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Instos face debate on EM strategy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 FEB 2012
... market investment featuring equities, debt and currencies is the best option to meet the challenge. A multi-asset active management approach leads to opportunities for capitalisation on mispricings between debt and equity of a particular company as well ...

IOOF boosts active management, lowers fees

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
IOOF has announced plans to increase the exposure of its Multi Series Balanced Trust to active management while lowering its fees to 0.55% in a spate of upgrades for the trust. Part of the recently launched Pursuit Focus platform, the upgrades to the ...

MLC MasterKey fees cut, new features

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... leadership position," said Dean Thomas, MLC MasterKey general manager. "We've kept true to the MLC philosophy of active management by combining the best of both worlds: our proven asset allocation, Strategic Overlay, manager research for active defensive ...

Indexed FUM up 30% since GFC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... 12%, its lowest ever level as the fixed interest and credit markets have in essence merged and thus created active management opportunities." Rainmaker noted that improving equity indexing penetration masks the dampening importance equity assets play ...

Zenith secures two advice firms

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... required of research providers is their ability to administer robust approved product lists based on quality active management and proven portfolio construction capacity." Zenith said there would be more client announcements in the near future.

REST focused on long term after posting healthy returns

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
... Super's core strategy achieved returns of 9.56% for the last financial year, which the fund attributed to its active management style, while its tax-free core pension strategy returned 10.71%. The $20 billion hospitality industry fund posted positive ...

Funds ignoring foreign exchange risk

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... with better foreign currency management this financial year. "Compared to the difficulty and cost involved in active management, this is a simple way of decreasing risk and increasing returns over time," said Rieck.

Fundamental indexing isn't

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUN 2011
... managers pick stocks based on market indicators other than market capitalisation, is just a disguised form of active management, said Gus Sauter, chief investment officer at Vanguard. While traditional indexing assigns companies into a fund based on ...

Charter Hall targets advisers with SMA

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2011
... underlying value while property values continue to rise. "The fund seeks to capitalise on this recovery by using active management to exploit market inefficiencies and buy high quality securities priced at a discount to their intrinsic value," said Richard ...

Indexing warning as ETFs surge

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... represent 16.4 per cent of Australian assets, up from 10.3 per cent from five years ago. Mercer believes that active management still wins out in the long term and that advisers should not overplay the ETF story. "This shift into term deposits and ETFs ...