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Professional investment association rebrands

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2017
The Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA) Australia announced it will rebrand as CIMA Society of Australia. The name change will formally launch in early 2018 and is part of the association's initiative to emphasise the importance of ...

Arnhem strengthens investment team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2017
... in New York combined with his vast specialist research into the consumer discretionary and retail sectors across North America, Europe and Australasia, Bertrand brings unique global insights to our client portfolios and we are confident that he will ...

Currency trend is not our friend

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... Australian economy. The opposite of the bump up in economic growth and inflation the recent US dollar depreciation will have on America. The point is that there's no point extrapolating the direction of the currency. This is because a currency's appreciation ...

Latin America: the best-kept investment secret

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
With strong growth characteristics and increasing diversification of trade, Latin America's Pacific Alliance presents many opportunities for investors. The alliance - comprising Colombia, Chile, Peru and Mexico - was described as a "secret well kept" ...

Aussie super funds increase world ranking

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
Several Australian superannuation funds have been included in the ranks of the world's largest pension funds, recording a 9.1% increase in growth. Research provided by Willis Towers Watson shows that of 300 pension funds listed, 16 Australian funds ...

Who's afraid of North Korea? Not the South Koreans

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... all-out war between North Korea and the United States (and its allies) continue to flood cyberspace. The latest of which is America's ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley's remark that Kim Jong-un is "begging for war" as she urged the 15-member ...

Higher and higher

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... consumer spending. But this could be due to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) problem with seasonal adjustments. Bank of America Merrill Lynch noted the August employment has increased by an average of 159,000 since 2013 - 38,000 below the overall ...

Republican Party-themed ETF launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
... products. It will list under ticker code 'MAGA', which incidentally is an acronym for President Donald Trump's slogan 'make America great again' used during his 2016 presidential campaign. (The Republican Party is commonly referred to as the GOP, which ...

Industry super fund expands impact investment strategy

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2017
... $1.3 billion industry superannuation fund is expanding its impact investment strategy to companies operating in Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa and Southeast Asia with a new global partnership. Christian Super will make an investment in the TriLinc ...

Trump and Kim go ballistic

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
I'll see your "fire and fury" and raise you Guam. Yes Virginia, that's Trump and Kim going ballistic once again as they play high stakes ICBM poker. Who will be the first to blink and fold? From what we already know of each players' character and temperament ...