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Vanguard to launch international fixed income ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... at the end of 2015, subject to regulatory approval. They will be the first international fixed income ETFs available on the ASX. In a statement, Vanguard head of market strategy and communications Robin Bowerman said that "the launch of VIF and VCF will ...

Future Generation IPO raises $300m

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
Future Generation Global Investment Company (FGG) has listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) having raised $302.1 million in its initial public offering (IPO). The listed investment company (LIC) is a fund of funds that gives investors access ...

BTFG adds managed funds to platform

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... also plans to introduce a self-managed super fund (SMSF) solution and direct equities to allow individuals to trade on the ASX. "This will provide advisers and their clients with a full investment platform," he said. "As we continue to roll out new offerings ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... out-manoeuvrer the threat posed by ETFs. Douglass, however, was the first to get it over the line. "We had to work with the ASX and ASIC around the disclosure regime because we couldn't give away our holdings every day. We've agreed to the disclosure ...

Member direct investment needs work

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... 14,000 MDIO members with $740 million in FUA. But the returns by do-it-yourself investors at Hostplus are underperforming. "The ASX has roughly returned 12% over that two year period, cumulative return. The Hostplus balanced option has returned cumulatively ...

Sigma wins industry fund equities mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... risk. This is because it only invests in small cap companies when they offer significant risk-adjusted upside relative to the ASX 300, as opposed to a small cap index. Sigma is a boutique large and small cap Australian equities manager established in ...

Highest paid industry CEOs revealed

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... in 2014, the latest research from the Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) revealed. The ACSI 'CEO Pay in ASX 200 Companies' report A looked at the earnings reports from ASX100 companies and found that the 10 highest paid chief executives ...

Future Super launches fossil free index

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2015
Investors interested in Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) listed companies considered to be fossil fuel free and sustainably sound have been given a helping hand. Today Thomson Reuters and Future Super have launched two indices aiming to serve growing ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... Pacific Mark Wills says. "But ours is a horrendously bad index," he adds, in reference to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) lack of diversification across a large number of sectors. "We've got little in technology, little in healthcare, our banks ...

Industry gears for new settlement regime

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... (ACSA) chair David Knights. In its role on the Operations Working Group established last year by the Australian Stock Exchange (ASX), ACSA has been a key contributor in the preparations. The industry body continues to work with the ASX on determining ...