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PIMCO partners with data and analytics platform

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
PIMCO has partnered with a financial technology company to enhance its quantitative research and analytic capabilities into its investment process. Part of the partnership sees PIMCO acquiring a minority stake in cloud-based integrated data and financial ...

Perpetual appoints new CEO

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAY 2018
Financial services giant Perpetual has appointed a new chief executive officer. Rob Adams will join Perpetual from Janus Henderson in September. In an announcement to the ASX this morning Perpetual chairman Tony D'Aloisio highlighted Adams three decades ...

Contango LIC slashes cash allocation after acquisition

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
Contango Asset Management is reducing the cash allocation in its listed income fund, aiming to have 95% of its net tangible assets fully invested. For the past 12 to 18 months, the $100 million Contango Income Generator listed investment company (CIE) ...

MGP to expand super solutions, director resigns

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
Managed Accounts Holdings is expanding its superannuation capabilities and is on track to acquire an existing Registrable Superannuation Entity. A non-executive director will also step down from the MGP board. The managed accounts and investment administrator ...

Chief economist update: When good oil goes bad

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2018
Let me take you down (no, I'm not going to Strawberry Fields) back to early 2016, when the US and the European Union decided to lift financial and oil sanctions on Iran. Almost immediately Tehran announced it's bringing back production to 3 million ...

Kapstream appoints analyst, promotes internally

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
Kapstream Capital welcomed a new credit analyst this week and announced internal promotions for three of its investment team members. Joining the Janus Henderson-owned fixed income manager as a credit analyst is Pauline Chrystal. She has nine years' ...

Chief economist update: We're headed for surplus (if assumptions hold)

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
No one can escape it, even if we try. The media - radio, TV, print, social - is full of it. Reports, assessments, and implications of Australia's Federal Budget 2018-19. There's the usual flood of "Budget winners and losers" and the "what's in it for ...

Volatility divides investors: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2018
As volatility and interest rate movements remain top concerns for investors, many are divided on the impact these risks will have on portfolio returns, the latest Natixis Investment Managers survey shows. About eight-in-ten (78%) of the 200 fund researchers ...

Budget big picture: Surplus on radar

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
Treasurer Scott Morrison, in his third Commonwealth Budget reports that government receipts rising 8.6% during 2017-18, compared to expenditure rising 4.7%, leaves Australia with an annual deficit of $18.2 billion and on its way to a modest $2.2 billion ...

Baby boomers receive $259 million, pension work bonus lifted

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAY 2018
Working baby boomers who also receive age pensions will now be able to earn up to $300 a fortnight before the Government starts to trim their pension payments. The 2018 Budget initiative formed part of Treasurer Scott Morrison's $258.6 million baby ...