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EM winners, losers emerge in COVID-19 struggle

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2020
... laggards has been India, which has been hindered by inefficiencies in transmitting policy to its 28 states." A fundamental research approach is crucial to identifying potential winners and losers as the world shifts towards recovery, he added.

Volatility wreaks havoc with heat map measures

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... volatility, might well be confused to see such a quick change in APRA's assessment," Carruthers said. Frontier said its research shows that across 10 years of analysis just a small number of funds have outperformed during both up and down markets, however ...

How competitive is the Australian ETF industry?

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... shows the Australian ETF industry has become more competitive over the years. Rainmaker Information head of investment research John Dyall used the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (HHI), which measures the concentration of players in a particular market and ...

VanEck makes case for equal weight investing

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... investing, arguing a skewed exposure towards smaller stocks can outperform during periods of market recovery. In its new research paper The road to recovery, VanEck examines three separate periods of recovery - the period following the 2001 dotcom burst ...

Profound uncertainty remains: IMF

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2020
... sheer scale and severity of the global lockdown has been striking. Gita Gopinath, economic counsellor and director of the research department at the IMF, said the "Great Lockdown" is expected to play out in three phases, entering the lockdown, exiting ...

Which is the most important letter in ESG?

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
New research from MSCI aims to explore the correlation between environmental, social and governance factors and performance by breaking down a company's ESG score by the letter. MSCI core equity research executive director Guido Giese said MSCI had ...

Asset managers leverage tech, outsourcing for growth

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2020
... months ahead will leverage technology and scalable solutions to drive growth and reduce costs. That's according to new research from Northern Trust, who argue COVID-19 has highlighted the potential of technology and outsourcing to reshape the global ...

Flamingo AI acquisition scrapped

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... consideration of $100, employee certain staff and honour their accrued entitlements of about $200,000, and pay 20% of any research and development or other Australian government rebate for the Flamingo's work until 31 May 2020. "As previously announced ...

Boutique expands investment team

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... Gitendra Pradhananga to join its $5 billion infrastructure business, set to help further develop the fund's ESG and research capabilities. Maple-Brown Abbott Global Listed Infrastructure (MBA GLI) co-founder and managing director Andrew Maple-Brown ...

Pendal bolsters ESG fixed income capability

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2020
... Bank in Hong Kong and Sydney. Finally, the firm added a new ESG credit analyst, former Institute for Economics and Peace research fellow Murray Ackman. Ackman will work across the firm's range of credit funds, with an emphasis on its Credit Impact Fund. ...