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Epoch funds get upgrade from Zenith

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2014
Zenith Investment Partners has upgraded the Grant Samuel Epoch Global Equity Shareholder Yield Funds, hedged and unhedged, from "Recommended" to "Highly Recommended." In its product assessment Zenith said the funds are well-managed, providing international ...

Vanguard launches hedged and unhedged intl ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... (hedged) ETF (ASX:VGAD) offer investors exposure to around 1500 companies across 22 markets, excluding Australia. The unhedged VGS tracks the MSCI World ex-Australia (with net dividends reinvested) in Australian dollars Index, and the hedged VGAD tracks ...

Resolution Capital to manage Perennial REITs

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 NOV 2014
... Australian and global real estate securities strategies. The mandate is effective from November 1, 2014, and will include an unhedged option to the global property securities fund to complement the existing Australian dollar hedged fund. Resolution Capital ...

Days of outstanding emerging markets returns numbered

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... market equities have still outperformed international and Australian equities over a 10-year period. Emerging markets (unhedged) have returned 9.3% per annum over the period compared to 8.9% from International equities (hedged) and 9.1% from domestic ...

FEATURE: The cost of cash

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... in 2013, and the much safer global fixed income market - as represented by the Citigroup World Government Bond Index (Unhedged in AUD) - returned 11.41%, and it's difficult to see why anybody is holding term deposits at all. For the full story, download ...

ETF market has first fall in 20 months

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2014
... markets," BetaShares managing director Alex Vynokur said. Net outflows for January were small with the majority coming from unhedged gold, with investors taking the opportunity to exit as the price of gold increased approximately 7% for the month. "Products ...

Resolution Capital celebrates 10-year anniversary

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014
... investment strategies outperforming benchmarks since inception. The Resolution Capital Global Property Securities Strategy (Unhedged) passed its seven year anniversary in December 2013 with outperformance of 4.9% p.a. since inception. The Resolution ...

Super fund fortunes shift on FX exposure

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 AUG 2013
Unhedged foreign currency exposure may be the way to go for super funds after a fall in the Australian dollar contributed 8.8% to unhedged portfolios in the last financial year. This bucks the trend of recent years. According to the NAB Superannuation ...

SSgA launches hedged international equities ETF

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... into Australian dollars and begins trading on 9 July. Since March this year, Australian investors have had access to an unhedged global equities ETF, the SPDR S&P World ex-Australia, priced in Australian dollars and listed on the ASX. SSgA said both ...

REST thanks overseas equities for high returns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... performance over the last 12 months," REST chief operating officer Paul Sayer said. "Our bias to overseas equities and an unhedged position to overseas equities further enhanced our performance, taking advantage of a buoyant overseas share market. Outperformance ...