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AUM growth subdued to 2025: Bloomberg

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2019
New research from Bloomberg suggests fee margins of global asset managers will drop 11% over the next six years. Most of the 1950 global asset managers surveyed in the Asset Management Outlook to 2025 provided conservative AUM growth forecasts over ...

Rest launches low-cost indexed options

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2019
... tax) which are: the S&P/ASX300 Accumulation Index, MSCI World ex-Australia ex-Tobacco Net Dividends Reinvested Index, Bloomberg AusBond Composite 0+ Years Index, Citigroup Global Bond Index ex-Australia (hedged to AUD) and Bloomberg AusBond Bank Bill ...

UniSuper awards fixed income mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2019
A Melbourne bond manager won a $180 million mandate from UniSuper as the super fund increased its allocation to fixed income. UniSuper appointed Jamieson Coote Bonds to manage about $180 million in Australian government bonds in November. The mandate ...

Chief economist update: Is there a bear in there?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 17 DEC 2018
... per cent below its August 31 peak, falling 1.6 per cent on the day [14 December]," according to the AFR. According to Bloomberg data, more than half the components of the S&P 500 - 259 companies - are now at least 20 per cent below their 52-week highs ...

And so this is Christmas, another year (almost) over

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... firms it surveyed. Group's predictions range from 2675 to 3100, with a mean estimate of about 2840. Note a recent Bloomberg article said that at 2800, the S&P 500 average estimate of nine strategists it tracked points to not only another year of ...

Chief economist update: Tariff man takes Wall Street down

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2018
With one tweet, US President Donald Trump reversed all of Wall Street's gains... and then some. "....I am a Tariff Man. When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege of doing so. It ...

Why indexing is big business

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2018
... trillion benchmarked. MSCI, which purely operates in equity indexing, has about US$13.9 trillion benchmarked. Conversely, Bloomberg benchmarks US$14.4 trillion of fixed income assets to its indices. Across the board, the majority of strategies are active. ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... attention on ESG and smart beta indices, these own less than 6% of the market combined, Redding says. For an index provider, Bloomberg LP head of portfolio and index sales for Asia Pacific, Norman Tweeboom, says it's increasingly important to show ...

BlackRock strengthens real assets team

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2018
... investment into new power generation in Asia Pacific - or US$3.5 trillion - will flow into renewables by 2040 according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance," the manager said in a statement. "With the move of Charlie Reid to Sydney, BlackRock is poised to ...

Chief economist update: China's slowing fast

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
When the going gets tough, China's authorities get going. Fresh data that showed the Chinese economy slowed to 6.5% in the year to the September quarter shouldn't have generated big concerns - despite headlines that it is the slowest growth ...