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Magellan launches hedged global equities fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... equities expertise via a simple ASX-quoted solution," Magellan general manager of distribution Frank Casarotti said. The unhedged version of the fund has grown to over $257 million since inception in March 2015 and has about 4,450 unit holders. Investors ...

Van Eck lists gold miners ETF on ASX

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUN 2015
... tracks the overall performance of companies involved in the gold mining industry. The ETF is domiciled in the US and unhedged. The top five companies by weighting in April 2015 were Goldcorp (6.86%), Barrick Gold (6.55%), Newmont Mining (6.45%), Newcrest ...

Australia underperforms as China slows down: Russell

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2015
... that Australian equities lagged overseas markets for the second consecutive year. The local market underperformed its unhedged global equities by 6.6% in 2014, while the 10-year return on Australian equities fell from 9.2% to 7.1% at the end of 2014. ...

ANZ enters fast growing ETF market

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... S&P500 index and picks the 40 that have the lowest volatility. This fund, as all the others, is Australian-domiciled and unhedged. The three remaining funds are the Physical Gold ETF (ZGOL), with exposure to ANZ's gold bullion stored at its Singapore ...

China exposure best through Australia: BlackRock

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... government bonds and finance corporate bonds, all in local currency." Half of the currency is hedged, and the other half is unhedged. "India has benefitted from falling oil prices, its government has credibility and the reforms seem to be working. We ...

Pengana partners with queen of small caps

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2015
... the Acorn International Fund. The fund will have an initial capacity of US$500 million ($633 million) and will be run unhedged in Australian dollars. Pengana Capital chief executive, Russell Pillemer, said the fund will invest worldwide, focusing on ...

Former Platinum deputy CIO sets up new boutique

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... Mitchell was a portfolio manager of the flagship Platinum International Fund. He also had responsibility for the Platinum Unhedged Fund (Jan 07 to May 14), achieving 6% per annum outperformance after fees and for the Platinum Japan Fund (Jan 08 to Nov ...

iShares launches currency hedged international ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2015
... iShares Global 100 AUD Hedged ETF costs 0.46%. The new currency hedged ETFs are constructed by combining the respective unhedged iShares ETF with applicable currency forward contracts.

Reasons to cheer amid gloomy predictions

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 27 JAN 2015
... attract long term focused investors, while "any stock exposed to the United States economy will do well," Sherwood added. Unhedged portfolios exposed to global assets can benefit from the falling Australian dollar, which means "this is a good time to ...

Global shares tipped amid slow local growth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
... preferred global equities over domestic equities, and we've also suggested that people leave a very high proportion of that unhedged. We've felt the Australian market looked relatively expensive, and had this large commodity exposure and a sluggish domestic ...