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Rainmaker unveils the best wholesale managed funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... million unlisted fund invests in shopping centres and other retail-based properties. The latest Wholesale Managed Funds Performance report ranked Fidelity China Fund (20.1%) as the next top-performing fund, followed by T. Rowe Price's Global Equity ...

ASIC to strengthen complaints handling

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... The regulator is proposing standards that will include mandatory data reporting and make firms' complaints handling performance transparent. Financial firms will be required by ASIC to meet the new standards when they deal with consumer complaints through ...

Beware: Zombie ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... management across the nine funds range from $1.7 million to $7.4 million. The Zombie ETF research did not consider performance. Further, Australian ETFs' buy sell spreads and manager expense ratios have fallen in the six years to December 2018, which ...

Chief economist update: Low unemployment, low wages growth conundrum

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... finding a job as they want but businesses are the ones doing the hiring. Not only this, the employment components of AiG performance of industry indices point to further labour market weakness - manufacturing employment down 5.1 points to a reading of ...

Aberdeen Standard hires ESG investment director

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... remit at ASI is to analyse long-term factors involving investee companies' environmental and social management and performance, and effective governance structures. He reports to global head of stewardship and ESG investment Euan Stirling. Commenting ...

VGI Partners' dual pitch to investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... almost tripling in three years. Last year, VGIs funds collected about $19 million in management fees and $25 million in performance fees. The $75 million raise will represent on following completion of the offer, approximately 20% of the issued Shares ...

Multi-asset SMA launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... challenges advisers face in a post-Royal Commission world mean that any proposed solution must compete on both cost and performance. "Resonant's multi-asset SMAs do just that," he said. Prior to Resonant, Morton was a senior quantitative analyst at Colonial ...

Bennelong adds Asian equities boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 MAY 2019
... high-calibre investment talent to bring quality funds to market. BennBridge continues to seek opportunities to build high performance focused investment teams, while increasing our global distribution footprint," he said. "Our intention is to bring Australian ...

Industry fund dips toes in private equity

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2019
... over-heated by artificially low interest rates. Its bond option is now the top performer on SelectingSuper personal super performance tables to March 13, with a 6.5% return over the year and the investments are managed through Ardea, Coolabah and Kapstream. ...

Female fintechs make better investments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2019
... Price said: "This data from the UK reinforces that it is gender bias and workplace imbalance, and not capability or performance, accounts for the lack of female fintech leaders." She pointed out that in Australia the number of women who found start-ups ...