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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 ...

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 ...