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Best-performing global equities funds for FY21

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2021
Locally available managed funds investing in large cap global shares tallied 28.6% in median returns for the year ending June, but funds from Forager and Loftus Peak reported big gains, according to Rainmaker research. The median outperformance in the ...

AMP flags recovery, profit jumps

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 12 AUG 2021
... business, which consists of infrastructure equity and debt, and real estate, will operate as standalone, while the Global Equities and Fixed Income business was recently offloaded to Macquarie. "Our plan is to formally de-merge business in the first ...

Pinnacle NPAT doubles in FY21

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2021
... Riparian won their first institutional mandates during the year. Hyperion won its first internationally sourced global equities mandate and Firetrail won its first Aussie small caps institutional mandate. Pinnacle said Two Trees, Longwave, Riparian ...

Pendal open to more acquisitions

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2021
... Barrow, Hanley, Mewhinney & Strauss, which he said was bigger and not as well performing or at AMP Capital's global equities and fixed income business, which was out of Pendal's geographies of focus in the US and Europe. "As we started to dig ...

New portfolio manager at Pengana

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 JUL 2021
A Pengana Capital global equities fund has appointed a new portfolio manager who previously established and led a boutique. Jeremy Bendeich is a new portfolio manager for Pengana's High Conviction Equities Fund. He works alongside James McDonald, who ...

Plato wins $3.9bn mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2021
... $3.9 billion at June end. Plato replaced First Sentier's RealIndex for the mandate, which continues to manage a global equities allocation for FirstChoice. Colonial First State general manager of investments Scott Tully said the change of managers comes ...

Colonial First State reports 22.4% in super returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
... said the managers were able to add value beyond the index returns. As an example, he cited RealIndex which has a global equities allocation from FirstChoice and did 8.6% above its benchmark during FY21. The fund is also looking to increase its exposure ...

Demand soars for global equities ETFs

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2021
Investors poured their money into global equities exchange-traded funds, which took in nearly $5 billion in the first half of 2021. This is according to a joint analysis by the Australian Securities Exchange and Vanguard, which found that global equity ...

Hejaz expands with three new funds

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
Hejaz Financial Services is launching three funds with an ethical overlay to retail investors that invest in global equities, credit and property. As part of the $180 million fund manager's aggressive growth strategy, the funds will give Australian ...

Active managers lead new ETF issuers

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2021
... with 8%. Vanguard and BetaShares led the inflows receiving around 65% of industry flows, up from 53% in 2020. Global equities products saw the highest inflows with $5 billion, followed by Australian equities at $1.5 billion. Rounding out the top five ...