue to be hosted on CFS. But it will seek to build relationships with adviser groups, for managed accounts ...

ACSI, AFIC respond to Westpac scandal

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 26 NOV 2019
... too was recently dropped by AFIC. Freeman cited increased competition and pressure on fees from money flowing into indexed funds as some of the contributing factors to Perpetual no longer being held by AFIC. "It seemed to us it would be difficult for ...