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AustralianSuper backs net-zero emissions

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
AustralianSuper is pledging to achieve net-zero carbon emissions in its investment portfolios and ramping up its commitment to renewables. Following a board meeting in October, the super fund decided it was in members' best interest that it positions ...

UBS, Insight IM win Future Fund mandates

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
... SouthPeak Investment Management (alternative risk premia). The fund undertook a "material rebalance of the private equity portfolio" last financial year, reducing some of its exposure to international growth and buyout managers following a period of ...

Low rates put retirees at risk: Vanguard

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... The research warned of the risk of tilting a portfolio towards value stocks, finding that the higher yield an equity portfolio delivers, the more substantial the amount of concentration risk the portfolio holds. "Previously proposed changes to dividend ...

AMP Capital buys digital infrastructure firm

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... AMP Capital will acquire a majority stake in a Swedish technology company, adding to its growing infrastructure equity portfolio. AMP Capital will be a majority shareholder in VX Fiber, which provides fibre-to-the-premises (FTTP) networks by partnering ...

Boutique extends GBST partnership

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2020
Warakirri Asset Management has extended its partnership with after-tax investment-focused service provider GBST for its superannuation clients to include international indices. Warakirri and GBST have worked together for a decade, providing custom after-tax ...

Future Fund posts negative year, cashes up

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2020
... respond to emerging opportunities and risks." Arndt said during FY20, the fund materially rebalanced its private equity portfolio [which returned positive in the year, according to Brake], reducing some of its exposure to international growth and buyout ...

VanEck to launch four new ETFs

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... Bristol-Myers Squibb, Resmed and Gilead Sciences, he said. Meanwhile, GOAT is a high conviction international equity portfolio of at least 50 attractively priced wide moat companies as determined by Morningstar, VanEck said. To date, Aussie investors ...

Take your CAPE ratio with a grain of salt

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2020
... it really does not tell you anything about future returns for the next one to three years," Lazard Australian equity portfolio manager Aaron Binsted told Financial Standard. "It's an effective measure of value at a very simple headline level. You ...

Future Super ramps up direct equities

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... low cost, highly liquid and well managed exposure to a range of assets classes. The core of Future Super's equity portfolio remains in ETFs however as Future Super grows and as the demographics of the fund change, we are adding an increasing number ...

Melbourne boutique deepens Canadian ties

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... said. "This fund is a strong solution for longer-term investors seeking exposure to a global, growth-oriented equity portfolio."