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Perpetual Private hires two analysts

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
... assets. Leong, who has joined the business from Perpetual Investments, has previously covered Australian and international equity and property managers at Ibbotson. Perpetual Private's investment research team was restructured in June 2014, when Kyle ...

Active managed fund returns worsen against indices

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2015
... better over five years, still less than 15% of funds beat the benchmark. Performance was not much better for international equity funds with 88.21% underperforming the S&P Developed Ex-Australia LargeMidCap Index over three years. The report also highlighted ...

Islamic investment delivers strong return for Crescent Wealth

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2015
... ethical principles has delivered strong returns for the superannuation fund's 3,500 members. The Crescent International Equity fund, offered within Crescent Wealth's investment options, had returned 29.29% for the year to 28 February 2015 and 61.72% ...

Former Platinum deputy CIO sets up new boutique

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... distribution operations of the funds. Antipodes has launched with $200 million in seed money from Perennial's international equity business, which it acquired at the end of last year. "From when I left school I've wanted to manage global equities," Mitchell ...

Exchange tradeable version of Magellan Global Fund announced

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 FEB 2015
International equity manager Magellan Financial Group is launching an ASX-quoted version of its Magellan Global Fund. The new Magellan Global Equities Fund will be quoted on the ASX AQUA platform on 5 March 2015 under the ticker MGE. The fund is one ...

Zenith awards two funds 'Recommended' ratings

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 29 JAN 2015
Research house Zenith has awarded 'Recommended' ratings to two international equity funds. JPMorgan's Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund received the rating with Zenith praising the investment team as "is one of the strongest within the emerging market ...

Vanguard launches hedged and unhedged intl ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... of 0.18% per annum and 0.21% per annum respectively which puts them among the lowest-cost, locally managed international equity product offerings in the market. The new launches bring the number of ETFs offered by Vanguard for Australian investors and ...

Super sets sights on $2tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 20 NOV 2014
... elsewhere. Half of international fixed interest assets are hedged for currency movements, but only 17% of international equity investments are hedged - reflecting expectations by fund trustees of continued AUD depreciation. Currency hedging for international ...

SMSFs up weighting to international shares

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 OCT 2014
Self-managed super fund (SMSF) trustees have upped their international equity exposures as low interest rates continue to weigh on cash returns, according to the latest Multiport SMSF Investment Patterns Survey. In the June quarter 2014, cash holdings ...

Energy Super discloses all holdings on website

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2014
... how many units are held, and the total value of those units. Around 170 Australian equity holdings and 650 international equity holdings are listed. The fund also lists all of its managers. The user can discover, for example, that Energy Super has 328,941 ...