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Blue Sky and Goldman Sachs partner for student accommodation

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2016
... export industry, worth in excess of $18 billion per annum and growing. The ability to scale further into this domestic thematic, in part due to the region's proximity to a rapidly expanding Asian middle class, is a key focus for the partnership," Vaggelas ...

Invast launches thematic model portfolios

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
Stockbroking platform Invast Australia has launched a number of model portfolios tackling themes such as the country's aging population, US cyber security and iconic Aussie brands. The portfolios will be listed in Invast's PortfolioInvestor platform ...

Fintech start-ups painted as future heroes

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... employing about 120 people, are several wealth management operations. Examples include: Macrovue - a platform building thematic professional portfolios or "Vues" that can be customised or invested in with minimal clicks. The wider goal is to create and ...

Unexpected impact of tech on US monetary policy

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
... makes the traditional EM model of competing based on cheap labour much more challenging," he said. Barry Knapp, head of thematic strategies in the company's Americas fixed income team said: "The US could be in for quite a boom period from technology-related ...

Australian Ethical launches country's first ethical bond fund

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2014
... represent a little less than 40% of the Trust's assets," Macri continued. "The Trust does not possess an overarching thematic. Its aim is to provide a fixed income portfolio of medium term duration (currently 4.3 years) that resembles that of the UBS/Bloomberg ...

MAX Preview: Beyond value of advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... advertising campaigns that focus on adviser needs as business owners. There was a lot of talk around the effectiveness of thematic campaigns (around SMSFs, retirement and insurance) but even more appealing to the planning panellists are campaigns around ...

Towers Watson urges instos to consider smart beta

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... active management with a third pillar - smart beta - targeting systematic factors, non-market cap stock weighting or thematic investment opportunities, to capture particular premiums, typically at very low cost. "It is no longer sufficient to have an ...

What is the future of transition management?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2014
... more and more super funds merge. "I'm happy to see consolidation. It will play well to our business. It's a positive thematic, all things being equal." he said. However, while the merger process will give rise to a large volume of mandate transitions ...

Two 'recommendations' awarded to Carnegie Trust

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... portfolio could result from other funds combining with other style-biased strategies. "Lonsec believes that the Fund's Thematic and GARP investment style coupled with the unconstrained and concentrated nature of the portfolio can be blended with other ...

APRA to scrutinise group insurance risk

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 FEB 2014
Group insurance risk management will be top of the agenda in a number of thematic reviews to be carried out by the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA), according to the regulator's general manager Greg Brunner. Speaking at the Australian ...