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Is a market turning point around the corner?

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
Antipodes Partners investment boss Jacob Mitchell believes less popular stocks might soon outperform the market's current winners. Current market cap concentration, and market breadth in the S&P500 might signal a turning point for less popular, lower ...

Boutique to remediate clients

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... manager will remediate clients in eight funds after a recent review of its management costs identified a unit pricing error. Alpha Fund Managers' investors in eight funds were charged the wrong fees between July, 2017 and January, 2020 for varying ...

Global manager rolls out local access to alternatives fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
... convertible bonds, looking to exploit pricing inefficiencies around corporate events or capital structures, and seeking to deliver alpha by investing long and short across pan-European equities among others. It charges investors a management fee of 0.90% ...

Super withdrawals being misused

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2020
New research has revealed 40% of those who accessed their superannuation early did not see any drop in their income during the COVID-19 pandemic. The data released by Illion and AlphaBeta, part of Accenture, shows that early superannuation withdrawal ...

Super fund awards global equities mandate

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
... lengthy open search process to take stock of, and potentially allocate to under-explored investment ideas with long term alpha potential," senior investment manager Andrew Huang said. "Neuberger Berman responded to us with a unique and compelling proposition." ...

Morningstar downgrades two Vanguard funds to neutral

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... Process and Parent pillars in the context of these fees, we don't think this share class will be able to deliver positive alpha relative to the category benchmark index, explaining its Morningstar Analyst Rating of Neutral." In response, Vanguard ...

Active share, past outperformance can predict returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... 3283 investment products in US actively managed equities between July 2007 and June 2016. The sample reported an average alpha of -0.52% a year and an active share of 81%. Next, it looked at predictability of future returns for managers that outperformed ...

Netwealth, Ironbark partner

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2020
... firms. "With managed accounts, advice firms have industrialised their investment process and are able to achieve execution alpha in that they are more likely to deliver more timely and better trading outcomes for all their clients, not just a select ...

Colonial First State closes global fund

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAY 2020
... $19.5 million diversified fund, after it returned -11.7% in the first three months of the year. The Acadian Diversified Alpha fund will no longer be available to investors, with switches and redemptions from the fund suspended as of March 20. The fund ...

Aussie analysts share COVID-19 investment tips

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... in the long term, he explained, but about making money wherever you can and on any time frame that allows. To find this alpha during the COVID-19 crisis, Shaw and Partners senior investment adviser Adam Dawes recommends buying quality companies with ...