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FIIG Securities picks Equity Trustees for new fund

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 OCT 2023
FIIG Securities has selected Equity Trustees to be the trustee of its newly launched Australian bond fund. Equity Trustees has won the mandate to serve as trustee of the FIIG Australian Bond Fund which provides investors with capital stability and income ...

Are indexes the next target for greenwashing investigations?

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 8 AUG 2023
ASIC's latest action against Vanguard for allegations of greenwashing in a bond fund raises the question of whether the market regulator will crack down on index providers and other third-party service providers for greenwashing as well. Last month ...

ASIC sues Vanguard for greenwash in bond fund

RACHEL ALEMBAKIS  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2023
ASIC is taking Vanguard to court over greenwashing allegations relating to a global bond index fund. This is the second time the market regulator has acted against Vanguard over greenwashing. ASIC has lodged civil penalty proceedings in federal court ...

abrdn sells local trustee business

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023
... International Equities Fund, abrdn Multi-Asset Real Return Fund, abrdn Multi-Asset Income Fund, abrdn Global Corporate Bond Fund, abrdn Global Risk Mitigation Fund, SGH Australian Small Companies Fund and the SGH Ex-20 Australian Equities Fund. The move ...

Macquarie AM wins manager of the year: ILAs

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... It also won the Fixed Income Aggregate Bonds and Australian Equities Active Core categories for its Macquarie Dynamic Bond Fund and the Macquarie Australian Shares Fund respectively. Vanguard Investments Australia and Insignia Financial were the other ...

Betashares previews NZ PIE fund offering

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2023
... Australia 200 Fund, the Betashares Global Quality Leaders Fund, and the Betashares Australian Investment Grade Coprorate Bond Fund (NZD hedged). It marks the first time the fund manager will have launched investment solutions outside of Australia and ...

Australia lags in global fund disclosure: Morningstar

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023
... its credit quality and interest-rate risk," the report said. "If a superannuation fund were to invest in an external bond fund, it need only disclose the name of the fund manager, obscuring whether the investment was in Australian government debt, emerging-market ...

Absolute-return bond funds fail ambitious returns: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
An analysis of absolute-return bond fund managers found that they have "ambitious" returns as only one in seven strategies meet their objectives. The Morningstar research found that most absolute-return bond managers will not always provide positive ...

Morningstar downgrades PIMCO, Vanguard funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 APR 2023
... positive environments for credit. The competitive advantages here are less obvious to us." Further, the PIMCO ESG Global Bond Fund - Wholesale and the PIMCO Global Credit W have been bumped down from Gold to Silver. On the global bond option, Morningstar ...

Fixed interest ETP issuers hit the gas

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAR 2023
... the second highest fees (FUM-weighted average 0.5% pa). "This sector is dominated by the ActiveX Ardea Real Outcome Bond Fund (80% by FUM)," Rainmaker said.