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Antipodes Partners expands team

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2018
... under management by another 20% or $1.6 billion in the coming three years. Antipodes has also launched an actively managed ETF this year, adding to its listed offering that already includes a LIC. Chief investment officer Jacob Mitchell is currently ...

Australia's first active fixed income ETF goes live

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... yesterday, Western Asset Management portfolio manager Anthony Kirkham listed the Betashares Legg Mason Australian Bond Fund. The ETF (ASX: BNDS) is built on back of Western Asset Management's Australia Bond Fund which has about $600 million in funds ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... of this­ happening, says Petering, who heads institutional distribution for Australia, is unlikely given the size of the ETF market. "It's not as big as what people imagine," she told the recent Financial Standard ETF Forum. Of the global $175 trillion ...

ETFs: Buy strategy not structure

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
... products came down to asset managers with not enough underlying momentum in their strategies. Establishing the EQMF or active ETF was driven by a "secular shift" where investors were moving from unlisted managed funds to listed offerings. However it ...

ETPs attracting money despite volatility

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2018
... during October opened up great opportunities for investors to buy ETFs at a lower price. This increase in inflows suggests the ETF industry is still very much in a growth phase, highlighting the significant appeal of ETFs in enabling investors to achieve ...

Platypus distribution director departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
The distribution director at Platypus Asset Management has left for a role at Fidante as the former reviews its distribution options. Mark Hearne was responsible for Platypus' institutional, family office and private wealth sales for two-and-a-half ...

Retirement planning gets a recession check

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
As talks about a global recession grow louder, financial advisers and investors are repositioning their clients' nest eggs against a market crash or an economic slowdown. In the past fortnight, a JPMorgan quantitative model predicted a 60% chance ...

Magellan boosts retail push for Airlie

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 25 OCT 2018
... funds held $1.3 billion at 30 June 2018, making them the sixth-largest exchange trade product issuer in Australia, ahead of ETF Securities, Russell, Platinum and UBS who bring up the rear end of the list. MFG's FY18 earnings showed Airlie Funds Management ...

Two new ETFs on the block

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2018
VanEck and BetaShares have announced new ETFs, as product launches in the segment heat up. A new smart beta ETF from VanEck will invest in China A-shares, after the manager gained a licence to invest in the asset class independent of the China Stock ...

Under the hood of low-fee funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
Lower fee multi-asset funds that skimp on alternatives investments can take a beating in market downturns, new research by Zenith has found. Its 2018 multi asset diversified review compared the performance and drawdown of 88 funds, splitting them into ...