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Best performing managed funds revealed

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2020
... were: Australian Unity Platypus Australian Equities (three-year return of 13.9% per year), Bennelong Australian Equities Fund (12.2%), Bennelong Concentrated Australian Equities (11.6%), Greencape Broadcap Fund (11.1%) and the Hyperion Australian Growth ...

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 ...

Franklin Templeton cuts fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2020
Franklin Templeton will drop the fees on eight funds from 2bps to 23bps per year, effective July 1. The steepest fee cut is on the $443 million Franklin Global Growth Fund which will go from charging 1.13% per year in management costs to 0.90%. Two ...

Best Australian equities funds, with risk considered

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... p.a. and Sharpe and Omega Ratios of -0.2%. In the high performance category, Australian Unity Platypus Australian Equities Fund had the best annualised return (8.7%) and Sharpe Ratio (0.4) and Omega Ratio (1.6). Lazard's Defensive Australian Equity ...

Global boutique reduces fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... GQG Partners Global Equity Fund and the GQG Partners Emerging Markets Equity Fund. Management fees for the global equities fund has been reduced from 0.90% to 0.75%, and management fees for the emerging markets equities fund has going from 1.10% to 0.96%. ...

Best equities funds to May end

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
New Morningstar data names the equities funds that tallied up the highest returns in the 12-months ending May 31, with Baillie Gifford, Nikko and Perpetual funds among the winners. Baillie Gifford funds distributed by Colonial First State locally have ...

BetaShares to list hedged versions of global stocks ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
BetaShares today listed a currency-hedged version of its Global Quality Leaders ETF and will launch similar versions of two other ETFs in the coming weeks, as local investors' appetite for currency hedging grows. The BetaShares Global Quality Leaders ...

State Street rejigs international equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
State Street has relaunched an international equities fund for local investors looking for a climate change and ESG focused portfolio, with a new benchmark. The State Street Climate ESG International builds on a fund launched in 2016, which initially ...

Fund managers adapt to market pain

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Aussie equities fund managers steadily improved in performance relative to benchmark from January to March, according to an updated SPIVA Australia Scorecard from S&P. In January, only 21.6% of Australian equities (general category) funds beat the benchmarks ...

Magellan remains cautious, for now

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Sitting on a significant amount of liquidity, Magellan is waiting for a few dominoes to fall before it pulls the trigger and deploys cash from its global and high conviction funds. Having increased the cash balances across both its high conviction and ...