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BetaShares launches hedged Europe and Japan ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2016
... the products have been developed for investors looking to diversify their portfolios and access European or Japanese equities markets, but who may be concerned about the effects of currency fluctuations on investment performance. According to BetaShares' ...

SMSFs up property, managed funds exposure

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
... exposure to property has increased to 20.4% of portfolios in the 12 months to end of March 2016 at the expense of Australian equities, according to data compiled by SMSF administrator SuperConcepts. Property increased its share from 17% at 31 March 2015 ...

Super fund asset class performance disappoints

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2016
... there is clear variation between funds, with some funds consistently outperforming whilst others underperform. Australian equities have fared fairly well with most funds beating the benchmark over one and three years and more than 40% exceeding the index ...

Multi-factor investing applies to credit too: Robeco

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... for fixed income as well. "What we generally have seen is that a lot of the theory that has primarily been applied to equities can actually also very successfully be applied to the credit space," explained Robeco client portfolio manager Maurice Meijers. ...

Tribeca announces new appointment

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2016
... managing director David Aylward. Evans' most recent appointment was at Bank of America Merrill Lynch where he was head of equities trading and financing. For the past 15 years his experience has included managing long/short investing, trading and financing ...

Hyperion hard-closes flagship small-cap fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
Hyperion Asset Management has announced it will hard-close its small-cap Australian equities fund, the Hyperion Small Growth Companies Fund. Having originally soft-closed the fund at the beginning of April, Hyperion will now pay out distributions in ...

Investors must look past market noise: AXA IM

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... of responsible investment to the mainstream. Despite its current economic slowdown, Mark Tinker, head of Framlington Equities Asia at AXA IM argued that investors should look to China as it transitions to a consumer led economy, or China growth 2.0 ...

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... China's down 0.9%; Singapore's down 3.8%; South Korea's down 0.9%. Was it the Federal Budget that caused the Australian equities to zig when most others zagged? Or the upcoming 2 July Federal elections (but this was called over the weekend)? Or Donald ...

Agriculture ripe for institutional picking

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2016
... director corporate finance and agribusiness specialist, Margaux Beauchamp, says agriculture is expected to outperform both equities and bonds over the next five years. "Agriculture is a hedge against inflation, provides diversification with a low correlation ...

BTIM reveals strong results

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2016
... inflows of $1.5 billion from market movements and investment outperformance. Global/International and Emerging Market equities received the strongest demand from investors, with net inflows of $0.7 billion and $0.5 billion respectively, followed by European ...