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First State to dump $40m of thermal coal holdings

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... including its indexed exposures, from thermal coal miners from October and will reduce greenhouse gas emissions in its listed equities exposures by at least 30% by 2023. First State Super currently has shareholdings in BHP, Rio Tinto, Newcrest Mining ...

Best performing managed funds revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... way in dynamic asset allocation with its Global Macro Opportunities Fund returning 7.8% pa over three years. Australian equities large cap best performers were: Australian Unity Platypus Australian Equities (three-year return of 13.9% per year), Bennelong ...

Hostplus bumps cash allocation up

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2020
... allocation was effective from 19 June 2020, when the fund also reduced its allocation to alternatives from 8% to 5% and equities from 44% to 42% in the balanced option. At the start of the new financial year, Hostplus updated its PDS to reflect the new ...

New private debt fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
... helps to provide portfolio diversification, along with a stable cash yield with low risk of capital loss compared to equities." It had about 150 individual investments as at July 1. The boutique manages over $5 billion across seven unlisted strategies ...

Model portfolio growth up 70%

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
... currently underway for managed funds and superannuation products." Rainmaker found 41% of managed account models are in equities asset sectors, 49% in diversified offerings and 10% in other asset classes such as property, bonds and alternatives.

Pension fund suffers $235bn loss

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2020
... biggest quarterly loss the fund has suffered since 2001, driven largely by its investments in domestic and international equities. It also posted a negative return of 10.71% overall for the quarter as COVID-19 hit stock markets. This is compared to a ...

Mirae drops fees on Asian equities funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2020
Mirae Asset Global Investments has sliced the fees on two Asian equities funds by 20bps each. Mirae Asset Asia Great Consumer Equity Fund and Mirae Asset Asia Sector Leader Equity Fund will go from charging 75bps each in management fee from 95bps, while ...

Mandates from superannuation funds slow

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... significantly from the December quarter's 63 totaling $8.6 billion, new data from Rainmaker Information shows. International equities strategies took the lion's share of mandates awarded by superannuation funds over the period at $1 billion of ...

SG Hiscock, Morgan Stanley launch global equity funds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2020
... firm manages in excess of $10 billion for Australian institutional investors, across investment strategies in global equities, emerging markets equities, global fixed interest, global REITs, unlisted property and unlisted infrastructure," Vanden Boom ...

Eaton Vance wins super fund mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2020
... 90,000 members in the retirement phase. The Parametric affiliate and ACRSF have worked together for the past year on the equities strategy. "We didn't want to wait for the government to impose its 'CIPR' retirement product timeline on us or the rest ...