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BTFG to boost managed account capability

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
... recorded 250% growth in funds under administration on its managed account solutions available via Panorama. Its number of active clients has also increased by 195%, the group said. This was due, in part, to the launch of seven new separately managed ...

Super funds cut exposures to banks

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2018
Not-for-profit superannuation funds have an average of 3% less exposure to bank stocks in their equities portfolios than last year, according to recent Rainmaker research. These funds still have a large exposure to bank stocks, owning about $30 billion ...

NZ Super Fund delivers 12.4pct, braces for future

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... weighted towards growth assets such as shares, with many markets at or above fair value, we have lowered the amount of active risk being taken. This is a measure of how different the fund's actual portfolio is from the passive Reference Portfolio - they ...

Fidelity cuts management fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
... Fidelity's Global Equities Fund to 1.04%. The Fidelity Global Emerging Markets Fund has achieved 1.15% of above-benchmark active returns since its December 2013 inception to August end. It holds 30 to 50 stocks and is managed by Alex Duffy. The Fidelity ...

Industry fund members more satisfied

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2018
Despite the flak the superannuation industry has received from the Royal Commission, industry fund members are more satisfied with their fund than retail members. This is according to a survey of 50,000 participants conducted Roy Morgan, which pitted ...

BlackRock outlines ETF plans for Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... Fellow top-10 ETF issuer BetaShares joined forces with Legg Mason to launch actively managed funds. Yet, the take up of active ETFs has been slow. In the 13 years since the first actively managed ETF started trading on the ASX, only a total of 12 products ...

Pinnacle launches new affiliate

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... implementation. He joined Schroders in 2004 and left in June this year. During his time at Schroders, he helped launch GROW, an active multi asset ETF listed on the ASX. Wanis commented: "I am thrilled to be establishing a new investment firm with such ...

MSCI launches tobacco exclusion indexes

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... strategy easier to implement, and keeps the cost of adoption low, reducing hurdles to removing tobacco for both passive and active portfolios," Yang said. "There is growing demand for exclusionary indexes globally, including interest among the world's ...

Aussie fund managers face machine learning challenges

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
... learning over the next 12 months. Increased competition, intense fee pressure and the need for differentiation is driving active, passive, quantitative, fundamental, traditional and alternative managers to find ways to leverage machine learning to capture ...

DNR Capital tries small caps on for size

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2018
... this strategy with a significant advantage when identifying globally competitive emerging companies for inclusion in an active, high concentration portfolio of 20-45 stocks." Twidale - who will co-manage the portfolio alongside DNR veteran Mark Sedawie ...