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AMP Capital awards historic $17bn passive mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 APR 2017
... capability UBS is able to offer our clients tailor investment solutions to meet their passive, smart beta, and active management needs," UBS concluded. AMP Capital will be using its new ethical investment screen across the mandate suite. The ESG framework ...

Morningstar downgrades Franklin Templeton parent rating

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 APR 2017
... years." Morningstar added: "Franklin's recent struggles highlight, albeit to an extreme, the challenges facing active management. Between mid-2014 and early 2016, the firm's AUM fell by more than one fifth as investors increasingly opted for passive ...

Insync appoints portfolio manager

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... to ours of investing in high-quality businesses that are benefiting from global megatrends, combined with the active management of downside risk," Kotecha said. The Global Titans fund aims to deliver a return of 2% over cash annually and to outperform ...

Legg Mason bond funds receive Zenith tick

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAR 2017
... rate environment, about the capacity for bonds to generate income and capture capital appreciation, and the active management underpinning all three funds aims to achieve these two goals." Zenith praised the Western Asset Global Bond Fund for its "hub ...

Folkestone winds up fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAR 2017
... received an internal rate of return of 14.5% per annum since inception of the Fund and validates Folkestone's active management of its unlisted funds."

Merger creates active management behemoth

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAR 2017
... merger statement said the proposal "reinforces both Standard Life's and Aberdeen's long-standing commitment to active management, underpinned by fundamental research, with both global reach and local depth of resources." The scale provided by the merger ...

2017 to usher in stock-picker renaissance

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 6 MAR 2017
... turn away from yield in pursuit of growth. Speaking to Financial Standard in Sydney, Wellso said that bottom-up active management had a rough year in 2016 because "there was such a big demand for yield. That's what people were after: bond proxies, essentially. ...

Qualitas expands with senior appointment

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 MAR 2017
... focus on the 'value-add' sector of the market; acquiring existing assets with the potential to add value through active management, refurbishment or change of use. Qualitas managing director principal investments Mark Fischer said the value-add space ...

Don't follow consensus: Baur

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2017
... has become paramount, and the move toward passive investment that we see today may not be the right trend and active management may be where we find the returns."

SQM backs active Indian equity fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 23 JAN 2017
... wholesale investors are currently under-invested in this global giant." "The key to success in Indian equities is active management, given it's a very inefficient market. We have a robust investment process and structure to capitalise on this opportunity," ...