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Northern Trust launches low carbon strategy

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2021
... seeking a reduction in carbon intensity in the portfolio and potential emissions from fossil fuels relative to the MSCI World Index. Since inception, QLV Low Carbon has seen a 50% reduction in carbon intensity relative to the benchmark. It also employs ...

Colonial First State reports 22.4% in super returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
... beneficiary of strong returns in equities and credit markets, Tully said the managers were able to add value beyond the index returns. As an example, he cited RealIndex which has a global equities allocation from FirstChoice and did 8.6% above its benchmark ...

Demand soars for global equities ETFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
... said it had its second largest quarter on record with over $2 billion in inflows, namely across Vanguard Australian Shares Index ETF (VAS, $766 million), Vanguard MSCI Index International Shares ETF (VGS, $404 million) and Vanguard Diversified High Growth ...

AMP North adds portfolios

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
... range of PMPs includes the first values-based sustainable managed portfolios in the market a portfolio series which combines index and active management. "Advisers and their clients can expect further managed portfolio releases through the North platform ...

Active managers lead new ETF issuers

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... billion of inflows, up 1% from 2020 however, the top three active ETFs accounted for around 80% of the category's flows. Index ETFs accounted for 81% of inflows and smart beta with 8%. Vanguard and BetaShares led the inflows receiving around 65% of industry ...

Economic recap: Week to July 9

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... (although it slipped from the preliminary reading of 62.6). This is consistent with the decline in the ISM non-manufacturing index to a reading of 60.1 in June from 64.0 in May. The report showed that non-manufacturing business activity (60.4 versus ...

Significant drop in charitable giving

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
According to the inaugural JBWere NAB Charitable Giving Index, Australians are giving less - possibly due to the pandemic. The dramatic fall in giving led to an overall decrease in donations by 16% in the six months to December 2020, taking giving back ...

MySuper performance soars

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2021
... financial returns in over three decades, new research shows. The latest data from Rainmaker Information's Default MySuper Index recorded 2020/21 financial year returns of an average of 18%, after all fees and taxes. According to Rainmaker, the latest ...

Copia launches impact fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 JUL 2021
... institutional relationships across Australia." The performance objective of the fund is to outperform the MSCI All Country World Index NTR AUD by at least 2% per annum after fees, over three-year periods. Copia will seek to have the fund rated.

Economic recap: Week to July 2

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2021
... This makes the continued rise in house prices hardly surprising. CoreLogic's "5 capital cities aggregate" home value index rose by 1.9% over the month of June and by 12.1% year-on-year. Home values in Hobart registered the biggest increase (3.0%) ...