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Investors sharpen watch on RMBS

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... residential mortgage-backed security pool is ripe for picking by fixed income and debt managers, challenges surround the asset class. Australian property prices are cooling, households have racked up record levels of debt, the central bank may be crawling ...

Balanced portfolios better than chasing winners: Research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2018
... investors with long-term investment goals should seek diversification in their portfolios instead of relying on a singular asset class. According to the 2018 Russell Investments/ASX long-term investing report, asset class performances change so frequently ...

Prominent executive links with VFMC board

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
... global markets gained from experience at Link Administration Holdings and Frontier Advisors, will help us grow our world class capital and risk platforms," Moshal said. Separately, Australia Post Superannuation Scheme's head of investments Ezinne ...

Parametric expands alternative risk premia offering

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... Aked said the team studied three decades of data on value, carry and momentum, to pick factor definitions for each asset class. "Our experience of managing smart beta strategies for over a decade has reinforced the importance of robustness and implementation ...

Boutique asset managers co-appoint distribution head

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 JUN 2018
Two boutique asset managers jointly appointed a new head of distribution for the Australian market. Katana Asset Management has about $60 million split between a listed investment company and an unlisted unit trust, while Insync Funds Management has ...

Cbus aims to reduce costs through internalisation

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUN 2018
... with an increased appetite for patient, longer term project financing and investments extending beyond traditional asset class boundaries. "The emerging capacity challenges facing the construction industry in Australia also set the stage for superannuation ...

Class streamlines investment solution

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2018
Class has made a new functionality available to financial planners to directly access specific information about investments. Under Class' partnership with data and analytics provider Simply Wall St, investors and financial planners can use the functionality ...

Fidante eyes actively managed ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
The $57 billion multi-boutique asset manager will launch a series of actively managed exchange-traded funds, starting with an actively managed fixed income ETF that it says will be the first of its kind in the Australian market. The ActiveX series is ...

Government opens consultation for amended CCIV regime

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2018
... financial markets using a well-recognised corporate structure vehicle - creating access to Asia's expanding middle and upper class." The Financial Services Council has long supported the introduction of this legislation. At the FSC's 2016 Leaders ...

China A-shares to shake up EM funds

KARREN VERGARA AND DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2018
The recent inclusion of 226 China A-shares to several MSCI indexes is opening a floodgate of foreign capital to the Chinese equity market and at the very least disrupting the $2.6 trillion which tracks the MSCI Emerging Markets Index. Phased in over ...