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Industry leaders in sales and marketing recognised at MAX Awards

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
... Fund Investment Product of the Year: Fidelity Asia Fund Finalists: PIMCO Global Bond Fund Alphinity Wholesale Australian Equity Fund Antipodes Global Fund Lazard Global Infrastructure Fund Sales Team of the Year: Vanguard Investments Finalists: Fidante ...

Fidante eyes actively managed ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... natural products for us to lead with," Saines said. Fidante Partners has 16 boutique managers, including fixed income, equity and global managers. The umbrella-brand ActiveX will include ETF launches from these managers. "There is absolutely no constraint ...

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
... recent inclusion of 226 China A-shares to several MSCI indexes is opening a floodgate of foreign capital to the Chinese equity market and at the very least disrupting the $2.6 trillion which tracks the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Phased in over a two-stage ...

Chief economist update: China's neo-great leap forward

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2018
... uncertainty over its trade spat with the US and concerns over the US-North Korea summit or the spill-over from the general equity market anxiety that has befallen most global financial markets in the second half of May or its ballooning debt, or selling ...

Thematic SMAs on the rise

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAY 2018
... accounts. Praemium has added three themed global share portfolios from Macrovue; the Macroevue Car of the Future Concentrated Equity SMA, the Macrovue Disruptive Technologies Concentrated Equity SMA, and the Macrovue International Equity Income Concentrated ...

InvestSMART to launch active ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 MAY 2018
InvestSMART will launch an initial public offering for an actively-managed equity income ETF on May 14. The InvestSMART Australian Equity Income Fund (managed fund), trading under the ticker code INIF, will mirror InvestSMART's Australian Equity Income ...

Research expert joins Fidelity

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 MAY 2018
... report to Henk-Jan Rikkerink, Fidelity International's global head of research, who is located in Hong Kong and oversees 143 equity analysts. He led the Australian research team at T. Rowe Price for more than seven years and joined the global asset management ...

Vanguard launches two active factor ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2018
... active exchange-traded funds for Australian investors on the ASX tomorrow. The first of the two new ETFs is Global Value Equity (ASX: VVLU), and invests in global equities with value characteristics. The second, the Global Minimum Volatility (ASX: VMIN) ...

Contango restructure sees reduced headcount

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
... Switzer Asset Management as a key part of CGA's new strategy. Prior to entering into an agreement to acquire all remaining equity in Switzer AM, CGA owned 46.25% of the business. Consideration for the remainder will be 7,166,667 CGA shares - and no cash ...

Don't blame ETFs: Spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 19 FEB 2018
... for the next severe share market downturn. The amount of money invested via indexing means that about 15% of the global equity market value and less than 5% of the fixed income market is indexed, but the reality is even with the growing popularity of ...