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Cbus hires infrastructure manager

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 FEB 2016
Cbus has hired a new infrastructure manager to its investment strategy team from KPMG. Diana Callebaut joined the $32 billion construction industry super fund's investment strategy team in the newly created role of manager, infrastructure on February ...

HNWIs foresee bullish 2016

ALEX BURKE  |  SATURDAY, 20 FEB 2016
... they have held in reserve to top up and diversify their investment portfolios," said deVere Group chief executive Nigel Green. "The survey overwhelmingly demonstrates that they are aware of the opportunities to buy high quality equities at the prices ...

Sunsuper brings Vanguard CIO out of retirement

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2016
... Sunsuper has further bolstered its investment team by appointing the former managing director of Treasury Group, Rodney Green, who was also chief investment officer at Perpetual Investments at Citicorp Global Asset Management. Commenting on the new appointments ...

Who spooked the greenback?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
Have financial markets stumbled on the one catalyst that could herald the beginning of the end... the end of the sour taste in their mouths for all things "risk" since the onset of 2016? They're getting back their mojos. Many, many times I have scribbled ...

Pensioners want DB decision reversed

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2016
The Combined Pensioners and Superannuants Association (CPSA) has launched a campaign for defined benefit pensioners who received a shock in their first 2016 Age Pension payment. On behalf of DB pensioners CPSA is proposing to write to federal Treasurer ...

Impact investments the next wave for RI

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2016
... environmentally friendly business model," AXA IM's report said. Given that 2015 was the fourth consecutive record year for green bonds issuances, AXA IM said this year will signal a need for selectivity. It said corporates are now the number one issuers ...

Doom(ed) rebound?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2016
... tough...... the tough promises to get going. For a change, a number of equity markets around the globe finished flashing green numbers last week. The All Ordinaries index, for one, closed 0.4% in the plus - pitiful you might say, but wonderful when you ...

ETFs benefit from market volatility: SSGA

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) says exchange-traded funds (ETFs) are one of the largest beneficiaries of global market volatility as investors look to dodge high levels of uncertainty. SSGA Australia head of SPDR ETFs Amanda Skelly said while dramatic ...

China's green shoots

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... better-than-expected Chinese trade data shows just how dependent Ozland is on Beijing. The All Ordinaries index closed 1.2% in the green - the first rise after seven straight days of declines this year - after China released trade figures suggesting ...

IFM Investors sell Pacific Hydro to SPIC

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
Global fund manager IFM Investors has sold Australian clean energy company Pacific Hydro to the Chinese-based State Power Investment Corporation (SPIC). IFM Investors was not surprised by the level of buyer interest in the business which runs 19 wind ...