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Top performing Aussie equity funds unveiled

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
Australian Unity, Lakehouse and Plato were among the Australian equity wholesale managed funds that managed to outperform the index in the latest Rainmaker Information analysis to June end. Australian Unity Platypus Australian Equities came out on top ...

Private equity weathers COVID-19 crisis: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... financial crisis, despite a subdued environment for exit deals in the first half of the year. In a survey of 36 private equity funds with exposure to more than 300 companies globally, the results revealed the turmoil and volatility in capital markets ...

SG Hiscock, Morgan Stanley launch global equity funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
Boutique fund manager SG Hiscock has partnered with Morgan Stanley to exclusively distribute their global equity funds in Australia. The SGH Partnership Program has been launched with the Morgan Stanley Global Quality fund (hedged and unhedged) and ...

Volatility is not the devil: Pengana

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... opportunities it presents. That's according to Pengana Capital Group executive director and manager for the international equity funds division for Australia, Joy Yacoub. "History reminds us that markets are not stable. Yet, with stability comes complacency ...

Bennelong adds to institutional distribution team

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... Group, an investment company that partners with boutiques asset managers across the globe to deliver actively managed equity funds. Outside Australia the group operates as BennBridge, with a presence in the UK and US. Last year BennBridge announced two ...

Hedge funds rally in April, but YTD still bleed red

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... +11.89% in April, but are in the red at -17.67% for the year." Other performance winners in April were long/short equity funds and origination and financing funds, which saw returns of 7.95% and 7.21% respectively, eVestment said. "Long/short equity ...

Schroders appoints regional leadership

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAR 2020
... Australia later this year, with plans afoot to use a fund-of-fund structure to invest in externally-managed private equity funds. The offering sits under the Schroder Adveq brand, which manages about $15 billion globally in primary, secondary and co-investments ...

Aussie ETF industry contracts

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2020
... Asian equities ETFs were sold off, with investors chasing perceivably safer markets. This rush saw short-focused equity funds and precious metals perform strongly during the month. "The top performer for the month was Palladium, followed by BetaShares' ...

Mid and small-caps outperform in 2019

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... respective benchmark indices - and mid and small-caps have come out on top. Surveying returns from 829 Australian equity funds, 420 international equity funds and 115 Australian bond funds, the SPIVA Australia Scorecard found that the majority of Aussie ...

Pengana makes executive hire

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2020
... division down under. Joy Yacoub has nabbed the role as an executive director and manager for Pengana's international equity funds division in Australia and New Zealand. Yacoub will be responsible for Pengana's International Fund, International Ethical ...