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Continuum sees value as active managers scrape past benchmark

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
Continuum Capital Management has value opportunities in its short-term sights after Mercer confirmed its aggressive Australian shares strategy as the best performing long only fund last financial year. The Australian share market posted an overall return ...

Advisers turn from managed funds to ETFs: BetaShares

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... investor would be $82,000 better off if management fees were 0.39 per cent," Corbett said. "The underperformance of active managers across common indices also highlights the role of fees," he said. At the launch, figures sourced from S&P showed more ...

Russell funds get stars

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... provide an enhanced level of income and total returns in line with its benchmark. The fund currently employs two active managers, Perennial Value Management and Ankura Capital, as well as investing in the Russell High Dividend Australian Shares ETF. ...

Dissident investors could prompt REIT revival

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUN 2011
... and potential corporate M&A can drive the sector in the short term. "We believe that it will show the mettle of active managers that understand what the real value of stock is rather than just what they're told their position should be via a benchmark," ...

Macquarie top mandate catchers

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... passive managers to get trading costs down, he said. "Passive managers are typically better at implementation than active managers," he said. Financial Standard is part of the Rainmaker Group.

UniSuper second global tech mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2011
... for quite some time, particularly in determining how it complimented the existing portfolio, assessing whether active managers could deliver sustainable outperformance, and found that the structural characteristics of the industry supported this. "We ...

Zenith releases Aus Equity large cap review

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
... Fund Manager and the Australian share market, there are reasons to be optimistic...With the historical ability of Active Managers on Zenith's recommended list to outperform and the future should be more promising," said Steven Tang, Analyst, Zenith I ...

Titanium challenges rating

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... founded on a theoretical assumption that the market is inherently rational. This differs from the view of most active managers; indeed for many it is the market's putative lack of rationality that justifies pursuing an active investment style at all," ...

Core and satellite approach not bulletproof: study

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
... their high volatility counterpart 85 percent of the time. Greg Vaughan, chief executive of Ankura, said that while active managers do tend to be correlated, and increasing the number of managers does reduce variability, that doesn't necessarily mean ...

Small caps and Asia on Auscoal radar

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2009
... international small cap stocks and Asia, as increased cross-sectional volatility opens the door for the fund's active managers to add alpha to their returns. "The economic downturn post the GFC has highlighted the resilience of the Asian ex-Japan economies ...