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Active funds continue underperformance

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2022
... funds which have stood out from the other fund categories for one and three-year periods." S&P Dow Jones Indices head of global index research and design Priscilla Luk said. "However, both Australian equity fund categories failed to demonstrate performance ...

Rest awards responsible investment mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2022
... will see it implement ethical and sustainable screens and tilts across its listed real assets portfolio, which includes global listed infrastructure, and global and Australian-listed REITs. Rest chief investment officer Andrew Lill said the mandate will ...

Demand soars for global equities ETFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
Investors poured their money into global equities exchange-traded funds, which took in nearly $5 billion in the first half of 2021. This is according to a joint analysis by the Australian Securities Exchange and Vanguard, which found that global equity ...

Retail funds blitz personal-balanced options

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2021
... per annum in the year to May 2021, beating the benchmark of 15.2% p.a. MLC MasterKey Super Fundamentals' BlackRock Global Allocation Fund came in second place at 21.9% p.a. Suncorp's Lifestage Fund 1975-1979 placed third with 19.6% p.a. Industry ...

Qantas Super introduces passive option, drops fees

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2021
... resources," the super fund said. It will track the S&P/ASX300, MSCI All Countries World ex-Australia Index, S&P Global REIT Index, Bloomberg AusBond Government All Maturities Index and Bloomberg AusBond Bank Bill Index. With a target return of CPI plus ...

Advisers turn to ETFs during COVID

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
Financial advisers' appetite for exchange-traded funds has more than doubled since the global pandemic hit as new trading data shows that index funds are providing better means of diversification. AUSIEX research found that before COVID-19, one ...

Evergreen partners with Generation Life

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2021
... (Ardea), Australian fixed income (Janus Henderson and Pendal), emerging markets (RWC, distributed by Channel Capital), global equities (BetaShares, Nanuk, Pengana, Regnan, State Street, Stewart Investors and Zurich Investments), global fixed interest ...

REITs extend performance struggles

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2021
Australia's listed property sector continues to languish from the effects of the global pandemic, slumping 14% compared to its pre-COVID-19 performance. Rainmaker's Wholesale Managed Funds Performance Report found that equities delivered a mixed ...

Asset managers still bearish, but less so

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... second quarter of this year was extremely positive for risk assets, largely reversing Q1 losses for both a simple 60/40 (global equities/government bonds) portfolio and a risk parity portfolio," bfinance said. "From a risk perspective, our clients have ...

Momentum, quality outperform in 2020: S&P

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2020
... During the crash, most factor indices' performance aligned with their long-term characteristics, S&P Dow Jones Indices APAC global research and design director Liyu Zeng said. However, the outperformance of the low volatility index was not as pronounced ...