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Nanuk launches currency hedged unit class

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2023
... benefit from any investment gains in other markets irrespective of movements in the Australian dollar." The fund's currency hedging strategy primarily involved mitigating direct foreign currency exposure that arises from holding international currency-denominated ...

Super funds up offshore investments: Survey

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2021
Based on their currency hedging strategies, superannuation funds increasingly look offshore not only to invest in equities but also to gain more exposure to unlisted assets. According to NAB's 2021 Superannuation FX survey of 54 super funds, allocations ...

How YFYS test will change currency investments

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... funds' approaches to currency. QIC head of currency Stuart Simmons said super funds could be getting more out of currency hedging strategies than they are right now. In fact, he showed data indicating that currency can easily represent the second largest ...

AMP Capital shutters dud fund, Naeimi departs

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2021
... in 2011, AMP Capital's Dynamic Markets strategy was actively managed both in terms of asset allocation and currency hedging and took advantage of market mispricing around the world to generate growth," the spokesperson said. "Dynamic Markets Fund ...

Two Aussie CIOs on top 100 list

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2021
... navigate COVID-19 that provided guidance to the trustee board regarding the overall liquidity, member switching, currency hedging, asset allocation, unlisted valuations, and stress tests during the crisis," Chief Investment Officer said. "The fund has ...

Super fund liquidity could be better: RBA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 APR 2021
... funds," the report reads. "This illustrates that, in most circumstances, the liquidity risk involved with foreign currency hedging is at least partly mitigated by the depreciation of the Australian dollar also lifting the Australian dollar value of underlying ...

Magellan adds to board

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 30 NOV 2020
... continues to grow from strength to strength," Garnsey added. Magellan last week announced it is removing its currency hedging strategy in the Magellan High Conviction Trust to reduce the downside risk to the portfolio when equity markets and the value ...

Magellan axes currency hedging in trust

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 26 NOV 2020
A Magellan trust has removed its currency hedging strategy to reduce the downside risk to the portfolio when equity markets and the value of the Australian dollar are both declining. Magellan High Conviction Trust will move to an unhedged approach to ...

BetaShares to list hedged versions of global stocks ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2020
... ETF and will launch similar versions of two other ETFs in the coming weeks, as local investors' appetite for currency hedging grows. The BetaShares Global Quality Leaders ETF - Currency Hedged (HQLT) started trading on the ASX this morning. It tracks ...

Industry fund awards currency mandate

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAY 2018
... Multi-Strategy. Record said that its strategy allocated funds across currency risk premia to seek returns, despite currency hedging generally focusing on risk mitigation. Record chief executive James Wood-Collins said the manager was pleased to link ...