Amundi Asset Management, Europe’s largest fund manager, has reassessed global developments over the past three months and produced a new outlook paper for markets in 2021. The latest view is more bullish than the last. The €1.66 trillion (A$2.01 trillion) manager
Raewyn Williams has resigned from Parametric Portfolio Australia and will leave the firm at the end of February, after seven years there. She is Australia’s best-known exponent of after-tax investing, who has been a prolific producer of global and Australian
FNZ has won a last-ditch bid to relitigate the looming forced sale of Australian software firm GBST after the UK competition authority flagged possible mistakes in figures underpinning its earlier decision. In a notice published late last year, the Competition
Northern Trust has won another passive global equities gig with a bank-owned KiwiSaver fund following a mandate reshuffle at the Westpac scheme in New Zealand. Australia’s Ninety One was also a winner in the reshuffle. Along with several other changes,
Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation has partnered with Lifeline to bolster mental health support services and to assist programs aimed at destigmatising mental illness. The super fund joined SuperFriend as that organisation’s 24th super industry partner in August last year. The three-year
State Street Global Advisors will sharpen its ESG efforts on climate change and corporate racial diversity in 2021, adopting a more activist approach with investee companies. In a letter to major global corporations this month (January 11), Cyrus Taraporevala, SSGA
Former BlackRock executive Holly Framsted is to become head of ETFs for Capital Group in the US, which plans to launch a slate of both equity and fixed income actively managed listed funds in 2022. Capital, which has about US$2
When a 25-year-old English fund manager with £21 billion (A$37 billion) under management discloses it had made a sizable investment in bitcoin, it is bound to give the institutionalisation of the crypto currency a big kickalong. This is especially so
While distressed debt funds have mushroomed to record levels in major markets, helped by the belief that the pandemic is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, Asia has languished. Already a small market for the broader private debt alternatives asset class, Asian distressed
Australian fund managers see opening new distribution channels and embracing digitalisation as their major challenges in a post-COVID environment, according to a survey by financial data communications group Calastone and UK publisher Funds Global Asia. The Australian survey, for which
Amundi Asset Management, Europe’s largest fund manager, has reassessed global developments over the past three months and produced
Raewyn Williams has resigned from Parametric Portfolio Australia and will leave the firm at the end of February,
FNZ has won a last-ditch bid to relitigate the looming forced sale of Australian software firm GBST after
Northern Trust has won another passive global equities gig with a bank-owned KiwiSaver fund following a mandate reshuffle
Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation has partnered with Lifeline to bolster mental health support services and to assist programs aimed
State Street Global Advisors will sharpen its ESG efforts on climate change and corporate racial diversity in 2021,
Former BlackRock executive Holly Framsted is to become head of ETFs for Capital Group in the US, which
When a 25-year-old English fund manager with £21 billion (A$37 billion) under management discloses it had made a
While distressed debt funds have mushroomed to record levels in major markets, helped by the belief that the
Australian fund managers see opening new distribution channels and embracing digitalisation as their major challenges in a post-COVID
