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Honan launches reinsurance offering

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
Honan has announced it will enter the reinsurance market through the launch of Honan Re. Honan Re commenced operations in April 2021, based in Singapore and headed by Honan Asia managing director Eliza White. It will offer facultative reinsurance solutions ...

Chief economist update: Australia's confidence contagion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
Australia may not be "at the front of the queue for a safe and effective vaccine" (as Morrison declared back in November 2020) but it's certainly leading much of the world in containing the virus and strengthening economic recovery. This was the ...

Rest appoints head of investment strategy

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
Rest has hired BlackRock's head of client portfolio solutions in Australia as the fund's head of investment strategy and asset allocation, while also naming a head of capital markets. Andrew Thomas will report to Rest's chief investment officer Andrew ...

Mainstream obtains superior takeover offer

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
The investment administration firm has received a superior offer to Vistra's proposed $170 million acquisition and has notified the firm to either match or offer more favourable terms. SS&C Technologies Holdings has now entered a conditional scheme ...

ETP demand soars, unlisted unit trusts retract

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
The exchange-traded products market skyrocketed 149% to $95 billion in the three years to December 2020, new research finds. Rainmaker's latest research predicts that ETPs will eclipse the unlisted unit trust market in another three to five years. ...

Chief economist update: ScoMo cannot miss new vaccination target

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2021
Some move the goalposts when they can't hit the target, but Prime Minister Scott Morrison did one better and all but abandoned his government's vaccine roll-out target. Taking to Facebook, Morrison announced on April 10 that: "The government ...

Chief economist update: No fear

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
The coronavirus optimism that prevailed over the dying weeks of 2020 and into the first quarter of this year has been replaced by concerns over the resurgence in infections - in Europe, India, Japan, South Korea and lately, the US, among others - caused ...

YFYS net must be cast wider: Cbus

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
The $59 billion industry fund is calling on the government to include all superannuation products in the proposed performance benchmarks from the same date and to not commence the rest of the measures until all underperforming funds have been removed ...

Natixis IM appoints chief executive

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
Natixis Investment Managers has appointed a former Generali chief investment officer as its chief executive and leader of asset and wealth management, succeeding Jean Raby. Tim Ryan, who will assume the role on April 12, was at Generali for four years ...

Chief economist update: Europa rides the bull once again

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 9 APR 2021
Just like the myth of Europa, Eurozone equities are riding on the back of a bull. Eurozone equities soared to their highest levels in 13 years. The VStoxx index - the Eurozone's fear gauge dropped to 13-month lows. Lucky 13. The Euro Stoxx-50 index ...