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Firetrail global opportunities fund hits ASX

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2022
... or unrecognised by the wider investment community. Because of this, the portfolio is typically very different to both passive and active global equity ETFs." This fund is for investors who are seeking a long-term exposure to a high conviction, concentrated ...

NZ Super shifts $25bn to low carbon indices

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2022
... the new benchmark taking effect on 1 July 2022. The changes apply to the fund's reference portfolio benchmark and its passive investments in global equities. The fund previously tracked a custom version of the MSCI All Country World Investible Market ...

What's missing for advisers: Atchison Consultants

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2022
According to Atchison Consultants principal Kevin Toohey, financial advisers have a unique challenge in applying a passive, broad-based approach to constructing the defensive part of a client's portfolio. Referring to the composition of the Bloomberg ...

Martin Currie introduces Aussie equities strategy

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
... the public. Martin Currie Australia chief investment officer Reece Birtles said: "Unlike 'traditional' quant and passive funds that rely on backward-looking signals, this strategy utilises Martin Currie's forward-looking and, on the ground ...

MLC Asset Management grows managed accounts offering

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  THURSDAY, 18 AUG 2022
... portfolios capture the return opportunities of active management, and the value model portfolios manage costs through select passive exposures, providing clients with choice. MLC general manager of direct capabilities and specialist investment services ...

A solution to active fund underperformance

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 12 AUG 2022
... market capitalisation approach of selecting shares, bond and other assets. "Smart beta combines the best of active and passive investing: having the potential for better investment outcomes while being rules-based, transparent and cost efficient," Neiron ...

Inalytics develops new data-driven model

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2022
... enhance performance. "Active fund managers are looking to fight back against the competitive pressures they face from passive funds offering cheap exposure to equity markets," Di Mascio said. "If active managers can't compete on price, they must ...

Brookfield, Infratil sell mobile towers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 JUL 2022
Brookfield Asset Management and Infratil are offloading their stakes in Vodafone New Zealand's passive mobile tower assets. Brookfield and Infratil bought 49.5% each of the assets in 2019 for NZ$1 billion. Now, alongside Vodafone, which will continue ...

Hostplus links returns to active approach

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2022
... different market conditions, enables us to smooth out returns over the longer term, as opposed to some of the lower cost, passive products in the marketplace where investors are more exposed to market movements." "With more volatility forecasted in the ...

Uncertain times calls for portfolio dynamism: Insight

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2022
... funds are growing ever larger, and with that, they certainly have far more foreign currency risks," he said. He said a passive hedging program is needed in instances such as these but how they're done can make a real difference. Ereira said: "They'll ...