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Perpetual equities fund cops ratings downgrade

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2020
... Perpetual's Paul Skamvougeras was downgraded to bronze at Morningstar. The Perpetual Wholesale Concentrated Growth Equity Fund invests in 20 to 45 Australian stocks, chosen with a value and balance sheet focus - similar to Perpetual's flagship Australian ...

Australian Business Growth Fund launches

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 19 OCT 2020
The government backed Australian Business Growth Fund has launched, to be led by former JB Were chair Anthony Healy. Healy has been appointed the inaugural chief executive of the fund and Will Hodgman, former premier of Tasmania, has been appointed ...

Multi-boutique adds investment firms

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2020
... independently owned asset manager which focuses on risked managed investing. Gyrostat manages the Absolute Return Income Equity Fund and also runs specialty risk managed investment mandates. On Terra Capital, Hatfield commented: "Founded in 2010 by Jeremy ...

Active managers grapple with EM

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2020
... Fund, to -2.8% p.a. for the Ironbark Copper Rock Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund and the Lazard Emerging Markets Equity Fund. Overall, the emerging markets sector's average return for the three years was 3.5% p.a. while the benchmark return was 5.6% ...

Ausbil drops fees on global equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... dropped the fees on a global equities fund with a sustainability focus by about 30bps. The Candriam Sustainable Global Equity Fund went from charging 1.05% per year in management costs to about 0.75% per year, effective October 1. The old 1.05% yearly ...

Active manager performance slumps: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
The coronavirus has wiped out the performance gains of active fund managers against their respective benchmarks, according to the latest SPIVA scorecard. S&P Dow Jones Indices' SPIVA scorecard, touted as the "de facto scorekeeper of the ongoing active ...

Morningstar ratings tally for global equities

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... Sustainable Equity, Barrow Hanley Global Equity Trust, BlackRock Advantage Hedged Intl Equity/ BlackRock Advantage Intl Equity Fund, Dimensional Global Large Company Trust and Dimensional Global Value Trust. Both Dimensional funds moved up as Morningstar's ...

Global equities manager hires GM

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2020
... Talaria's growth, and further recognition of the value it delivers for people and communities. Talaria runs the Global Equity Fund, Global Equity Fund - Hedged and Global Equity Fund - Foundation Units. Funds under management has grown by about 71% ...

Hedge funds in the green

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
The global hedge fund industry surged 2.5% in August, lifting the average strategy to sit comfortably in the green year to date. That's according to institutional research house eVestment, which found that thanks to August's results the average hedge ...

High performance funds significantly underperform: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
New research from Rainmaker Information has found that high performance Australian equity funds significantly underperformed their benchmark over the three years to June 2020. The median high performance fund underperformed its benchmark by 300 basis ...