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Grant Samuel launches global equities fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
Grant Samuel Funds Management has launched a global equity fund that invests in listed global companies and includes an options based overlay to reduce the volatility of returns. The Grant Samuel Global Equity Advantage Fund combines an underlying equity ...

Cbus appoints ESG investment manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2015
... offices and will commence on Monday 16 November. Cbus has more than 720,000 members, 97,000 employers and $31 billion in funds under management.

ME launches industry fund-branded credit cards

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
ME Bank has partnered with three industry funds to offer superannuation members co-branded credit cards. AustralianSuper, Hostplus and Cbus are the first three industry funds to have their branding on a credit card. The initiative follows the release ...

Vanguard wins adviser vote

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... attempting to move away from being 'stock-pickers'. An increasing number of advisers are migrating towards using unlisted managed funds and exchange-traded funds to achieve diversification. "This is a reflection of planners increasingly prioritising ...

Multi-asset funds rated high but risk disappointment

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... ratings, but warned that they are most at risk of "return disappointment." Morningstar's latest Sector Wrap-Up for multi-asset funds has rated 59 different strategies and awarded six of them the highest possible score, the Analyst Rating of Gold. BlackRock ...

Catholic Super reappoints NAS as custodian

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... making them the right custodian for our fund and our members," Pegan said. Catholic Super currently has about $7 billion in funds under management on behalf of more than 72,000 members and more than 10,000 employers. NAS is the largest custodian in the ...

BetaShares launches managed Aussie equities ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... similar to the ASX 200) while employing an active risk management strategy. It is specifically designed for self-managed super funds (SMSFs) as well as pre-retirees and retirees looking for equity exposure with reduced volatility. "Investors and their ...

Super funds predict Aussie dollar fall

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
Superannuation funds investing offshore will look to limit hedging strategies if their predictions ring true that the Aussie dollar will fall over the next two years. Sixty per cent of 40 Australian super funds surveyed by National Australia Bank (NAB) ...

ETFs hit $20bn in assets under management

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
It took 12 years for exchange traded funds (ETFs) to reach the first $10 billion and less than two to hit the $20 billion milestone. The October 2015 monthly update by the ASX shows that exchange traded products (ETPs), which include ETFs, show the ...

Multi-sector investments reach $555 billion

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... Australians had more than $555 billion of managed fund assets invested in multi-sector investment trusts, superannuation funds, pensions and insurance bonds as at 31 July 2015, according to Morningstar. The researcher recently completed qualitative research ...