CARE Super has appointed a new Australian equities manager to replace its terminated $200 million mandate with 452 Capital, while revealing a ‘quality’ bias which will extend to its imminent next hire in the asset class.
Mercer sounds new warning on global fixed interest
Mercer has sounded a further warning about allocations to global bonds and global credit in its latest dynamic asset allocation (DAA) report, putting both in the “overvalued” category.
Funds obstructing rollovers, says tech provider
Some super funds are requiring draconian amounts of paperwork to discourage members from rolling over to another fund, says technology provider Cuscal. Aussie investors ‘should get out more’: Urwin
Roger Urwin
Responsible investment buoys funds
Responsible investment is boosting funds’ bottom lines with core responsible investment (RI) portfolios rising 13 per cent in the last financial year.
New boss for CPG Research & Advisory
A former senior multimanager executive from IOOF has become the managing director of CPG Research & Advisory, replacing Simon Ibbetson at the asset consultancy.
AMP creates infrastructure mandate servicing role
AMP Capital Investors has attracted a well-known RREEF Infrastructure executive to a role servicing the separate accounts managed by Paul Foster’s Australasian infrastructure team.
IOOF pulls 16 mandates, signs two in big portfolio play
Steve Merlicek
Future Fund will need new private markets chief
The $69 billion Future Fund will shortly have a new boss for its $8 billion-plus private markets portfolios, following the incumbent’s decision to move on.
New boss for CPG Research & Advisory
A former senior multimanager executive from IOOF has become the managing director of CPG Research & Advisory, replacing Simon Ibbetson at the asset consultancy.
PIMCO confronts bond bubble rhetoric
PIMCO has hosed down talk of a bubble in bonds, with the ‘big four’ central banks to remain “firmly in easing mode” for the foreseeable future, and the 2.5 per cent yield on 10-year US Treasuries “lower than the nominal GDP growth we would expect over that timeframe”, according to visiting global product head David Fisher.
Maple-Brown's new way to reach retail
Maple-Brown Abbott has for the first time looked beyond Advance Asset Management for distribution of one of its funds to financial advisers.
