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Vanguard fund hits US$1trn

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2020
... unprecedented feat in funds management. The Vanguard Total Stock Market Index Fund has been around since 1992 and follows a passive style of investing, with turnover rate limited to about 4%. "We take very seriously our responsibility as stewards of ...

Cbus, Media Super merger progresses

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 DEC 2020
... Diversified Shares; Emerging Markets Shares; Global Listed Infrastructure; Global Listed Property; Hedged International Shares; Passive Australian Shares; Passive International Shares and SmartPath will close. Media Super said the decision to close the ...

Superhero to launch super fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2020
... investment menu of cash, local and international equities, ETFs and so forth, but must have a minimum 25% of assets in passive strategies. In establishing the fund, Winters said he's come across investors who don't have a lot of disposable income ...

Pension plan sued for expensive, active strategy

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... alleges a major pension plan exposed members to risky, expensive actively-managed investments instead of allocating to safer passive options. The complaint, filed against Coca-Cola Consolidated by its former employees and several law firms, alleges that ...

Aware Super cuts carbon emissions by 40%

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
... fund's goal of net zero emissions by 2050 by excluding the highest carbon emitters. By creating the benchmarks, Aware's passive and systematic investment managers can implement their strategies in line with lower carbon emissions. The benchmarks were ...

Vanguard, Fidelity, BetaShares rank low on ESG: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2020
... that run afoul of ethical and environmental standards," Morningstar said. "In practice, the screens of Vanguard's ESG passive strategies do not differentiate the funds from their broader universes as much as peers that explicitly integrate ESG criteria ...

AustralianSuper net-zero promise flawed: MarketForces

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 NOV 2020
... medium-term decarbonisation targets," MarketForces said, which also took note of the fund confirming it has no active (but still passive) investments in thermal coal companies. Eight of the largest 40 super funds now exclude investment in thermal coal ...

Channel Capital in management buyout

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2020
... The Sydney multi-boutique is bidding farewell to its minority equity partner Highbury Partnership, as it enlists a new passive investor to bring ownership back to the management. Highbury invested about $15 million in Channel Capital in 2017 when the ...

Insight Investment Australia grows team

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2020
... clients on currency and equity risk management solutions. Ereira spent 15 years at Principal Global Investors as head of passive currency and chief dealer, before moving on to found Cerca FX Consulting. In between the two positions he spent a year in ...

New super benchmarking flawed: Rice Warner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2020
... mitigate the risks of underperformance against a nominated benchmark." Rice Warner predicted many funds will then become passive on Australian shares to an extent that is not optimal. "Surviving funds will be large and many won't be able to deviate much ...