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Pinnacle boutique launches $250m LIC offer

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2017
... (SEC), which will invest in a portfolio of small and micro-cap companies and aims to outperform the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index on a rolling three-to-five-year basis. As a reference, the Spheria Australian Smaller Companies Fund, which employs the ...

Macquarie wins $50m small cap mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
... in the strategy to $150 million. Over the past five years, the fund has delivered 11.6% over the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index per annum. The strategy targets both value and growth stocks in a diversified portfolio of small listed or soon-to-be listed ...

Finding quality in small caps

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2017
... Index), based on small companies that pay regular dividends, and its outperformance relative to the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index. The report said using this index produces a quality tilt and reduces volatility. "Dividend screening is the first point ...

Azimut investment play gets Lonsec approval

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 23 MAY 2017
... outside of the ASX 100, and is able to hold up to 20% in cash if necessary. It has outperformed the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index by 12.6% over the 12 months to 31 March 2017. AZ Sestante head of distribution Andrew Davies said: "I am very excited to ...

BetaShares launches small-cap fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2017
... served as these indices have historically not provided extra return for the added risk. "As the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index contains many unprofitable, speculative and illiquid stocks, which tend to perform poorly over time and cause a drag on index ...

Small caps beating blue chips: Lonsec

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
... according to Lonsec research. As Lonsec's Australian Equities Smaller Company Sector Review noted, the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index returned 10.2% in 2015, compared to the 2.6% return of the ASX 200. "Finally, after a series of negative returns, Australian ...

Active fund failure shown in new data

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 OCT 2014
... management is Australian Small-Cap Equities where only around 8% of active funds underperformed the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index over one and three years and 17% underperformed over five years. S&P Dow Jones Indices attributed the outperformance of ...

RBA says its ok

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... caps, with the ASX Top 100 index advancing by 11.8% in the January to October 2012 period while the ASX Small Ordinaries index managed only a 2.8% lift. Nevertheless, October's sectoral performance is encouraging with all of the S&P/ASX 200 GICS (global ...

van Eyk awards small cap managers' highest rating

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
... analyst on the review Varun Venkatraman said all the strategies reviewed had outperformed both the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries index and the S&P/ASX200 over a 1-5 year time frame. "It's a highly competitive peer group, much more so than the large cap sector" ...

IOOF awards OC $50m mandate

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2012
... managers," added Farmer. The OC Premium Wholesale Equity Strategy has returned 4.4% versus the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index -14.6% over the one year period and 20.2% p.a. versus the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index of 3.9% p.a. over a three year period ...