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Advisers shift to ETFs from active managers: VanEck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... objectives." VanEck said most financial professionals use smart beta strategies for global equities (77%) and Australian equity (70%) exposure. In addition, the survey found the most popular smart beta strategies used by financial professionals are single ...

Morningstar ratings tally for global equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... consideration for benchmark-relative performance. Five funds were upgraded from bronze to silver include AXA IM Sustainable Equity, Barrow Hanley Global Equity Trust, BlackRock Advantage Hedged Intl Equity/ BlackRock Advantage Intl Equity Fund, Dimensional ...

S&P launches sustainable versions of flagship indices

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
S&P Dow Jones Indices (S&P DJI) has launched sustainability screened versions of its core US equity indices. The new series includes the S&P 500 Sustainability Screened Index, the S&P MidCap 400 Sustainability Screened Index, and the S&P SmallCap 600 ...

VanEck to launch four new ETFs

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 24 AUG 2020
... as Lilly, Bristol-Myers Squibb, Resmed and Gilead Sciences, he said. Meanwhile, GOAT is a high conviction international equity portfolio of at least 50 attractively priced wide moat companies as determined by Morningstar, VanEck said. To date, Aussie ...

Future Super ramps up direct equities

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... to gain low cost, highly liquid and well managed exposure to a range of assets classes. The core of Future Super's equity portfolio remains in ETFs however as Future Super grows and as the demographics of the fund change, we are adding an increasing ...

Melbourne boutique deepens Canadian ties

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... strategy to Canadian retail investors, after raising $1.5 billion in Canada since January 2019. The CI Munro Global Growth Equity strategy was launched to Canadian institutional investors in January, 2019 and has beat its benchmark in the time since. ...

Global manager launches China A-shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
... onshore China stocks via Stock Connect. The new launch builds from Ninety One's 2014 launch of the 4Factor All China Equity strategy (in USD), which delivered 11.5% p.a. over three years compared to benchmark's 2.2%. The carve out for A share ...

Perpetual takes stake in US asset manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON, KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2020
... investment and management personnel. Perpetual will pay about $465 million for the acquisition, funded via a $265 million equity raise (39.5% of the total cost), a new $284 million debt facility (nearly 50%) and cash (10.6%). The acquisition is expected ...

Sovereign investors keen on gold, infrastructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2020
... report, now in its eighth year, found sovereign investors entered COVID-19 with large cash reserves and the lowest level of equity allocations since 2013 both relative to fixed income and as an overall proportion of asset allocation: 26% (equities) versus ...

BlackRock iShares launches two ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 MAY 2020
... ETF to our existing fixed income ETF suite, particularly in the current backdrop of ultra-low interest rates and reduced equity dividends," iShares head of Australasia Christian Obrist said. "Designed with investors' needs in mind, both funds aim ...