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Australian fund regulation below average: Morningstar

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... regulatory and tax frameworks that its managed funds face. As part of its biannual Global Investor Experience report, the research house assessed the experiences of mutual fund investors across 26 markets, assigning grades of top, above average, average ...

ESG performing positively: MSCI

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... outperformed the parent index in Q1 2020, with the SRI index showing the strongest performance over all periods. The research found a number of regional and sub-regional ESG indexes outperformed their market-cap-weighted parent index during Q1 2020 though ...

BlackRock turns optimistic on credit

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... on an asset class level; prefer credit over equities; and favor rebalancing into the risk asset decline," it said in a research note led by BlackRock Investment Institute head Jean Boivin. On credit, BlackRock thinks the temporary liquidity issues could ...

Property takes $237m hit

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... Australia, except for the nation's capital; Canberra. The findings come out of the City Analytics Lab in the Futures Research Centre at UNSW, who in response to the pandemic, developed a COVID-19 Property Market Dashboard for Australia. City Analytics ...

COVID-19 ETP market winners, losers

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
New Rainmaker research has revealed the winners and losers in the exchange traded product (ETP) market during the quarter to March's COVID-19 induced volatility. March 2020 was characterised by sharp falls and rises in equities as investors grappled ...

Frontier Advisors makes key appointments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... new faces will be joining its senior team. Joe Clark and James Bulfin will join Frontier's alternatives and derivatives research team as senior consultants. Clark joins from QIC where he was senior quantitative strategist and portfolio manager for insurance ...

A case for flexible asset allocation: First Sentier

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... have a view to be underweight to countries such as Italy, Spain and the US," Somaia said. "These views are driven by our research in to factors such as valuation and momentum which provide us a guidance on relative preferences over the coming weeks and ...

No golden ticket for super funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... won't be able to guild returns through investments in gold, according to Parametric. Parametric managing director of research Raewyn Williams said investments in gold failed to provide a safe haven from market volatility in March. Williams said gold's ...

Top asset consultants named

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2020
... six consecutive years," Polson said. "Most importantly though, we simply remain focussed on providing the best advice, research and support that we can to our clients, particularly in the current environment." WTW head of investments, Martin Goss, noted ...

University of Sydney scores win at CFA competition

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2020
... students, mentored by Regal Funds Management's Michael Toh, won the Global Champion award at the annual CFA Institute Research Challenge for their research on Commonwealth Bank. Jassis Chen, Jessica Wu, Sahil Arora, Tom Luo and Jeffrey Brown defended ...