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Former industry fund CIO leaves Vanguard after seven months

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
... the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Super Investment Conference in September, McLaughlin said the ongoing debate between active and index managers tend to overshadow some essential tenets of portfolio construction. Speaking on behalf ...

Surefire Melbourne Cup bet

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... communication (2.9%), furnishings, household equipment and services (0.8%) and food and non-alcoholic beverages (0.7%). We can debate the whys and wherefores of the headline inflation rate but the core inflation measures - trimmed mean, unchanged at ...

Vanguard aims to defuse the active debate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2017
... the selected active manager, the level of active risk and an investor's risk tolerance. "We see active-passive not as a debate, but as an asset allocation decision, and this framework gives investors a clear process to help them determine the active ...

Fidelity portfolio manager steps down

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017
... strategy," Fidelity said. This news follows Fidelity making significant changes to its global fee regime in response to ongoing debate concerning the value of active management. Describing the new fee model as a "fundamental change in how it charges ...

We cannot underestimate humans: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... what caused Trump, Brexit and Macron?" Sicilia said. He explained political correctness is one area that stifles public debate and it becomes a place for populists to thrive. "We've lost the ability to engage in debate with intention to persuade," he ...

Active debate triggers Fidelity fee overhaul

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2017
Fidelity made significant changes to its global fee regime in response to ongoing debate concerning the value of active management. Describing the new fee model as a "fundamental change in how it charges for its services," Fidelity debuted its reduced ...

SPIVA again scores active versus passive debate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... over the 12 months to 30 June 2017. Describing itself as the "de facto scorekeeper of the ongoing active versus passive debate" since 2002, S&P said this year's scorecard tracked 731 Australian equity funds (across the large, mid and small cap and A-REIT ...

A matter of assumptions

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 26 SEP 2017
... balance of risks for the Australian economy roughly balanced, it decided to keep policy settings this month. But there's no debate with regards to September or October, November and December 2017. The question is what would the RBA do next year? We're ...

Revisiting the active versus passive cage fight

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... McLaughlin. McLaughlin spoke at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Super Investment Conference, describing the debate as a "mug's game that wasn't going to get resolved in 50 minutes on the Gold Coast." She noted that while she was representing ...

Infradebt attracts super fund investment

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... says will allow Future Super to support a range of renewable energy and social infrastructure projects. "There's been much debate of late about the capacity of Australia's superannuation sector to fund nation-building infrastructure projects," Sheikh ...