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Former Vontobel star manager sets course for Australia

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUN 2016
... Vontobel Asset Management as chief investment officer and portfolio manager in emerging markets, and global and international equity strategies. When he took lead portfolio manager responsibility on Vontobel's Global Fund in 2002 it had less than US$400 ...

SPIVA report paints sad picture for active management

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2016
... Australian equity funds underperformed the S&P ASX/200 in the same period. Similarly, nearly 90% of general international equity managers underperformed the S&P Developed Ex-Australia LargeMidCap Index. Only 15% of Australian equity A-REIT managers outperformed ...

Cbus partners QIC for options program

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2016
... exposure. The program will manage a portfolio of exchange-traded equity options for the Australian and major international equity markets, allowing Cbus to tailor their product offering Developed through a partnership with QIC, it can be scaled up or ...

Parametric scores international equities mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
... (ACSRF) will be the first Australian client to adopt Parametric's tax-managed indexing (TMI) strategy. The international equity after-tax passive mandate was awarded following a due diligence and rating process by Willis Towers Watson and ACSRF's internal ...

Antipodes Partners recruits investment analyst

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2016
... boutique founded in March 2015. The company was launched with $200 million in seed money from Perennial's international equity business, which it acquired at the end of 2014. Mitchell and his team manage concentrated long only and long-short global and ...

Parametric announces LGIAsuper mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
... invests more than $9.5 billion for about 90,000 members. LGIAsuper currently uses seven Australian and nine international equity managers and many of these will transition to the CPM portfolio structure. LGIAsuper investment manager Guy Rundle said the ...

Super funds predict Aussie dollar fall

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... the most influence on currency issues, back to 2005 levels There is a rise in the use of dynamic hedging in international equity exposure, to 17% of funds in 2015 from 8% in 2013 Use of cross currency swaps is down to 15% from 20% in 2013 while FX options ...

Market Vectors QUAL ETF added to two platforms

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... platforms. In its first year, QUAL has returned 35.81% (after fees) to 29 October 2015, outperforming the standard international equity benchmark, MSCI World ex Australia Index by 4.42%. Market Vectors Australia's parent company, Van Eck, said the fund ...

Super fund returns fall again in September

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 NOV 2015
... The impact of currency on this aspect of the results is highlighted by the fact that the return from the international equity index in Australian dollars (+19.5%) is significantly higher than the result of international equities in local currency terms ...

FEATURE: Investing in a world on hold

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... it is increasing slowly and has only hit 1.5%," Goldman Sachs Asset Management chief investment officer of international equity Suneil Mahindru explains. This has changed the manager's approach over the last few months. Mahindru, who is also the portfolio ...