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Vanguard adds to Aussie executive lineup

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... member of Vanguard Australia's executive team during her three years in Australia and we wish her the very best as she returns to the United States and embarks on her new challenge in the group responsible for Vanguard's cloud-based advice product ...

Volatility wreaks havoc with heat map measures

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... 2019 of each MySuper fund showed strong, positive correlations between the growth/defensive ratios of funds and their returns. When the heat maps were released late last year, funds underperforming according to that metric were slapped with a yellow ...

VanEck makes case for equal weight investing

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... benchmark market capitalisation index each time," VanEck said. "This was due to the skewed distribution of individual stock returns, favouring the smaller stocks that give rise to outperformance. "Equal weighting results in less exposure to larger companies ...

Hedge funds in the green in May

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... hedge funds have posted another month in the green, with roughly one fourth of fund strategies now reporting positive returns for the year. Hedge funds around the globe returned 2.54% on average in May, with nearly a quarter posting average returns of ...

Pessimism strikes Australia, US optimistic

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... professionals, including investment advisers, wealth managers, broker/dealers, and financial advisers, expect US stock returns to climb back from steep losses to finish the year down just 3.6%. Despite seeing losses as high as -34% within the first few ...

ASIC warns funds to clean up adverts

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... the COVID-19 pandemic. The three areas it was seriously concerned about were: funds talking up one aspect (like higher returns) while comparing themselves to others without giving a balanced indication of key differences and risks. ASIC was also concerned ...

The secret to neutralising sequencing risk

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... director Tom Rachcoff said. "They need to pay greater attention to the risk of permanent capital loss and the sequence of returns while still attempting to maximise return." He pointed to the decade long bull-market that preceded the COVID-19 crash ...

Fidelity launches sustainable fund

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... investment in a relatively unexplored sector. The Fidelity Sustainable Water and Waste Fund will deliver risk adjusted returns across multiple cycles by investing in companies with exposure to the water and waste management sectors, including those that ...

New equity partners at Tribeca unit

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... based on a core long/short strategy in equities, credit and commodities. The unlisted version of the reported -14.08% as returns in January coronavirus pushed down the energy markets, and the fund's short on the ASX backfired. Monthly reports for ...

Global boutique reduces fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2020
... overriding objective is to compound our clients' assets over the long term; fees can make a meaningful impact on long term returns. "We believe that the highest quality of management does not need to correlate with the highest level of fees." GQG Partners ...