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MSCI Australia executive director departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... Sydney offices. Prior to the role, he was a Morgan Stanley vice president for MSCI. He acted as CBA's head of international equity investments for three years until 2000. He managed portfolios with more than $3 billion in assets under management. He ...

Glut of underperformance in managed funds: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... ago that found similar results. S&P found that over the 10-year period ending 30 June 2018, almost 90% of international equity funds and more than 70% of Australian equity, Australian bonds and A-REIT funds underperformed their respective benchmarks ...

ACDC to power new battery ETF

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 3 SEP 2018
... the way people live. The move comes a week after Vanguard launched two new ethically conscious funds, in international equity and global bond flavours.

Former Arnhem executive takes new role

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2018
... specialist investment manager. Samuel Stobart has taken on the newly created role of head of business development, international equity strategies at Ellerston Capital. Stobart served close to four years at Arnhem, having joined from Perpetual where ...

Thematic SMAs on the rise

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
... Future Concentrated Equity SMA, the Macrovue Disruptive Technologies Concentrated Equity SMA, and the Macrovue International Equity Income Concentrated SMA. The Macrovue Car of the Future Concentrated Equity SMA aims to capitalise on two disruptive sub-themes ...

SMSF home bias drags returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... return of 0.4%, buoyed by industrials which rose 0.6%. But looking at it broadly over a 12-month period, international equity returns was about 6% percentage points higher than Australian equities. Based on ATO figures, about three-quarters of SMSFs ...

REITs the saving grace on SPIVA scorecard

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2018
... Versus Active Fuds (SPIVA) Australia scorecard. S&P evaluated returns from 109 Australian bond funds, 378 international equity funds, and 786 Australian equity funds including large, mid and small-cap and real estate investment trusts. REITs were the ...

Hunter Hall veteran launches new business

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2018
... International Equities Fund (PIEF), employing a 'benchmark-unaware' strategy with freedom to invest across all international equity markets and company sizes and focused on investing in growing businesses at reasonable valuations.

LGIAsuper bolsters infrastructure investments

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 FEB 2018
... long-term interests of our members, we'll consider it," he said. Rundle said while LGIAsuper's Australian and international equity portfolios were the mainstays of the fund's performance, infrastructure and other diversifying assets played an important ...

VanEck launches sustainable ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 FEB 2018
... VanEck managing director and head of Asia Pacific Arian Neiron said the ETF is a "true-to-label sustainable international equity fund" incorporating both values-based and impact investing. "The ETF is a response to investor demand as investors are re-evaluating ...