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EM equities beating global indices: VanEck

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
Emerging market equities have outperformed global indices over 2016's third quarter after several years of underperformance, according to VanEck research. VanEck emerging markets equity portfolio manager David Semple explained that while EM has "generally ...

Legg Mason, AB funds highly recommended

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
The Legg Mason Martin Currie Equity Income Trust and the AB Managed Volatility Equities Fund have received highly recommended ratings from Lonsec in the research house's latest review. Launched in 2011, the Legg Mason Martin Currie Equity Income Trust ...

ASX responds to CFR regulatory expectations

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
The ASX has updated its Cash Equities Clearing and Settlement Code of Practice to align with new Council of Financial Regulators (CFR) policy statements. In March the Federal Government asked CFR to prepare the policy statements to ensure the right ...

Nikko AM wins Aussie equity mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
An industry superannuation fund is partnering with Nikko Asset Management for an Australian equities mandate. The $4 billion TWUSUPER recently appointed Nikko to run a mandate through its long running Australian Equities Comparative Value Analysis strategy. ...

New BetaShares fund combats investor bias

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
... periods to September 2016," he said. "Our new Ex-20 ETF is a simple, low-cost way to diversify and complete an Australian equities portfolio, thus reducing portfolio concentration to individual securities and market sectors." BetaShares now offers the ...

EAM Investors wins first Australian mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
... mandate. IOOF Investments has added the fund manager's Emerging Markets Small Cap Strategy to its IOOF MultiMix global equities multi-manager structure. EAM said emerging markets small cap stocks are often underrepresented within institutional investors' ...

Retail funds trailing NFPs

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... to fund performance, according to the report, was property, which delivered 25% in the year to August 31. Australian equities delivered 9.3% and fixed interest delivered a relatively strong 6.2%. International equities only contributed 1.1%, which the ...

Morgan Stanley chief executive steps down

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
... Morgan Stanley Australia boasts one of the country's largest retail adviser networks and the company's institutional equities team is now the country's third largest broker by market share.

Yale returns 3.4 pct

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
... $7.1 billion of value in the form of increased spending and enhanced endowment value." YEF's asset allocation is 19% in equities, 13% in property, 8% in bonds and cash with the remaining 60% in absolute return funds, venture capital, leveraged buy-outs ...

Passive investors probably not Marxist parasites: MSCI

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... opportunity set rather than the whole." He noted that if institutional investors just wanted to capture the majority of global equities at market cap weights, they could simply track the MSCI ACWI IMI index; instead they tend to be more specific. "Therefore ...