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Super fund tops up Tribeca mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... over as the sole portfolio manager following Fenton's departure, hired two analysts and the fund has since restored to above-benchmark returns. The fund delivered 3.37% in the year ending August, 2020 better than its benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation ...

Industry fund chief to step down

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... August 2016. BUSSQ chair Paula Masters said: "Linda leaves BUSSQ in strong shape, and well-placed to build on its record of above average returns for members over the medium to longer term." Under her watch, the industry super fund has returned members ...

Aussie small caps outperform

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... equities managers, the report read, noting that fixed interest has an upper limit on returns. "Generally speaking, returns above the benchmark can only be achieved by playing around with interest rate risk and credit risk. "Credit, for example, is an ...

Tom Waterhouse now a fund manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
... media and video gaming) that overlap with gambling. It is priced at 2% p.a. in management fees and 20% in performance fees above a high watermark (set for individual investors) and a buy/sell spread of +/- 1% of the net asset value, according a memorandum ...

S&P downgrades AMP

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2020
... sell off some business units. "AMP continues to have a strong balance sheet and capital position, with eligible capital above minimum regulatory requirements of $2.2 billion at 30 June 2020," AMP said in a statement to the ASX. S&P previously downgraded ...

Morningstar upgrades four, downgrades 10

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
... sustainable fixed-income investing", Morningstar said. "That said, the overall appeal of this strategy isn't definitively above par, especially with regard to managing interest-rate duration, which dampens our enthusiasm." In comparison, the BetaShares ...

Future Fund posts negative year, cashes up

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... FY20 performance is significantly below the benchmark return of 6.1% but longer term, the sovereign wealth fund remains above it with 9.2% p.a. return. The June quarter brought -0.7% of the total -0.9% return for the year, perhaps as the Future Fund ...

Chief economist update: Fed heads for the mountain

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2020
... periods when inflation has been running below 2%, appropriate monetary policy will likely aim to achieve inflation moderately above 2% for some time". Powell's also killed off NAIRU - the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (or "u-star") ...

Is your CEO smart or just lucky?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2020
... are rewarded power for luck, but are not punished equally for bad luck," he writes. The academic goes on to argue that the above may suggest that departing chief executives may try to time their entrenchments to a period where the markets as well as ...

Chief economist update: Communists' party

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2020
... the economy with the Caixin China PMI - composite, manufacturing and services - remaining at levels indicating expansion (above 50) over the past three months to July. Similarly, activity measures - retail sales; fixed asset investment; industrial production ...