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Active ETF review results imminent

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
ASIC will meet with key players in the active ETF space this afternoon and is expected to release the findings of its review of the sector as early as this evening. The corporate regulator has invited product issuers, market makers and the exchanges ...

Concerns over rise of the mega-fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 DEC 2019
... addressed, is what will happen if an active part of these mega-funds underperforms. "It's very easy if you appoint an active manager but it's not particularly easy if you have an internal team running the money," he said. APRA statistics show that in ...

Active fixed income funds review fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
... gaze but wholesale and retail channel is really going down the managed accounts path and it will put pressure on active manager fees," Sebire says. The fee pressure is on in institutional land too, but it is not as cutthroat. JANA senior consultant Robert ...

Industry still shy of flat dollar fees: Frontier

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
A report from Frontier Advisors suggests superannuation funds and investment managers are still not comfortable with flat dollar fees. The report, titled 'Managing costs and aligning interests: A decade on', written by director Fiona Trafford-Walker ...

ASX faces challenge on ETF stronghold

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
ASX-listed exchange traded funds have raised close to $56 billion but now its lesser-known rival Chi-X is ready to start listing ETFs, with a Kapstream fund kicking off on it today. Chi-X started off trading small amounts of equities in Australia in ...

Stanford Brown eyes expansion

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
The private wealth firm is gearing up to add to its offering, chief executive Jonathan Hoyle says. Stanford Brown's core business is private wealth but it offers ancillary services including mortgage broking, property buying and insurance. In the coming ...

Fund Manager of the Year revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2019
The Fund Manager of the Year has been named at the eighth annual Zenith Fund Awards, with the winner also taking out top honours for infrastructure and international equities excellence. Magellan Asset Management took home the Fund Manager of the Year ...

Regal appoints global distribution lead

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
Regal Funds Management has appointed a new global head of distribution, recruiting from Pendal Group. Rebecca Fesq will join the investment manager after five years at Pendal Group after where she is head of client experience and direct. She takes on ...

Aussie active managers underperform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
Rainmaker research revealed that over the three years to June 2019 the median managers in all active investment categories underperformed their respective benchmark returns. The research looked at active core, high performance and small companies funds. ...

Boutique wins industry fund mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 23 SEP 2019
... Partners, run by Perpetual Investments' former deputy head of equities Nathan Parkin, as it swapped out an existing active manager. "We think Ethical Partners is a stronger addition to the lineup," Christian Super chief investment officer Tim Macready ...