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Maple-Brown Abbott finetunes Aussie equities lineup

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
The Sydney boutique is winding up its geared Australian equities fund after underperformance and dwindling assets, while trimming the fees on two others. Maple-Brown Abbott 's Australian Geared Equity Fund has been around since 2002 and uses leverage ...

Big year for ESG ahead: MSCI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2021
The move towards environmental, social and governance (ESG) considerations dominated MSCI's Investment Insights 2021 survey. Around 200 executives at different asset owners were surveyed by phone late last year, representing sovereign wealth funds ...

Future Fund increases cash again

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JAN 2021
The $171 billion sovereign wealth fund increased its cash position to 19.8% or about $34 billion, as it reports a positive year for returns ending December. Future Fund returned 1.7% in the year after positive returns in the September and December quarters ...

Family home dominates adviser conversations

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2021
Investment and retirement strategies around the family home were hot topics for financial advisers' clients in 2020. BT financial advisers' December 2020 quarter survey found clients continue to query advisers about their eligibility for the ...

Zenith partners with MSCI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2021
Zenith Investment Partners has partnered with MSCI to enhance the delivery of institutional-grade portfolio analysis, service scalability, insights and reporting to its managed account portfolio clients. Zenith said it will roll out the MSCI BarraOne ...

ETF industry approaches $100bn

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2021
As new investors turned to exchange-traded funds (ETFs) to cash in on the market volatility and consequent recovery in 2020, the industry reaped the benefits breaking several records, new research shows. The BetaShares Australian ETF Review for year ...

Quoted funds going strong at Mainstream

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2021
Mainstream said half of the 150,000 plus investors it services are now invested in a quoted fund, as it reports December quarter assets. Mainstream added $14 billion in funds under advice, four clients and 53 funds in the quarter ending December 2020. ...

Ignition Advice expands team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
Digital advice technology provider Ignition Advice has appointed a business development director for APAC, as it grows its global team. Rob Coulter will step into the role, joining from the Association of Financial Advisers where he was general manager ...

Chief economist update: Yuan the victim of China's success

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2021
The Chinese yuan has seen a sharp appreciation, leading major Chinese news outlets to report that the government would be relaxing rules to make it simpler to settle the currency internationally. 'Twas less than one and a half years ago that the ...

Chief economist update: COVID with a vengeance

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2021
Brexit is over. But even before the UK and the EU shook hands on the post-Brexit trade and cooperation pact on 24 December 2020 and before the ink on the signatures of European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, European Council President Charles ...