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'Growing revenues, not AUM, is the new name of the game': ISS

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUL 2024
... market run, during which investors enjoyed 13 years of growth with modest and short-lived dips, gave the broad-based equity index offerings time to entrench themselves in the adviser and investor psyche." However, despite index funds having dethroned ...

Vanguard chief executive Tim Buckley to retire

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 1 MAR 2024
... Management Group since 2017, Davis currently oversees $8 trillion in global assets managed by the firm's fixed income, equity index, and quantitative equity groups. Prior to being named chief investment officer, Davis was principal and global head ...

Quality is worth paying for in 2024: UBS

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 23 NOV 2023
To navigate the year ahead, UBS Global Wealth Management's chief investment office (CIO) team believes investors should look to quality stocks and bonds for positive returns. Outlined in its recent Year Ahead 2024 report, the UBS CIO team said as interest ...

New Vanguard regional ETF capital markets lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2023
Vanguard Australia has appointed a new lead for the Asia Pacific region who will oversee ETF capital markets as the incumbent takes up another role within the firm. Adam DeSanctis, who most recently had a stint in personalised indexing for financial ...

V-Square launches Australian ESG index strategy

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2022
The Chicago based asset manager has extended its offering to Australian asset owners with the launch of the V-Square MSCI Global Equity ESG Materiality and Carbon Transition Indexed Strategy. The strategy tracks the MSCI All Country World Index (ACWI) ...

Vanguard suspends trading in Russian securities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
Vanguard has suspended the purchasing of Russian securities from all its actively managed funds and is also working to divest passive holdings. In a statement, Vanguard said its total exposure to Russia only accounts for about 0.01% of client assets ...

Australia-first private equity ETF to launch

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2021
... GPEQ) will list on the ASX and is the first Australian private equity ETF. GPEQ will track the LPX50 Listed Private Equity Index, which has a 10-year performance (in AUD) to 31 October 2021 of 20.9% per annum. The index is designed to represent the global ...

Leadership changes at Vanguard Australia

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2021
... Pennsylvania to take up the role of global head of investment product. Burns is currently the head of Vanguard's Equity Index Group for Asia-Pacific, based in Melbourne. He will retain oversight of the Equity Index Group in addition to assuming the ...

FTSE Russell launches new ESG indexes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2021
FTSE Russell has introduced six Russell ESG indexes, based on the Russell 1000, 2000 and 3000 benchmarks. The Russell US ESG Indexes are designed to integrate ESG into institutional-grade US equity indexes. The six new indexes are constructed using ...

Actuary of the Year named

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2021
... approach to welfare spending and public housing. Miller recently completed the Australian Actuaries Intergenerational Equity Index for the Actuaries Institute which sought to understand the impact of the environment, housing, education, economics and ...