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First State Super enters global equities partnership

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 OCT 2019
... equities and head of systematic strategies Vis Nayar added. "Client customisation and partnerships run at the core of our active systematic investment offering, leveraging our experienced research and portfolio management teams and proprietary resources," ...

Fidelity wholesale director departs

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2019
Fidelity International is hunting for a new head of wholesale sales for its Australian business after the incumbent left. Andrew Mathie finished up at Fidelity in late August, after two years with the company. Mathie worked directly with Fidelity managing ...

Advice associations slammed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2019
... adviser exodus already seen this year. Rainmaker analysis of the ASIC Financial Adviser Register shows there is now 25,522 active advisers in Australia as of today. At its peak, in January this year, there were 28,863. "The advice landscape is experiencing ...

First Sentier launches funds, picks new RE

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2019
First Sentier Investors has launched its inaugural batch of funds and has chosen a new responsible entity, after completing the sale from CBA. The firm will use Perpetual's The Trust Company as its new responsible entity for the first time with ...

Aussie bond fund added to Zenith model portfolio

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2019
... rating category for a number of years. "We believe [the fund] is well positioned to generate returns through a range of active strategies including sector rotation, credit selection and, to a lesser extent, interest-rate and yield curve positioning," ...

Get on top of non-financial risk: ASIC

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2019
A new ASIC report reveals company boards need to apply more focus and urgency to non-financial risk. ASIC's Director and officer oversight of non-financial risk report shows company management operates outside of board-approved risk appetites for ...

Glitch hits ASX-listed managed funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
About 16 ASX-listed managed funds using internal market making were affected by a glitch in calculating their iNAV yesterday, Financial Standard understands. Issuers affected include Platinum Asset Management and Schroders. Quoted managed funds are ...

Impact investing difficult to measure

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 1 OCT 2019
... measure the influence of impact investments. The report found that impact measurement practices vary widely. Only 50% of active impact investors use a measurement framework. Of that 50%, 9% use a third-party framework, 15% use their own proprietary framework ...

Milestone ETF Rule passed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2019
... applicable to most unit trusts; leveraged or inverse ETFs; those structured as a share class of a multi-class fund; or active ETFs. To date, ETFs in the US have been regulated in the same way as mutual funds and were offered exemptive relief by the SEC ...

Aussie active managers underperform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
Rainmaker research revealed that over the three years to June 2019 the median managers in all active investment categories underperformed their respective benchmark returns. The research looked at active core, high performance and small companies funds. ...