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Grant Samuel reaches milestone with shareholder yield funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2013
... Investment Partners, offer a high yield, consistent dividend to investors by dividing into two funds: one hedged, one unhedged. "Most other funds distribute capital gains in good years and not much in lean years," Grant Samuel Funds Management head of ...

Magellan eyes sophisticated investors with new fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 JUN 2013
... came after demand from offshore investors. Magellan is launching a hedged global fund that will complement the current unhedged Global Fund The asset manager will also launch an unhedged Infrastructure Fund that will complement the already existing hedged ...

Sinking emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... below that of US Treasuries. Not to mention, the re-introduction of currency risk resulting from the US dollar's climb. Unhedged, investors could be hit by a double whammy of widening interest rate spread (relative to US bonds) and depreciating emerging ...

Platinum board restructure, Neilson steps down as CIO

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
... deputy chief investment officer. He has worked for Platinum since 2000 and is the manager of Platinum Japan fund, Platinum Unhedged fund and manages a portion of the flagship fund. "The Board recognises that we will now have four memeber of the executive ...

Don't sell your fixed income investments: JBWere

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
... trimming over-extended positions, reducing company and sector concentrations, accepting lower return assets and considering unhedged global equity funds to protect against a "misbehaving" Aussie dollar.

SSgA launches global equity ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... ETFs will appeal to investors wanting to buy more equities but not wanting to increase their domestic weighting. The unhedged ETF will appeal to investors who think the Australian dollar will go down," said SSgA Australia's head of SPDR ETFs Amanda Skelly. ...

A-REITs come out on top in 2012

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... with some delivering even higher. Australian equities and global shares (hedged) posted nearly 20% and global shares (unhedged) delivered 14.7%. Australian bonds returned 7.7% and international bonds achieved 9.7%.

Certitude to access Threadneedle global income fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2012
... paying companies worldwide. The new Australian registered scheme will be called the Threadneedle Global Equity Income (Unhedged) fund and will invest its assets in the already established offshore Threadneedle Global Equity Income fund. "Threadneedle ...

Cost pressures spark Vanguard fee cuts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... fee on the Australian Shares Index Fund will almost halve from 0.34% to 0.18%, the International Shares Index Fund fee (unhedged) will also halve from 0.36% to 0.18%. The new fee for the AUD hedged iteration will be 0.21% and the Australian Fixed Interest ...

ETFs pull away from $5bn mark

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 APR 2012
... according to the provider. "In a month where the Australian dollar fell sharply against the US dollar, it was no surprise unhedged international equities ETFs performed well and also had strong inflows," said Drew Corbett, head of investment strategy ...