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Ironbark to wind up emerging markets fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 13 NOV 2020
Ironbark Asset Management has terminated an emerging markets small caps fund, after the underlying manager decided to close. The Ironbark Copper Rock Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund aimed to beat the MSCI Emerging Markets Small Cap Index (in AUD) ...

UBS says goodbye to ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2020
UBS is sweeping clean its suite of ASX-listed ETFs, shutting down six funds and delisting three as asset growth stalls. UBS currently has nine ETFs with $300 million in funds under management at February end. On Friday, it informed investors of its ...

BlackRock shuts ASX-listed ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
BlackRock has informed investors of its plans to wind up an ASX-listed exchange traded fund following lacklustre demand. The iShares MSCI Taiwan ETF (ITW) started trading in Australia in November 2007 and at the end of last year had $5.65 million in ...

MLC funds tone down return expectations

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2019
MLC has informed investors that it expects lower returns for some of its funds, in light of "unusually low cash rates" and is cutting fees. MLC wholesale inflation plus portfolios are offered in three profiles: assertive, moderate and conservative. ...

GSFM announces strategic partnership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
GSFM has announced a strategic partnership with an overseas asset management firm. Canada-based Cambridge Global Asset Management will be partnering with GSFM to distribute the Cambridge Global Smaller Companies fund in the Australian and New Zealand ...

Swiss asset manager eyes Aussie instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2018
... will offer the SUSI OECD energy transition fund and the SUSI Asia energy transition fund. "Australia is a very informed investor base so it's less about us educating people about why this is important," SUSI chief investment officer Marco van Daele ...

SQM suspends Macquarie fund rating following investment team reshuffle

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2017
Following material changes to the investment strategy and team behind Macquarie's award-winning Australian Small Companies Fund, its rating has been changed to "hold" by SQM Research. SQM had originally downgraded the rating of the fund from 4.00 to ...

Avoid the ETF trap: Bell Direct

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 11 AUG 2017
... eight stocks a self-directed investor owns, at least one of these stocks are an ETF if not more. "For the ill-informed investor, unquestioned allocation to ETFs is a common trap. Attention must be given to the different styles and exposures of various ...

ASIC examines risks posed by complex products

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has released a new report examining the risks posed by complex products and how it will work to regulate them. 'Report 384 Regulating complex products' outlines sets out ASIC's recent and current ...

Marathon assets under review

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
At least $1.13 billion of superannuation assets are under review ahead of the imminent retirement of Jeremy Hosking, one of the three founders of Marathon Asset Management, in December. The UK-based fund manager, which has secured global equity portfolio ...