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Morningstar launches multi-asset indexes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... "Defining the investable universe in a way that facilitates measurement is a difficult task and multi-asset investment managers respond with a wide range of measures to define the success of their strategies, resulting in confusion for investors." According ...

Future Fund becoming more expensive to operate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 28 OCT 2021
... agency remuneration (up 16%), consultant fees (up 22%) and agency operations (up 28%). Contract costs with investment managers however, fell 20% year on year to $180 million. Talks of the Future Fund taking over the management of superannuation have ...

Natixis hires sales director from First Sentier

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 OCT 2021
Natixis Investment Managers hired an institutional sales director who spent nearly a decade at First Sentier Investors. Sydney-based Edward Tighe joined Natixis IM in October. He finished up as director of institutional business at First Sentier, formerly ...

Scariest themes for investors revealed

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2021
... attending Citi's 13th annual Australia and New Zealand Investment Conference. The survey revealed more than 50% of investment managers attending were adopting defensive positions against a fragile macro environment, with China front and centre as the ...

What family offices want: Report

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2021
... produced a new report revealing how much growth family offices expect from investments and what they want from investment managers. The report found that the average wealth of an Australian family office is $1.12 billion in NSW and $1.04 billion in Victoria. ...

Industry slams Future Fund disclosure exemption

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2021
... said: "Apparently the application of Australia's FOI laws to the Future Fund are the weak link for global investment managers that might lead to market sensitive information being released and everyone losing their money." "Which, of course, is bunkum." ...

Sustainable SMAs added to Macquarie Wrap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2021
... and clients, empowering them to make decisions based on their own values and principles." There is 61 SMA investment managers across 310 models currently on the Macquarie Wrap platform, in addition to a suite of more than 890 managed funds.

JANA makes senior appointment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2021
... investment consultancy. In this role, he assisted NFP boards and investment committees to engage with their investment managers. Prior to starting Mercury Associates, Fernando worked as a private client manager for National Australia Bank and private ...

Loomis Sayles lists active ETF

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2021
... Sayles Global Equity Fund. The latter launched in Australia three years ago in partnership with another Natixis Investment Managers affiliate, Investors Mutual. Both funds are based on the existing US-domiciled strategy run by Loomis Sayles portfolio ...

Financial Standard launches weekly podcast

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2021
Financial Standard is expanding its media offering with a new weekly podcast for financial advisers, investment managers and super fund trustees. In addition to discussing the week's biggest news, the podcast will feature interviews with industry ...