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Whitehelm targets $2.4tn sector

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... investment vehicle is set up to pool pension fund investments in select smart city infrastructure across Europe, North America, Australia and other major urban areas globally. The fund will finance the scale up of integrated smart city solutions, which ...

Morningstar IM appoints regional chief investment officer

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
A former Qantas Super portfolio manager is taking on the role of Morningstar Investment Management's chief investment officer for Asia Pacific. Matt Watcher will start in the role in late January 2019, based out of Sydney. He takes over from current ...

Chief economist update: Americans who want work will find it

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2018
... luck or design, the booming US economy would have been US president Donald Trump's major legacy to the world - with America super charging growth all around the globe. But alas! Reminiscent of the song, Trump spoils it all by saying something stupid ...

AustralianSuper awards $500m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
... or AAA in Australian dollars. It was founded in 2014 by former JP Morgan bonds salesman Angus Coote and former Bank of America Merrill Lynch bond trader Charles Jamieson. As at 30 September, the strategy had returned 0.36% per annum above the index return ...

EM investors seek China alternative amid trade war

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... to China and other Asian markets' dominance of the index, she said, adding investors are increasingly turning to Latin America. Mulligan said the Pacific Alliance, which comprises Peru, Mexico, Columbia and Chile, provide a risk-adjusted performance ...

Macquarie, CFS top Aussie fund manager list

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... Advisors (US$2.8tn) completed the top three. More than half (58.1%) of the fund managers analysed were based in North America. European managers held 31.8% of assets managed, of which 7.4% was managed in the UK. Japan held 4.8% of the AUM, while Australia ...

Chief economist update: Shopaholics drive US growth

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
Spend, spend, spend appears to be this year's overriding mantra of the US consumer. The slow start in the first quarter of 2018 had been replaced by back-to-back quarters of exceptionally strong contributions to overall growth from American household ...

Young Aussies set lofty retirement goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
Australian millennials are aiming to retire comfortably at 50 with $5 million in their nest egg, a new survey shows. Trading platform Stake surveyed 506 Australians and those aged between 18 and 34 said investing in US stocks will help make their goals ...

Chief economist update: The winter of Australia's discontent

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
... mainly centred on sorghum, the on-going trade spat between the US and China would keep all other grain prices imported from America into China restrictive, making Australia a more attractive supplier of Beijing's agricultural demand. Hopefully the ...

Chatbots will move from consumer finance to corporate: BAML

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2018
Bank of America Merrill Lynch believes chatbot technologies could have applications in the wholesale and corporate side of banking as customers demand better ways to interact. Speaking at a SIBOS session in Sydney, Bank of America Merrill Lynch treasury ...