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WA Super trio launches boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2020
WA Super's former chief investment officer Chris West and two others have launched a new investment consultancy, following the completion of its merger with Aware Super. Context Capital will provide investment advice to advice businesses, wealth ...

Advice firm launches dealer group

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2020
A Sydney-based financial advice firm is entering the licensee space, launching a technology-driven dealer group offering. Insight Investment Partners has launched IIP Dealer Group, led by managing director Anthony Lyon and director Christopher Fellas. ...

Chief economist update: China keeps on going and going

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 4 DEC 2020
If not for its ongoing diplomatic and trade tensions with Beijing, Australia would be beaming and congratulating China for the strengthening momentum in its economy and this, after having survived the pandemic without plunging into a recession. After ...

Coolabah to manage Contango fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
Christopher Joye's Coolabah Capital has been appointed to manage a floating-rate bond fund from Contango Asset Management. The Switzer Higher Yield Fund (or SHYF) will aim for 1.5% to 3% over RBA cash rate on a rolling 12-month basis. The fund will ...

International consortium sets sights on Optus

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2020
A consortium of investors including a $116 billion Canadian pension fund has appointed financial advisers to participate in the upcoming sale of Optus towers. Symphony Consortium, consisting of the Ontario Municipal Employees Retirement System (OMERS) ...

Challenger seeks new life chief executive

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... searching for a new chief executive for its life business, as the incumbent moves to a new role in its group leadership team. Chris Plater has been the life business' chief executive for four years, when he took over the role from Richard Howes in ...

Magellan adds to board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... create a $15 billion fund that will combine the unlisted, ETF and LIT versions of the Magellan Global Fund. Portfolio manager Chris Wheldon said it was the restructure that Magellan used as an opportunity to adopt the unhedged approach to the High Conviction ...

Magellan axes currency hedging in trust

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
... reduce the impact of identified event risks. The trust said its portfolio managers, Magellan co-founder Hamish Douglass and Chris Wheldon, implemented the active hedge in 2015 reduce the impact of foreign currency exposure when the Australian dollar ...

Chief economist update: Dow 30 thousand

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
"Be fearful when others are greedy and greedy when others are fearful." - Warren Buffett History is again bearing witness to the "Sage of Omaha's" widely-known investing principle for who would have dreamed that the US equity market would rally ...

ASFA adds board members

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2020
... Leeanne Turner (MTAA chief executive) representing industry super, and Michael Clancy (Qantas Super chief executive) and Chris Davies (TelstraSuper chief executive) for corporate super. In welcoming Fraser and Lombardo, ASFA chair Michael Easson said ...