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Instos demanding ESG metrics

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... managing director at UBS Asset Management and lead portfolio manager of the top-performing Global Sustainable Equity strategy. He was in Victoria recently to present UBS's research into ESG metrics at the Centre of Investor Education conference. Bertocci ...

Industry fund awards $500m mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUN 2016
An industry superannuation fund has placed $500 million with IFM Investors' global indexed equity strategy. HESTA's large investment marks the first mandate for the recently-launched strategy and IFM Investors chief executive Brett Himbury said the ...

AXA IM global equity SmartBeta fund gets RIAA approval

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... become one of the largest and most experienced in the RI field. Our locally domiciled ESG integrated SmartBeta equity strategy continues to attract strong interest from both institutional and retail investors, looking for a more intelligent and pragmatic ...

Ausbil wins industry fund mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
... industry super fund. Prime Super has tasked the fund manager with managing $100 million through its Australian Active Equity Strategy. Managed by chief executive officer Paul Xiradis and his team, the strategy is a large cap, long-only Australian equities ...

HESTA reduces equities carbon footprint

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
... separately excludes all exposure to tobacco, aligning with HESTA's investment direction. A trio of Russell Investments' equity strategy experts devised a measurement approach "that considers carbon reserves and potential stranded assets in addition to ...

Capital Group rethinks global investment

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2016
Global investment manager Capital Group has launched its US global equity strategy in Australia. The New Perspective fund focuses on trends in global trade and economic and political relationships rather than specific industries or regions. The newly ...

Parametric scores international equities mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2016
... than traditional pre-tax strategies. Briant said super funds can also incorporate factor exposures into their equity strategy and implement screens, using Parametric's capacity to develop customised portfolios. The TMI strategy also provides clients ...

FEATURE: The great race to invest

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... London-based Waverton Investment Management to create the Ironbark Waverton Concentrated Global Equity Fund, a long-only equity strategy that invests in 25 to 40 companies globally. Perpetual Investments is another manager growing its global equities ...

Sunsuper awards large multi-asset mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... global equities fund, the Systematic Global Equity Trust, in Australia. It is based on the firm's Systematic Global Equity strategy, which has outperformed the MSCI World Index by 3.55% per annum over five years.

AMG to take Abax stake

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2015
... assets under management. It specialises in South African equity and fixed income strategies but maintains a global equity strategy as well. Abax's senior partners will continue to own the majority of the company and will manage day-to-day business following ...