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SMSFs will shape the future of ETFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... traditional strategic asset allocation of financial planning clients," Dyall said. Not long after the market saw its first smart beta products, and providers such as BetaShares launched their first currency ETF. It launched the only cash fund in March ...

Fixed income, smart beta need better access

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUN 2016
An Australian ETF provider is moving its focus towards fixed income and smart beta in the view that the local market is currently underserving investors. iShares Australia chief executive Jon Howie told the recent Bloomberg Buy-side Forum in Sydney ...

Omega wins institutional credit mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAY 2016
... size fits all' product approach. Its investment co-design model is implemented via a factor-based approach known as Smart Beta Plus. Omega managing director George Vassos said the partnership with Uniting Financial Services began as a conversation to ...

Factor investing sees new customised approach

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... Factor-based investing is being further pitched at Australian institutional investors at a time when they are thinking outside smart beta products and looking for more outcomes-based solutions. As part of a recent Australian visit, Northern Trust Asset ...

Instos turn to smart beta in low-return world: SSGA

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2016
Institutional investors worldwide are turning to objective and factor-based investment approaches, such as smart beta, to meet their investment goals given the global low interest rate environment. This is one of the findings of State Street Global ...

Plato appoints senior manager for Global Shares Fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
... Fund. Daniel Pennell joined the fund manager from Realindex Investments, a Colonial First State subsidiary focused on smart beta. As lead manager, he was responsible for all developed and emerging market equity products. Before that Pennell has also ...

Parametric exploring super smart beta

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
A global asset manager linked to Australian superannuation funds has been toiling with passive and smart beta strategies over the past year on the back of renewed interest. Such is the interest that Parametric Australia expects to double its assets ...

Silk joins PRI advisory committee

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... and active ownership, and provide insight into innovative approaches to integrating ESG considerations, such as in smart beta and strategic beta strategies," a PRI statement said. Silk's appointment follows news in November that HESTA chair Angela Emslie ...

IFM Investors launches new equities team

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... is one of Australia's largest enhanced passive equities managers and recently launched a global enhanced passive and smart beta equity offering. Its active small caps strategy also reached soft close last year. The company manages about $64.5 billion ...

Magellan top earning ETP

JOHN DYALL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... didn't even exist. It's totally unlike nearly every other ETP on the market. It's not an index product and it's not a smart beta product. It's the Magellan Global Equities Fund and in November it earned $370,000 in management fees on funds of $392 million. ...