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US manager eyes Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 12 NOV 2020
A fund distribution business co-founded by Schroders' former head of institutional sales has signed on a US-based global equities manager looking to tap into the Australian market. Axius Partners will distribute Polen Capital's high-conviction global ...

Active managers grapple with EM

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
New Rainmaker research shows just 30% of actively-managed emerging-market funds delivered on their promise in the last three years. The latest Rainmaker Wholesale managed funds performance report looked at 22 products with $6.5 billion of assets over ...

Disruption not sustainable: Schroders

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2020
Stocks that have the ability to disrupt certain sectors like technology are likely to be disrupted themselves, according to Schroders. Speaking at the Morningstar Investment Conference, Schroders head of Australian equities Martin Conlon said sectors ...

Fund manager hires client experience lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2020
A $2.6 trillion ($1.9tn) global fund manager has hired a sales and marketing expert to a newly created role. Capital Group named James Cardew as its new head of marketing and client experience for Asia and Europe, responsible for overseeing institutional ...

Integrity Life raises $43m

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
Institutional fund managers have pumped $43 million into life insurance startup Integrity Life to help it expand and build out its digital offering. The majority of the capital came from Schroders Investment Management based in Switzerland, Leadenhall ...

Real opportunity for super funds in private assets: Schroders

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2020
While COVID-19 may have changed the shape of Australian investing, Schroders alternatives director Claire Smith believes there is plenty of opportunity in the private asset market. Smith, speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees ...

Boutique launches Aussie equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2020
A Brisbane Aussie equities boutique has launched an income-focussed strategy as an unlisted managed trust, after running it as a separately managed portfolio for 13 years. DNR Capital's Australian Equities Fund is managed by DNR's chief investment ...

OpenInvest names chair

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2020
Melbourne-based fintech OpenInvest has appointed a veteran board member and former NAB executive as chair. Spiro Pappas has over 30 years' experience in financial services and is currently chair of Splitit, Atlas Iron Limited and Cognian Technologies ...

Morningstar upgrades four, downgrades 10

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
Following a qualitative review of 69 Australian fixed-interest strategies, ratings house Morningstar has made 15 changes; including upgrades, downgrades, and dropping its coverage of one strategy. The changes are attributable to Morningstar's revised ...

Investor expectations pie in the sky: Schroders

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2020
Australian investors have unrealistic investment return expectations in relation to their portfolio construction and need to adopt a different strategy to achieve expected returns, according to a new survey from Schroders. The Schroders Global Investor ...