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Mercer unveils best-performing Aussie equity funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
Mercer has named the top-performing Australian equities funds for the 2019 financial year. Mercer's latest Investment Survey found Martin Currie's Australia Real Income strategy delivered 18.8% in the year to June 2019. BlackRock Equitised Long ...

NAB names new chief executive

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUL 2019
... former Commonwealth Bank executive as its new group chief executive and managing director. Ross McEwan will take over the top job no later than April 2020, the group announced today. McEwan has been chief executive of Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) since ...

Super funds keen on alternatives managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUL 2019
... alternatives-indicating that as this asset class grows so will mandate complexity." Internal management For the period the top five investment managers winning the most mandates by number were: BlackRock, Mesirow, Morgan Stanley IM (MSIM), QIC and Firetrail. ...

ETFs cross $50bn, fixed income leads

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... BetaShares commanded 60% of the net inflows. Adding BlackRock iShares, the three's market share of the net inflows was 80%. Top performing products for the half were BetaShares geared equities products. GEAR returned 45.2% and GGUS returned 41.2%. ...

J.P. Morgan loses custody contract

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... this pie with custody contracts for the likes of AustralianSuper and HESTA. It first toppled NAB Asset Servicing from the top spot in the first half of 2016. Northern Trust was the sixth-largest custodian ($403 billion), and has several public sector ...

Advisers struggle with untapped SMSF market

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
... unmet advice for SMSF trustees, she said. Pension strategies, estate planning and identifying undervalued assets were the top areas SMSF members grappled with. Tax planning, investment strategy and asset protection for share market falls were also difficult ...

ESG options outperform in the short term: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2019
Investment options managed according to socially responsible, ethical or sustainability principles tend to outperform in the short-term, new superannuation research shows. Rainmaker's latest Roundup report, which analysed 139 multi-manager, strategic ...

Charter Hall industrial fund scores top Lonsec rating

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
Charter Hall's Direct Industrial Fund No.4 (DIF4) scored Lonsec's top rating. The independent research house rated DIF4 as Highly Recommended, noting its portfolio was 100% occupied by "high-quality tenants" and was well positioned in terms of future ...

MySuper lacks risk and return correlation: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... hierarchy shows the best-returning MySuper products beat the lowest-performing products by 70%, while volatility differed by 80%. Top-performing funds are also routinely delivering nearly twice the returns of the lowest-performing funds. Rainmaker executive ...

LGIAsuper to stand on its own

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... as a "boutique" fund. "LGIAsuper has a unique and very successful investment philosophy that has seen us performing in the top quartile of similar funds over the last financial year," Farrar said. "This is because we have retained our strong member focus ...