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Aussie bonds attractive to global investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016
The Commonwealth Bank is seeing an increase in global pension funds and central banks attending its events and seeking expertise to better understand the Australian bond market. Addressing the bank's ninth Annual Global Markets Conference in Sydney ...

Aussie government bond flaunts confidence

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2016
Oversubscription to the Australian government's 30-year bond demonstrates both foreign and domestic confidence in the country. Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison said the bond raised $7.6 billion from investors and the historic issue attracted bids totalling ...

Nikko AM wins Aussie equity mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
An industry superannuation fund is partnering with Nikko Asset Management for an Australian equities mandate. The $4 billion TWUSUPER recently appointed Nikko to run a mandate through its long running Australian Equities Comparative Value Analysis strategy. ...

Canadian instos approved for Aussie ag investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2016
Two Canadian institutional investors now have regulatory approval to acquire 49% of the Australian arm of diversified natural resource company Glencore Agriculture. The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) said it will not oppose the ...

Watershed SMA makes the right calls

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  SUNDAY, 11 SEP 2016
... which held up relatively well given the sharp decline in the Australian dollar vs the USD. The US market fell, but the Aussie dollar also fell sharply to just below 70c in late January. The group also introduced a leveraged but currency hedged US market ...

ASIC determines Aussie equity market "mostly clean"

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
ASIC has found in a new report that 95% of listed equity trades on the market "exhibited no (or negligible) anomalous trading patterns" ahead of material announcements from November 2014 to October 2015. The regulator's Review of Australian equity market ...

Advisers need to leverage enormous ETF winds

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... allocations, as well as a separate study where a majority of instos were holding ETFs for at least 12 months. "It may not be Aussie or global equities but it maybe a fixed income ETF to make sure they've got broad asset class exposure. Costs have gone ...

Aussie pension pros most confident about valuations

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
Only one fifth of global pension fund professionals are more than 90% confident their respective funds' asset and liability valuations are accurate, according to the latest research from State Street. Interviewing more than 400 pension fund professionals ...

Aussie investors list operational alpha among top priorities

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
The global head of Bloomberg Asset and Investment Manager believes Australian investors are seeking both new and non-traditional asset classes as a priority to generate income and alpha increases. Recently appointed Bloomberg AIM global head Steve Ioannou ...

Milford AM appoints Aussie equities head from CFSGAM

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUN 2016
New Zealand-based Milford Asset Management has appointed a new head of Australian equities to its Sydney office. Wayne Gentle will commence his role on July 11, and joins Milford AM from Colonial First State Global Asset Management, where he was deputy ...