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Standard Life Investments to buy UK fund manager

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2014
... life company subsidiaries. The combined business will offer a full range of investment solutions, including active management for institutional and wholesale clients, discretionary wealth management for high net worth private clients and outcome orientated ...

AMP Flexible Super adds new insurance and investment options

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAR 2014
... traditional diversified fund that uses both dynamic asset allocation and strategic management to deliver lower cost active management. The AMP Capital Dynamic Markets Fund uses dynamic asset allocation, providing a flexible investment approach that aims ...

ETF assets to surpass hedge funds in 12-18 months

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 FEB 2014
... market still has a lot of room for growth. Given ETFs are often marketed as lower cost investment options to active management, it will be interesting to see whether initiatives like the MySuper low cost option start looking to ETF's to deliver investment ...

Realindex outperforms as it passes five-year milestone

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014
... smart beta funds offer a compelling alternative to market cap index funds and a cost-effective alternative to active management investment strategies. "Smart beta is an area that we think will continue to see traction within both institutional and retail ...

Super funds hungry for global equities specialists

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
... Australian system "a model for the rest of the world." Carnegie specialises in bottom-up, benchmark unaware, active management. It holds no more than 30 stocks at a time, preferring large to mega cap companies for liquidity purposes. It is currently ...

ETF market closes in on $9 billion milestone

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2013
... options can potentially be a source of value add to cost-sensitive investors who wish to maintain an exposure to active management. This is a space Zenith intends to monitor closely as we expect it to continue to develop," Higgins continued. In its first ...

Infrastructure boom set to continue

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2013
... but the trend of long term outperformance of major sector indices indicates investors have been rewarded for active management within the infrastructure sector," Coutts said.

MSCI upgrades heighten frontier market concentration risk

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 JUL 2013
... manager with the flexibility to control a fund's regional exposure. "It reinforces our more diversified and active management approach to frontier markets as the best way to invest in this space." "We believe our conservative approach and our underlying ...

Lonsec expects growth in smart beta ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... Michael Elsworth said smart beta ETFs are on the rise because they represent a cost efficient way of investing in active management. "Smart beta ETFs resemble passive investments, but the deviations from capitalisation weighted indices reflect active ...

MySuper a challenge to fund differentiation: AusSuper

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... "The area where we see the real fight happening is the investment management side and whether you are doing active management or indexing, there will be a fight on fees," Carter said. AustralianSuper has positioned itself ahead of MySuper starting date ...