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Cooper Investors opens door to retail

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2017
... manager Cooper Investors is ready for the retail market. Lonsec has rated both the Cooper Investors Global Equities Fund (Hedged) and Cooper Investors Global Equities Fund (Unhedged) as "investment grade". Both products are currently available on the ...

Property overpowers asset class returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2017
... posting flat returns in 2016, according to the annual report conducted by Russell Investments and the ASX. Global bonds (hedged) generated gross returns of 7.4% per annum, followed by Australian bonds at 6.1%. Australian equities meanwhile, fell further ...

Currency and managing volatility: Financial Standard spot poll

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 26 JUN 2017
... investor base through its Dynamic Strategic Hedging programme (DSH). Rather than choosing the fund to be unhedged or fully hedged, SSGA adjusts the hedge ratio for each currency in the portfolio according to its medium to long-term assessment of that ...

Retail funds closing in on return gap

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUN 2017
... This brings the annual return to April 2017 to 11.1%. On an annual basis, Australian equities contributed a 17.8% return, hedged international equities contributed 18.2% and unhedged international equities returned 17.6%. Global infrastructure contributed ...

Henry Morgan creates new global LIC

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2017
... most profitable listed opportunities in the USA, Europe, the UK, Asia and Australia. The fund will also be dynamically hedged for currency exposure and seek to profit from the investment manager's experience," McAuliffe said. "The fund may go long or ...

Vanguard reduces fees, revises multi-asset strategy

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 MAY 2017
... seek to account for Australia's more concentrated sharemarket. The multi-asset funds will also have a portion of currency-hedged global shares, which will help us manage currency risk over short-to-medium timeframes," Johnson said. "Across the entire ...

VanEck partners to launch ETF model portfolios

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 8 MAY 2017
... VanEck Vectors AUstralian Property ETF, SPDR Dow Jones Global Real Estate ETF, VanEck Vectors FTSE Global Infrastructure (Hedged) ETF, iShares Composite Bond Index ETF and Vanguard International Fixed Index (Hedged) ETF. The individual weightings of ...

Top 10 investment stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... efforts. The industry super fund closed its Australian Fixed Interest, International Fixed Interest and International Shares (Hedged) investment options on 28 January 2016. The two fixed interest options were replaced by the Diversified Fixed Interest ...

Watermark closes IPO for market neutral LIC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 13 DEC 2016
... volatility, and reduced equity market risk. WGF's strategy hedges out market and sector risks. "Currency exposures are also hedged. This means market neutral funds such as WGF can still rise during volatile markets." Trading on the ASX is expected to ...

Listed infrastructure has winners and losers

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2016
... scale. There was a return range of more than 20 percentage points between the best and worst performers within both the hedged and unhedged groups. For hedged listed infrastructure funds, the average return over one year was 2%, with a maximum return ...