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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 ...

Legg Mason acquires UK global equity manager

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JUL 2014
Baltimore-based asset manager Legg Mason has acquired UK international equity manager Martin Currie. With offices in six locations, the addition of Edinburgh-based business (with presence in Australia) expands Legg Mason's capabilities in active global ...

Australian ETF industry passes $11 billion milestone

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAY 2014
... opportunities available to Australian investors through ETFs. The sector attracting the biggest flows in April was international equity-based ETFs attracting $120 million. "The proliferation of ETF choices allows investors to develop tax-effective portfolios. ...

Future Fund and super returns on par

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... alternatives away from debt securities and cash. According to the Future Fund's latest portfolio report its international equity exposure jumped almost one and half times from 24% to 33% over the past 12 months while private equity and infrastructure ...

Aussie shares out of favour as managed fund investors go global

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAR 2014
... active options. Vanguard International Shares Index secured about $509 million inflows. BlackRock Indexed International Equity also garnered a sizeable inflow of about $430 million. The US Federal Reserve's announcement that it would taper its quantitative ...

Investor appetite for global markets on the rise

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 12 NOV 2013
... by Investment Trends and Certitude Global Investments. The findings suggest that the bullish attitude to international equity is not just a faddish response to ambiguous signals from the US Federal Reserve. Certitude Global Investment chief executive ...

Super funds shun Aussie managers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 NOV 2013
... level of choice offered within the Australian market place. "The world is your oyster when you're looking for international equity managers and we don't discriminate on where a fund manager is domiciled," she said. "With Australia's small population ...

Magellan High Conviction fund 'Recommended' by Zenith

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 31 OCT 2013
... Zenith. Managed by Hamish Douglass, the fund provides investors with a highly concentrated exposure to the international equity market. It was launched in July 2013. The fund provides Douglass a platform to enact his highest conviction investment ideas ...

Mason Stevens opens top Magellan fund to managed accounts

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2013
... clients," Mason Stevens chief executive officer Thomas Bignill said. Mason Stevens delivered one of the first international equity portfolios in a managed account structure a little over 18 months ago, where prior to this only domestic equities were ...