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Super funds overlook digital engagement

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
... Survey conducted by SS&C Technologies Holdings found that the younger cohort of the 18 to 70-year-olds canvassed held "neutral to negative feelings" about their provider. This suggests that funds need to better engage their members at an earlier age ...

Morningstar's conviction weakened on BlackRock fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
Morningstar has dropped its rating for BlackRock's Concentrated Industrial Share Fund to neutral. The fund's lead portfolio manager Charles Lanchester and team have added a total return portfolio and a long-short offering to the fund, but Morningstar ...

RBA measures not solely due to COVID: Treasury

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2020
... Secretary Steven Kennedy said. Speaking to Australian Business Economists for a post-budget briefing, Kennedy said the neutral or natural interest has been steadily falling globally over the past 40 years. "Lower neutral interest rates mean there is ...

AustralianSuper ratings slide at Morningstar

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2020
... framework Morningstar switched to a new rating methodology on 1 November 2019 for its analyst ratings (gold, silver, bronze, neutral or negative) which represent the analyst's conviction on the fund's potential to outperform its peers. As a part ...

Sunsuper cops rating downgrades

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
... a confident view in its prospects." Morningstar revised its methodology in November 2019 for its gold, silver, bronze, neutral or negative analyst ratings. Now Morningstar puts greater emphasis on fees and its existing five-pillar rating process (people ...

LaSalle joins 2050 club

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2020
LaSalle Investment Management is the most recent company to pledge to go carbon neutral by 2050, following in the footsteps of many super funds and investment firms. LaSalle said it has been working across its managed portfolio to improve the sustainability ...

New boutique strikes partnership

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2020
... Dalton Street Capital as its first client. Dalton has since taken over the management of Watermark's $36 million market neutral fund.

Sunsuper adds long/short to Aussie equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... The fund plans to look at long/short's utility in global equities allocations in the future, and already uses market neutral strategies in its alternatives portfolio. One value add for Sunsuper in implementing the long/short strategy is, it can use ...

Pension funds sue Allianz Global Investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... protection during a market downturn. However, the lawyers' analysis found Allianz deviated dramatically from this market-neutral strategy and lacked any meaningful protection against a downturn. Once the funds began incurring losses in February 2020 ...

Watermark LIC seeks restructure

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... February 2021 as the indicative implementation date. Watermark earlier this month, handed over its $36 million market neutral fund to Dalton Street Capital (to be effective around October 16) after running it for about eight years.