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Plato appoints senior manager for Global Shares Fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
... Fund. Daniel Pennell joined the fund manager from Realindex Investments, a Colonial First State subsidiary focused on smart beta. As lead manager, he was responsible for all developed and emerging market equity products. Before that Pennell has also ...

Parametric exploring super smart beta

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
A global asset manager linked to Australian superannuation funds has been toiling with passive and smart beta strategies over the past year on the back of renewed interest. Such is the interest that Parametric Australia expects to double its assets ...

Silk joins PRI advisory committee

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... and active ownership, and provide insight into innovative approaches to integrating ESG considerations, such as in smart beta and strategic beta strategies," a PRI statement said. Silk's appointment follows news in November that HESTA chair Angela Emslie ...

IFM Investors launches new equities team

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... is one of Australia's largest enhanced passive equities managers and recently launched a global enhanced passive and smart beta equity offering. Its active small caps strategy also reached soft close last year. The company manages about $64.5 billion ...

Magellan top earning ETP

JOHN DYALL  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2015
... didn't even exist. It's totally unlike nearly every other ETP on the market. It's not an index product and it's not a smart beta product. It's the Magellan Global Equities Fund and in November it earned $370,000 in management fees on funds of $392 million. ...

Industry fund to double investment team

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2015
... consultant Mercer Investments. "While we will manage the analysis of a full spectrum of managers, from passive through smart beta to highly active hedge funds, we will not be looking to take on the operational and agency risk of in-house asset management," ...

SSgA launches smart beta multi factor ETF

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) has launched a smart beta exchange traded fund (ETF) that combines value, volatility and quality. The SPDR MSCI World Quality Mix Fund tracks the MSCI World Quality Mix Index and has been listed on the Australian ...

Fee pressure turns super funds to smart beta

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... funds to look for new ways to deliver returns at a low cost and some are starting to think the solution might be in smart beta. Head of HSBC Global Asset Management in Australia, Geoffrey Pidgeon, told Financial Standard : "Smart beta is becoming more ...

Passive strategies benefit active managers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
Investors' shift towards passive and smart beta strategies is a great trend for active managers, according to Standard Life Investments (SLI) head of global equities Mikhail Zverev. "It is very strange to see an active manager saying that we quite like ...

Strong passive flows force managers to lower fees

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... approaches, high-conviction and product innovation; scale beta, which includes market leaders in passive strategies and smart beta providers; global broad capability, managers with a broad array of investment strategies, global brand recognition and ...