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Capital Group chairman passes away

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
James Rothenberg, the chairman of active investment management giant Capital Group, has died at the age of 69. Rothenberg, who recently celebrated 45 years with the company, suffered a heart attack on 21 July. He served in a variety of leadership positions ...

Not all active managers are traders

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2015
... passive investment management and indexing isn't as clear cut as many investors might think it is. Operating an active investment strategy is often associated with portfolio managers making regular trades to tactically pick stocks, often on a daily basis ...

Tassie RBF awards GAM $100m mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2015
... options: RBF Growth, RBF Balanced, RBF Moderate, and lifecycle option, RBF MyPath. Based in Zurich, GAM is a purely active investment manager with $US127 billion in FUM. RBF has managed superannuation for Tasmanian public sector employees since 1904 ...

ANZ enters fast growing ETF market

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2015
... (FoFA) where advisers don't receive commissions for investments. At the same time, investors become more aware of active investment. "The implementation of FoFA has created a more level playing field for ETFs, advisers won't be looking only at investments ...

Not over yet for active management

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2015
... are promoting 'smart beta' strategies, but it's also why institutional investment clients are tilting their active investment allocations towards areas that are very hard to optimise such as private equity, hedge funds and infrastructure. However, to ...

Super funds turning to passive to tackle high fees

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2015
... 0.23% for industry funds. The reduction in fees has been accompanied by increased use of passive rather than active investment management.A The percentage of assets passively managed by a representative basket of retail funds has risen from 24.0% in ...

Retail funds deny relying on passive investment

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 23 OCT 2014
... product. BT's head of retail and corporate superannuation Vicki Doyle said BT Super for Life was also committed to active investment. "There are all sorts of views on how you get there, but we fundamentally believe in active management," she told Financial ...

NZ Super CEO higher paid than Aussie counterparts

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 10 OCT 2014
... with 25% in Europe and 14% in New Zealand. The report also showed that the fund heavily favours passive over active investment, with 70% of its investments managed this way. Chairman Gavin Walker, chairman of NZ Super Fund, said the salary and cost structure ...

Drastically limit number of default funds: Grattan CEO

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... Australia." Another way to reduce costs, Daley said, was to introduce mandate the use of passive rather than active investment strategies. "I have spoken to some of the architects of 'MySuper', and the response from them has been, "with the glorious ...

Perennial chief executive steps down

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 JUN 2014
... Invesco. He has close to 30 years' experience in the financial services industry. Perennial is a specialist, active investment management firm. Formed in 1999 through a joint venture between senior investment professionals and IOOF, Perennial manages ...