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Independent fund manager Barwon Investment Partners, which manages more than $2 billion on behalf of their clients, is to launch the Barwon Disability Accommodation Fund. The property and impact investment fund is open-ended in structure and will target wholesale investors seeking returns from properties in the Australian specialist disability accommodation (SDA) sector, under the National…

In what was the first face-to-face investment industry gathering for more than a year, Senator Jane Hume, the minister for superannuation, appears to be holding the Government line on proposed ‘Your Future, Your Super’ changes. This is despite almost universal and bi-partisan criticism from industry experts about the efficacy of the process to be used…

In a year of bushfires, cheap money, a Presidential election and a global pandemic, investors were exposed to a rollercoaster ride of mixed emotions, panic selling and dizzying bouts of volatility. Reflecting back on calendar year 2020, it is interesting to see which group of companies outperformed. Large or small caps? Tech or healthcare? It…

Bitcoin is back. The first digital currency, introduced back in 2009, has once again gone on a mammoth bull run and reignited debate over its value. The price of Bitcoin hit all-time highs in 2020 reaching A$50,177, ending the year by doubling in less than a month. Its price is up by more than 330%…

Regardless of which name you know it by, private credit, may just be the most popular asset class of 2020. The concept of private debt is straightforward, it involves lending money to private rather than public or ASX-listed companies. Almost every reader of this newsletter will have made a fixed income or bond investment at…

This year’s Sohn Hearts & Minds Conference, an annual one-day event that brings the finance and investment community together, saw a select group of fund managers fund manager share their best stock idea for the year ahead. This year’s recurring theme without doubt was COVID-19. But grief and tragedy aside, COVID-19 has forced us to…

Vanguard Group Inc. has drawn many headlines in recent weeks following its decision to “give back” billions of dollars in investment mandates to Australian industry funds. According to Bloomberg reports, the group has been implementing similar strategies in China and throughout the world. The return of (or what some see as a refusal to continue…

Four years ago, old high-school buddies Nicholas Quinn and Jesse Moors were taking in the sunshine at a café on Melbourne’s Southbank, when they decided to take their mutual interest in stock market investment to the next level. Quinn, a former PwC global tax specialist, and Moors, formerly a business development manager at CPA Australia,…

Hamish Douglass, the CIO of Magellan Financial Group, who oversees the largest Australian-owned global funds manager and is the current darling of the wholesale and retail investor sectors, is relatively sanguine about the possible market impact of the US election, but a bit more worried about COVID-19. Douglass, also Magellan’s co-founder, with Chris Mackay, chairman…