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Future Fund hires chief economist

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
The $199 billion sovereign wealth fund hired from Wellington Management for its inaugural chief economist. Toby Johnston will commence the role on January 27 and will report directly to the Future Fund's chief investment officer Sue Brake. He will lead ...

ASIC enforces licence conditions on ASX

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2021
... two primary concerns with the outage: why new orders received on November 16 after the outage were not directed to alternative venues such as Chi-X, and that some market participants did not have business continuity plans in place when ASX Centre Point ...

Bell AM announces US distribution plans

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2021
... bring our investment solutions to the Americas." Spouting Rock is located in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania and provides alternative, traditional and thematic investment solutions. "We're excited to welcome our Australian partners to the Spouting Rock family," ...

BlackRock Australia expands client distribution team

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2021
BlackRock Australia has today announced the appointment of Tamara Haban-Beer Stats to the role of whole portfolio solutions director within client business, as it expands its distribution team. Reporting to head of iShares wealth (iSW) Australasia Chantal ...

LICs, LITs move away from Aussie equities

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2021
... number and value of LICs and LITs offering investors exposure to global equities, Asian markets, infrastructure and alternative assets such as private equity and private debt and fixed income. The total LIC and LIT sector has grown from $39.6 billion ...

Willis Towers Watson expands investment team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2021
... director. She was previously responsible for the manager research and portfolio management component of Christian Super's alternative and real asset portfolio. Prior to joining Christian Super, Szeto worked at KPMG. Ksenia Zaychuk has been appointed ...

£450bn in inflation-linked UK DB liabilities unmatched

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2021
... say that with so many funds planning to hedge inflation they might find it difficult to do so without looking to an alternative asset class.

The search for income outside defensive assets

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2021
... into riskier asset classes to generate a positive real yield," he said. "The so-called TINA effect - "there is no alternative", will dominate the investment landscape for the next decade whilst yields on defensive assets and cash remain at low levels." ...

Licensee chair steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2021
... the group's management and performance. Miles founded Fortnum in 2010 to support financial advisers seeking an alternative to the large institutionally owned dealer groups that dominated the landscape at the time. His career in life insurance began ...

Australia-first private equity ETF to launch

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2021
... investors to participate in private equity investments for the first time through a single trade on the ASX. "As an alternative investment, private equity is important for investor's portfolios as it displays a low correlation with equities and bonds ...