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Fund manager creates lead distribution role

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2021
... Mercer, Russell Investments and MLC. Paradice has local and international equity strategies, one of which is in emerging markets. The emerging markets equities team, which is based in San Francisco and established two years ago, is co-managed by Edward ...

Fidelity portfolio manager resigns

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 APR 2021
The lead portfolio manager for Fidelity's top-performing $724 million emerging markets fund has resigned. Alex Duffy will leave the role on May 28. Replacing Duffy, Fidelity has appointed Singapore-based Amit Goel as the lead portfolio manager and London-based ...

Chief economist update: Copper 10,000

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... prompted the re-imposition of social restrictions and lockdowns, the slow pace of vaccinations especially among emerging markets, the effectiveness of the vaccines against variants of the virus and growing concerns over its side effects (blot clots). ...

Raiz expands to SMSF market

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAR 2021
... Russell Australian Responsible Investment, Global Sustainability Leaders ETF, iShares Global 100, Vanguard FTSE Emerging Markets Shares, and iShares Global Healthcare. "Offering a custom portfolio gives our growing client base greater choice. As we discovered ...

REITs extend performance struggles

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
... delivered a mixed bag of returns in the month to January 2021. Listed property lost 4% over the month, while emerging markets came out on top with 3.7%. Returns in the combined property category in the three years to January 2021 topped 13.3% p.a. for ...

No more easy 6% returns: Fidelity

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 MAR 2021
... "The risk-free rate acts as an anchor for risk premia," Doyle said. "We have 6-7% total returns assumptions for emerging markets equities in our long-term capital market assumptions but obviously you take a lot of risk in order to harvest those returns." ...

Montgomery launches two global strategies

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2021
... its benchmark MSCI ACWI Net Total Return Index returned 10.77% p.a. Around June 2021, the Polen Capital Global Emerging Markets Growth Fund will launch. This new fund invests in a concentrated portfolio of emerging markets businesses. Montgomery will ...

Colonial Super Retirement Fund rejigs managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
... shares, Pendal and MFS's funds will change to multi-manager funds among other changes. In Asian equities, RBC Emerging Markets is taking the place of FirstChoice Wholesale Asian Fund. Janus Henderson Global Natural Resources will change to multi-manager ...

Best global equities funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAR 2021
... passive strategies in the asset class. They were divided into three groups: active core, high performance, and emerging markets. It ranked strategies by headline returns (over a three-year period ending December 2020), and also by their combined risk ...

Fund manager hires distribution director

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 23 FEB 2021
... market since first launching here in 2018, and we continue to see strong interest in our global equities and emerging markets capabilities which have performed strongly despite the turmoil of markets in 2020," he said. Florida-based GQG has $77.7 billion ...