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State Street fund purges tobacco, weapons

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
State Street's international equities trust, which tracks MSCI World ex Australia, is set to exclude tobacco and controversial weapons. It will make the changes from July 1, for both the hedged and unhedged versions of the State Street International ...

Pengana eyes fully franked dividend

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
Pengana is trying to draw investors into one of its international equities vehicles by amending its investment mandate with an objective to fully frank future dividends. Pengana International Equities (ASX:PIA) said it has implemented a change in the ...

Investors pile into companies on life support

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2020
... classes is the best option," he said. "Having exposure to fixed income (treasuries etc), and domestic and international equities reduces the risk of stock specific and sector risks," he said.

COVID-19 ETP market winners, losers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... with Australian listed property performing the worst, losing 34%. Australian equities were down 21% and international equities down 13% (currency hedged). "Investors in the ETP market traded harder than they ever had before," Rainmaker head of investment ...

Ethical fund manager wears $520m hit

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
... Rainmaker, around 21% of the $3.87 billion Australian Ethical managed as at December 2019 was invested in international equities. Specifically, the firm lost about $290 million from its superannuation arm and about $230 from its manager fund business ...

Aberdeen Standard global equities funds downgraded

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2020
International equities funds offered by Aberdeen Standard Investments in the local market have been downgraded to neutral at Morningstar on the back of a style drift. In January ASI announced its head of equities Stephen Docherty would leave the firm ...

Plenty still want in on ETPs: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2020
... popular than other offerings though, with $11 million in net inflows. Investors demonstrated more caution in international equities, with outflows in February of $56 million. "The most notable action was the repositioning of portfolios away from currency ...

BetaShares swaps out unlisted fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2020
... externally managed and invested in global shares. BetaShares has decided to replace the fund with a new international equities fund which currently manages mostly in-house and has been running for about a month, according to BetaShares chief executive ...

Warakirri appoints exclusive manager for equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2020
... manage Warakirri Asset Management's equities strategies ($300 million in Aussie equities, $75 million in international equities) as the sole manager under a new strategic partnership. The two also have plans to introduce emerging market equities funds. ...

HUB24 hires managed portfolios lead

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... built with what Milliman described as "best-of-breed, low-cost ETFs" which invest across Australian and international equities and fixed income, property, and cash, with risk protection overlays built-in to each managed account portfolio to "dampen volatility ...