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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 ...

BNY Mellon subsidiary makes local and global hires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
... Management, focused on fixed income, currency and commodities and had responsibility for Macquarie's Australian dollar currency hedging business, providing hedging services to Australian pension funds. He will report to Insight Australia and New Zealand ...

Hedging strategies protecting members' assets: NAB

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2017
... dominant product for hedging. Demand for of cross-currency swaps and options however remained flat. In setting currency hedging strategies for the year, respondents said regulation played a significant role in the decision-making process, while 30% said ...

SSGA expands active managed funds business

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 APR 2017
... They currently offer five active funds - benchmark-unaware Australian and global equity strategies (with dynamic currency hedging for the global strategy), and three objective-based asset allocation funds to support lifestage planning. "There's a common ...

Top 10 investment stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... impact of currency movements. The International Shares option kept the same investment portfolio but without currency hedging. 2. Aussie fund manager London bound An Australian fund manager is expanding to the United Kingdom, opening an office in London. ...

Japan ripe for investment

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2016
... companies, those that pay the top dollar dividend, and also provides investors with significant benefits from currency hedging. "From the moment you enter the fund because of the interest rate differential you're picking up almost 200 basis points just ...

Russell launches dynamic currency hedging

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 14 NOV 2016
Russell Investments is introducing its informed dynamic currency hedging model. Targeted at lowering risk and improving returns in international currency exposure, the model promises an excess return of 0.8% per annum. Hedge rules for each currency ...