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Towers Watson urges instos to consider smart beta

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... Towers Watson said the building blocks of equity portfolios have evolved beyond market cap-weighted passive equity and active management with a third pillar - smart beta - targeting systematic factors, non-market cap stock weighting or thematic investment ...

Could government issue its own annuities?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
The government could play an active role in the creation of a functioning annuities and longevity insurance market, according to the Centre of Excellence in Population Ageing Research (CEPAR) in its submission to the Financial System Inquiry. While ...

Younger Australians taking interest in superannuation

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
Younger people are taking a more active interest in their superannuation, according to the latest quarterly MLC Wealth Sentiment Survey. In a break from tradition where younger people have typically been disengaged with their savings, the survey found ...

WaveStone launches local long-only equity fund

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 15 APR 2014
... Harding, Graeme Burke and Catherine Allfrey established the Australian and New Zealand focused fund manager in 2006 with an active, bottom-up investment approach. Allfrey said the launch of the new style product into the institutional investment market ...

FEATURE: The alpha hunters

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... conservatism of investors, there is more going on in Australian equities than meets the eye. There is actually a thriving active fund management industry in Australia employing all sorts of ingenious strategies to add alpha to their portfolios. For the ...

Leap in appetite for overseas assets

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2014
Investor appetite for overseas assets jumped 15% in March, according to the Certitude Global Investing Intentions Index (CGIII), and is now at the second highest level since the index was constructed in June 2013. The Index collates the views of over ...

Advisers show overwhelming support for ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 7 APR 2014
... beta ETFs beginning to replace traditional passive index exposures. "ETFs free part of an expense and risk budget to pay active managers in which they have a high degree of confidence."

Folkestone acquires Maxim property boutique

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2014
... securities funds and real estate debt funds will assist Maxim to further grow its funds under management." "Maxim is an active manager of listed real estate securities funds and we have a strong track record in outperforming the S&P/ASX 300 A-REIT Index. ...

Lawyer exposes ASIC favours to big players

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2014
Former Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) lawyer James Wheeldon has revealed the regulator gave favourable treatment to the big end of the market. Wheeldon appeared yesterday at a public hearing of the Senate inquiry into the performance ...

AMP opens three funds to retail investors

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 APR 2014
... accumulators or pre-retirees, who are concerned about market volatility and are looking for a cost-effective way to access active management. The fund adopts a dynamic asset allocation investment approach. This means the fund can reduce its allocation ...