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BetaShares launches new active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2019
BetaShares and Legg Mason have launched a new active ETF that will invest in emerging markets equities. Martin Currie, a Legg Mason affiliate, will manage the new exchange-traded fund, called the BetaShares Legg Mason Emerging Markets Fund (managed ...

Fund manager hires new institutional head

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2019
... keen to deepen its existing relationships and develop other relationships with its expanded investment capabilities in active dividend income, global small caps and global infrastructure, he added. "Her technical expertise will help build our momentum ...

SEC adopts retail investor protection package

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
The US Securities and Exchange Commission has adopted a package of fiduciary rules to protect retail investors from financial advisers who put their self-interests first. Under the new rules called Regulation Best Interest and Form CRS Relationship ...

PYSP puts SMSFs at risk

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUN 2019
As July 1 approaches, some self-managed superannuation fund members are scrambling to ensure life insurance policies held through an APRA-regulated fund aren't suddenly cancelled. With the Government's Protecting Your Super Package about to kick in ...

J.P. Morgan cuts management fees

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
J.P. Morgan Asset Management Australia has slashed management fees on all bond funds by nearly a third. From 1 June 2019, management fees for the following bond funds have been reduced: JPMorgan Global Strategic Bond Fund - from 0.60% to 0.40%; JPMorgan ...

Ethical funds not ambitious enough: Future Super

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2019
... invested in fossil fuel companies while claiming to impact the corporate behaviour of those companies positively by being active investors. "It's not true that through corporate engagement you can turn a fossil fuel company into an environmentally ...

New tax-effective Aussie shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... a third-party portfolio optimiser and has built proprietary software around it. The strategy is classified as low risk active with a tracking error of 1-2% p.a., the firm said.

Advisers wary of unlisted assets: Sunsuper

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... "Returns did not change as a result of RG97 disclosure guidelines." He explained that unlisted assets always require an active investing approach. The fund's team was then asked why it offers an indexed, balanced option. Parker replied: "We don't think ...

Wealth firm backs new Perennial fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... successfully negotiating deals and driving a private to public premium," Bornstein said. In May, Perennial launched an active ETF that invests in small caps with an ESG strategy.

Banks sluggish on Indigenous financial inclusion

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 MAY 2019
Indigenous Australians are being let down by financial institutions' failure to provide access to basic banking services and recognise different cultural attitudes towards money, a new report from the First Nations Foundation reveals. Of the 620 ...