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Colonial First State closes global fund

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... manager's website, it "seeks to exploit both the fundamental mispricings and the mispricing of risk in the cross section of equities through our proprietary multi-factor stock selection process". The strategy shorted weak high-beta stocks and bought ...

Is it really as bad as it seems?

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... that having a long-term time horizon can have." Doyle said this also shows that Australians are used to investing in equities as an asset class and know about the high volatility that goes along with it. So, although Australians are concerned about a ...

Northern Trust touts new ESG tool to instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... ESG scores and exposures in the investment portfolio. Northern Trust is starting with listed asset classes including equities and corporate bonds (through a partnership with IdealRatings) but will over time expand to other asset classes. "In future ...

Best MySuper products revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... returns, and was a poor indicator of what a product would return. When it came to asset allocation, MySuper products favour equities with the vast majority holding 50% or more of assets in equities. Industry funds showed a slight bent towards property ...

Global manager reduces fees on flagship fund

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... years, and was recently awarded a gold rating from Morningstar, the firm said. As of March 17, T. Rowe Price's global equities fund was invested in 150 stocks across 30 countries.

Aussie equities winners, losers revealed

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
... gold-rated strategies Greencape High Conviction and Greencape Broadcap; silver-rated strategies Bennelong Australian Equities and Hyperion Australian Growth Companies; and bronze-rated Platypus Australian Equities. "These strategies are notable owing ...

BNY Mellon IM boutique heads for ASX mFunds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... marketplace, in a first for BNY Mellon's boutique partners. The Insight Diversified Inflation Plus Fund invests across equities, bonds, real assets and total return strategies, targeting long-term returns of 5% p.a. above inflation over a rolling ...

BlackRock turns optimistic on credit

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... to 12 month tactical views on major global asset classes (in USD terms) are now neutral for all global asset classes (equities, government bonds and cash) except credit, which it upgraded in April. "We are mostly sticking to benchmark holdings on an ...

COVID-19 ETP market winners, losers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... during the quarter to March's COVID-19 induced volatility. March 2020 was characterised by sharp falls and rises in equities as investors grappled with uncertainty about what COVID-19 would mean for the economy. The ASX Monthly Investment Products ...

Frontier Advisors makes key appointments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... and in treasury management before moving to Singapore to work as a macro trader for Barcap. Simone Gavin will join the equities team at Frontier as a senior consultant. She previously worked at Frontier as an analyst in 2005. More recently, Gavin has ...