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IML senior portfolio manager resigns

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... Tagliaferro has taken over the fund Teh managed, the IML Equity Income Fund. The Equity Income Fund invests in quality stocks on the ASX and aims to deliver an income stream with lower volatility levels relative to the S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation Index. ...

VanEck ETFs receive Zenith rating

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2016
... leverage," Neiron said. Zenith said that the Australian Equal Weight ETF creates balanced exposure and removes all bias to stocks by weight of market cap as a result of the equal weight methodology; "exposure to an index which uses a simple mechanism ...

ACSI calls time on all-male boards

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 OCT 2016
... argument for ACSI's stance on the issue. The research focused on returns for super funds rather than performance of ASX 200 stocks, but it is nonetheless illustrative. Back in March, Rainmaker analysed FY2015 and calendar 2015 investment returns for ...

Portfolio rebalancing highlights adviser value

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2016
... defined rebalancing strategy - and informed clients - takes the emotion out of investing, stops your clients chasing falling stocks or hanging on to stocks which have performed well too long," Weldon said. The cost implication of rebalancing portfolios ...

Zurich fund receives first rating

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 14 OCT 2016
... fund's unique focus on companies with sustainable high dividend yield and its ability to outperform low dividend yielding stocks with lower volatility over a full market cycle. The fund is managed by US based investment manager Wells Capital Management's ...

Perpetual Global Share Fund strengthens defence

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
Perpetual has upped the cash weighting in its Global Share Fund and decreased its exposure to cyclical stocks on concerns the end of the economic cycle is approaching. The fund has increased its cash allocation to 18%, up from a five-and-a-half year ...

Legg Mason, AB funds highly recommended

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
... 'low volatility' and 'quality' market anomalies that the fund was targeting, and that the flexibility to invest in global stocks and allocate to cash enhanced the fund's ability to generate "an attractive asymmetrical upside and downside capture profile." ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
... improvements were recorded in: trading conditions (+17 from +13); profitability (+7 from +4); forward orders (+8 from +2); stocks (+2 from +1) and exports (+2 from +1). The employment sub-index fell to a reading of +1 in September from +4 in August. ...

New BetaShares fund combats investor bias

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
... BetaShares Australian Ex-20 Portfolio Diversifier ETF is designed to track an index providing exposure to about 180 listed stocks on the ASX assessed by their market capitalisation. Additional portfolio diversification will be provided by the index capping ...

EAM Investors wins first Australian mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
... Markets Small Cap Strategy to its IOOF MultiMix global equities multi-manager structure. EAM said emerging markets small cap stocks are often underrepresented within institutional investors' emerging markets exposures where there is typically a bias ...