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Hedge fund growth under pressure: EY

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 NOV 2016
... Survey also found that hedge fund growth has slowed for a variety of reasons including the abundance of low fee passive investment options, lackluster hedge fund performance and cost concerns. Growth is now the key focus area for the industry, with more ...

Misaligned expectations advisers' biggest threat

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 17 NOV 2016
The misalignment of investor and adviser expectations is one of the greatest threats facing financial advisers around the world, according to research from Natixis Global Asset Management. Comparison between the Natixis Individual Investor Survey and ...

Investors must look past Australia for opportunities: BAM

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 26 AUG 2016
Australian investors must be more willing to embrace international equities if they want to capitalise on greater opportunities, according to Bell Asset Management (BAM) chief investment officer and portfolio manager, Ned Bell. Speaking at a media briefing ...

UK IFAs increasingly outsourcing to DFMs

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
United Kingdom independent financial advisers (IFAs) are increasingly outsourcing investment assets to discretionary fund managers (DFMs) as asset managers start to feel the fee pressure pinch, according to Cerulli Associates' 'Asset Management in the ...

Vanguard appoints ex-Macquarie division director

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
Vanguard has appointed a new senior key account manager. Andrew Mathie joins Vanguard from Macquarie, where he was division director - banking and financial services. Prior to that, he was an associate director and national key account manager at the ...

Time to review MySuper effectiveness

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2016
... in Sydney next month, alongside concerns over MySuper investment options, "which have been driven towards a passive investment style to reduce costs and be more appealing in comparison to the cost of other funds." WSSA said it will also analyse MySuper ...

AVCAL calls to relax foreign investment rules

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 20 JUN 2016
... wider national policy that relaxes existing foreign investment rules, something which AVCAL said is restricting passive investment into non-sensitive parts of the Australian economy. AVCAL is also calling for the federal government to remove regulatory ...

PROFILE: Vanguard Australia managing director Colin Kelton

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
By his own admission, Colin Kelton barely understood what Vanguard did when he applied for a job at the company. But 25 years on he's now principal and managing director of the Australian operations of the $4.4 trillion asset manager, and he can't imagine ...

iShares Core launches in Australia

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2016
BlackRock has launched its iShares Core exchange traded fund (ETF) range in Australia to provide investors with low cost, high quality and diversified exposures. iShares Core comprises thee equity ETFs and two fixed income ETFs that be combined to construct ...

Van Eck launching infrastructure and dividend ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2016
... S&P Dow Jones Indices and Van Eck, the S&P/ASX Franked Dividend Index. Neiron added, "FDIV will be the only passive investment strategy that only includes Australian companies that have paid dividends with 100% franking credits. "Australian investors ...