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Principal AM hires from BlackRock

ELIZA BAVIN | MONDAY, 19 AUG 2024

... client service teams. He will focus on public and private investment capabilities, including Principal's Emerging Market Debt (EMD) solution. Dunn joins from BlackRock, where he was director of pension (institutional) sales for the Client Business in ...

Principal Finisterre launches new debt fund

ELIZA BAVIN | MONDAY, 27 MAY 2024

... Australian institutional and wholesale investors. The fund aims to capitalise on the increased interest in emerging market debt (EMD). Principal said the strategy's total return approach, marked by active investment management and monitoring, devoid ...

Vision Super seeds emerging market debt fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON | MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021

... and limiting drawdowns during volatile market conditions. The fund aims to offer institutional investors more than 90% of EMD market upside for 50% of its volatility and less than 50% of its downside and allocates risk to five complementary risk/return ...

Emerging market debt rebounds

ELIZA BAVIN | WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020

... broad-based rally is not over and the EM market is entering a period of differentiation. "In this environment, how one invests in EMD is going to be critically important, in our view. "We are focused on three areas; the critical role of country-level ...

Fundamentals return to the forefront in EM

ELIZA BAVIN | TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020

... as well as the ability to access markets will be key for managers to achieve investment success at this critical time for EMD." They said they have a more neutral view on currencies and their view on interest rates has been raised to overweight. "We ...

Chief economist update: A busy 2020 for Abe, BOJ

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 14 JAN 2020

The world economy would advance by 2.5% this year, a tad stronger than the "post-crisis low" of 2.4% estimated for 2019. This is the World Bank's prediction contained in its January 2020 'Global Economic Prospects' report, noting that: "While ...

Financial services giants launch ESG indices

KARREN VERGARA | MONDAY, 30 APR 2018

... be instrumental in redefining the investment universe and setting an industry standard to help make ESG investment within EMD more broadly accessible to all investor types. This is a big step forward for emerging market investment," he said.

Instos chasing EM debt for value

ALEX BURKE | WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2018

... said ESG considerations have "the potential to generate enhanced alpha for investors and should be a structural component of EMD investing." "ESG analysis has become an important part of credit analysis for developed market corporates, principally as ...

Chief economist update: The risks just got real

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018

An influx of economic data and surveys are set for release this week. The central banks of Australia, Canada, the Eurozone and Japan are also scheduled to meet. Don't bother with any of them. Whatever the indicators indicate and the central banks decide ...

EM currencies potential alpha source

JAMIE WILLIAMSON | FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2016

... public debt, and a track record of inflation targeting and fiscal discipline than in the late 1990s and 2000s, the majority of EMD managers are underweight this segment, providing substantial scope for alpha. Osses believes the bias toward EMD hard currency ...

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Australian Unity to shed 195 roles

MATTHEW WAI

Australian Unity is reducing its workforce by 195 positions due to underperformance stemming from delays in government support for its Home Health platform and the integration of several businesses.

Count shutters limited-advice business, slips in size ranking

MATTHEW WAI

Count Financial has reportedly wound up its restricted SMSF/limited-advice service, losing some 26 advisers on the Financial Adviser Register, latest data shows.

First Super recruits head of investments from Prime Super

MATTHEW WAI

First Super has appointed a new head of investments, replacing Chris Artis, who was in the position for the past three months on an interim basis.

BMO eyes Euroz Hartleys' capital markets business

KARREN VERGARA

Euroz Hartleys confirmed it is in discussions with Canada's BMO Financial Group for a potential sale of its capital markets business for $145 million.

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