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Funds management in ASIC spotlight

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2020
... data to support healthy competition," Chester said. She added that with the inevitable uptick in insolvencies and extreme macro forces being experienced, investment managers will face greater liquidity challenges. "As underlying assets come under stress ...

COVID-19 to remain dominant in 2021

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... already feeling the ripples of the more interventionist actions from policymakers." Taking a different stance than in its macro projections, JPMAM said its forecasts for asset returns include more material changes. "Once again, we are downgrading many ...

Pinnacle boutique to shut fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Systematic global macro manager Two Trees Investment Management is shutting its Australian unit trust, as assets dwindle and the strategy underperforms. The Two Trees Investment Management's Global Macro Fund will be terminated given its small size. ...

Clime chief executive steps down

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2020
The chief executive of Clime Investment Management has resigned with immediate effect. Rod Bristow had been in the position since September 2018, having joined from Macrovue. Bristow oversaw significant growth for the company, including the $5 million ...

RBA measures not solely due to COVID: Treasury

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
The unconventional monetary policy measures launched by the Reserve Bank of Australia are not solely a result of the COVID-19 shock, Treasury Secretary Steven Kennedy said. Speaking to Australian Business Economists for a post-budget briefing, Kennedy ...

UBS, Insight IM win Future Fund mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... new managers to the alternatives multi-strategy (relative value). Wellington Investment Management added an alternatives macro-directional mandate to its previous two mandates with the fund. QIC Global Infrastructure won an unlisted infrastructure and ...

American manager eyes local market

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
An American manager has partnered with local distributor Brookvine to pitch its flagship systematic global macro strategy. Welton Investment Partners is 15-year-old quantitative investor that manages money for institutional, endowment and private investors ...

Fresh fundies outperform

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2020
... for those investors." Spatium Capital uses a "relative valuation model," with five filter drivers, Moors said. "We use a macro filter, an industry filter, a small companies filter, the decay rate and then the hurdle filter as well," he said. "That all ...

Death of value investing a myth: Realindex

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2020
The rise of a small handful of growth stocks is creating a distortion and obscuring the true performance of value investing in global markets, according to Realindex. In a research paper titled Value is dead, long live value, Realindex quantitative ...

AAA rating holds on by a thread

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2020
Australia's AAA rating will remain, but is hanging on by a thread following the government's budget announcement. Fitch ratings revised the country's rating from stable to negative on the fiscal impact of the COVID-19 shock. "The negative outlook reflects ...