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AustralianSuper awards $500m mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
A Melbourne boutique has won a $500 million mandate from AustralianSuper, the super fund confirmed. Jamieson Coote Bonds was appointed to manage a fixed income mandate for the super fund at the end of June, Rainmaker research shows. JCB's mandate ...

Chief economist update: Eurozone growth slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2018
Uh-oh! Borrowing a quote from Robert Burns: "The best-laid plans of mice and men often go awry." It appears to be heading that way looking at the third quarter economic scorecard in the Eurozone. Advance estimates show that the single currency region's ...

Chief investment officer retires

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
The chief investment officer at a prominent Australian asset manager is retiring after working at the firm for 12 years. Wilson Asset Management chief investment officer Chris Stott will soon retire to spend more time with his young family. Chairman ...

Chief economist update: Super Mario keeps his cool

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2018
The European Central Bank's (ECB) October 25 Governing Council meeting concluded with a decision that markets widely expected. The ECB left interest rates unchanged - the benchmark refinancing rate at 0%, the marginal lending facility rate at 0.25% ...

Chief economist update: Still the lucky country?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2018
Financial markets remain in a state of flux as investors' chills appear to be multiplying on growing concerns over: Wall Street's heightened volatility, Fed rate rises and the risk of a policy mistake, Trump's protectionist policy, China's ...

Financial services employment to boom

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 OCT 2018
The employment outlook for the financial services sector is at a six-year high, despite the Royal Commission. Latest figures from Manpower show the net employment outlook for the finance, insurance and real estate sectors is up 21% for the fourth quarter ...

Gender super gap closing but still wide

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2018
In the last decade, women have narrowed the superannuation gender gap by about 13 percentage points, but they still have only 72% of what men have in their nest eggs. According to Roy Morgan, women had $68,000 on an average in their superannuation balance ...

FPA finds Sam Henderson guilty

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2018
High profile financial adviser Sam Henderson has been found guilty of nine of 10 alleged breaches of the Financial Planning Association of Australia's code of professional practice. The determination was delivered this afternoon by the FPA's ...

Chief economist update: Is China starting to slow down?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
Be afraid, be very afraid. This appears to be the foreboding flashing on investors' dashboards following yesterday's 3.7% drubbing in the Shanghai composite index and the 0.5% depreciation in the Chinese yuan CNY6.9136 versus the greenback. ...

The joys of an independent board

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
What value does an independent board of directors add to an investment company? That's a question that directors of top UK investment companies met to answer yesterday. At a conference organised by 86-year old Association of Investment Companies (AIC) ...