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Quality of Spain and Poland belies credit rating

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... already being applied to AXA's Responsible Investment funds and the investment manager is considering expanding it into mainstream funds. "The strength of our model is its flexibility, which allows us to propose different ways to integrate ESG criteria ...

Water fund recommended

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2013
... Zenith has recommended the Blue Sky Water Fund, which trades physical water assets that it says are uncorrelated to mainstream investments. The Blue Sky Water Fund is an unlisted fund operating in the alternatives space which focuses on investing and ...

BTIM launches emerging market strategy

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
... strategy aims to satisfy growing demand for investments focused on high-growth markets as emerging market funds become a mainstream strategy. "With approximately $2.4 billion flowing into emerging markets over the last 3 years, emerging markets is now ...

Financial advisers raise bar in quest to succeed

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 29 OCT 2012
... would be forced to resort to their negative perception of advisers, which is usually based on 'bad news' published in mainstream media. On the upside, advisers can use the white paper to challenge some of the misconceptions around advice, including who ...

QE3 will be different

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... criticism of the QE programs has been that they benefit the 1% who own the equity and they are in headwind for helping mainstream American households. "So what might have changed?" she asked. Howitt noted that if there is a risk - that's been the impact ...

BetaShares expands coverage

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 27 AUG 2012
... platforms (15%). "While there is still further work to be done by the industry, we expect to see ETFs become a core and mainstream building block for client portfolios in the future," said Corbett.

UK to ban exotic retail investment products

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 AUG 2012
... policy, risk and research at the FSA, said, "Product risks can be much greater on UCIS and similar products than on more mainstream investments and we have found that the majority of retail promotions and sales fall a long way short of our existing standards." ...

Super funds urged to include macro-level ESG principles

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2012
... markets. "The [UN] PRI believe that this will assist in their endeavor of ensuring that responsible investment will become mainstream." ESG investing has been highlighted recently, with the Australian Greens party putting a bill before parliament that ...

SFG rolls out FOFA-ready MDA

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
... net worth and SMSF investors, according to Fenning. "There have been many attempts across the industry to deliver a mainstream managed discretionary account service alongside traditional wrap offerings, and we are very pleased that Colonial has worked ...

Perpetual sells registry business

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2012
Perpetual has sold its registry business to specialist back-office administrator MainstreamBPO as part of its wider restructure. A perpetual spokesperson said that "it was clear that the technology investment required to grow this business ourselves ...