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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 ...

Active management a 2% tax drag

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... for MySuper products has increased the focus on the impact taxes have on returns. Parametric says that while active management continues to be the weapon of choice of the majority of institutional and retail investors, a retirement strategy based on ...

AMP awarded $800m equity mandate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... Index Share fund, which invests in companies listed on the ASX. The strategy combines strong risk controls and active management to invest in a large number of stocks. Active positions are focused predominantly on large capitalisation stocks. AMP uses ...

SSgA launches low-risk global equity fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Active management is a tough game and picking active managers is just as tough, warns State Street Global Advisers' Lochiel Crafter. The head of investments for the Asia Pacific at SSgA says that investors are often disappointed by the returns generated ...

AXA IM launches two SmartBeta products

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... SmartBeta global equity strategy offers a sensible middle ground between blind index tracking and expensive active management strategies," Hurt concluded.

PineBridge pitches quant solution to super funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... PineBridge Investments has been meeting with financial institutions in the hope of bringing a cheap alternative to active management to Australian investors. Its Quantitative Enhanced Indexing investment solution is designed to be less expensive than ...

Smart beta ETF take-up to double in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... in total ETF FUM, can expect similar traction." Small adds that smart beta products combine the benefits of active management-type approaches with the ease of access and low-cost nature of ETFs. "They are not a replacement for managed funds but a complementary ...