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Active the best way forward for super: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... particularly super funds, have been the beneficiary of active investment managers historically delivering consistent performance. Peterson points to the idea that investment rankings are largely predictable, especially over five-year timeframes. His ...

SelectingSuper finalists announced

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
... in Australia. Finalists for each category have been assessed by the Rainmaker research team based on consistency of performance across their menu range, price value, insurance value across their policy range, features and overall quality to members. ...

Platinum expands North American footprint

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
... trading under PIXX, and the Platinum Asia Fund (Quoted Managed Fund) trading under PAXX. PIXX invests in an underlying performance fee class of the $10 billion Platinum International Fund. PAXX invests in an underlying performance fee class of the $4 ...

UBS wins pensions mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
... to work together to develop plans to "pool investments to significantly reduce costs, while maintaining investment performance." The $18 billion mandate is among some of the biggest awarded to date. In April 2017 AMP Capital awarded a passive suite of ...

QIC adopts regtech solution

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
... comprehensive operational transformation program to take ownership of its investment data, implementing data management and performance solutions in a bid to make its performance measurement function operate as efficiently as possible. "RIMES is a big ...

Equity research firm expands to Australia

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2017
An equity and performance analytics research firm has opened a Melbourne office, and plans to increase its footprint across the Asia Pacific. Style Research provides factor-based equity analytics and portfolio communication tools globally for 300 investment ...

Fidelity portfolio manager steps down

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 13 OCT 2017
... debuted its reduced annual management fee along with a variable management fee "that is symmetrically linked to fund performance." In practical terms, the variable fee operates on the principle that when Fidelity delivers outperformance net of fees ...

ECB exit: 2018 or 2021?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2017
... but the actual "timing" of the exit. The "beginning of next year" looks ideal given the euro area financial markets' performance of late. Despite the euro's 12.4% appreciation versus the US dollar this year to date to US$1.18, the Stoxx-50 index has ...

Link Fund Solutions wins first client

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... chief executive officer, Andrew Harrison said. QVG Capital portfolio manager Tony Waters said that based on the fund's performance so far, he is confident that it will deliver on its long-term investment strategy. "We have selected what we consider to ...

SMSFs narrow performance gap: Rainmaker

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... compared with about 10% in MySuper products. On a positive note, the SG360 SMSF reference index is closing in on the performance gap over the three-year and five-year time horizon of 1.2% and 1.9% respectively (see Graph 1). Over a 10-year period, both ...