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Global manager wins super fund mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 DEC 2018
... This is Parametric's first tax-managed factor mandate win in Australia. It is benchmarked against a custom after-tax benchmark. Parametric Australia's chief executive Chris Briant said he's positive of winning similar mandates on the future. "In our ...

Chief economist update: Powell Power

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2018
... be neutral. We may go past neutral, but we're a long way from neutral at this point, probably." As a result, US benchmark equity indices dropped in the month of October - S&P 500 (-6.9%); DJIA (-5.1%); Nasdaq (-9.2%); Russell 2000 (-10.9) - pulling ...

AMP Capital adds to student living portfolio

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2018
... of a philanthropic partnership between the University of Melbourne and Hansen Little Foundation that will set a new benchmark for student living including a flagship scholarship program as well as a program aimed at academic and social enrichment. ADIT ...

BEAR should be expanded, ASIC included: Shipton

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2018
... his team to undertake a review to ensure they are holding themselves to the highest standard of account, "using as a benchmark the standards we expect of others." Asked who or what body would be charged with ensuring ASIC complies with the regime, Shipton ...

Chief economist update: Thanks for nothing

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... away but the way the US equity market is going, investors have nothing to give thanks for. Three of Wall Street's benchmark equity indices are now in the red for the year - S&P 500 down 1.2% year-to-date; DJIA down 1%; Russell 2000 down 4.3%. The ...

Australia's first active fixed income ETF goes live

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... houses Lonsec, Morningstar and Zenith this year and has delivered 3.18% per annum over a three-year period, beating the benchmark by 0.26%. Australian investors have been traditionally been underweight fixed income as over-the-counter markets with large ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... financial crisis, Tweeboom says it's been increasingly difficult for active managers to deliver performance above the benchmark, leading to a proliferation of passive products. "This is partly due to the lack of volatility in the market and partly ...

ETFs: Buy strategy not structure

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
... macroeconomic or global sector shifts. It is heavily weighted to Asia and developing Asia, which is materially different to the benchmark. The EQMF was seeded with $20 million, funded by Antipodes and Pinnacle.

We must do better: ASFA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... generation and generations to come to do a better job each and every year." While the ASFA standard is widely accepted as the benchmark for living expenses in retirement, it is one that is still a long way off for most Australians, he added. "It disturbs ...

Merger to create $885m LIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2018
... major banks, Macquarie, AMP, Amcor, QBE, BHP and Woolworths. Since its 2004 inception, it returned 11.3%, beating its benchmark by 2.2%. WLE, which has a similar mandate, invests in large-cap Australian companies in the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation Index. ...