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Pension fund giant mandates Fidelity

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JAN 2019
The $2 trillion Japanese pension fund has appointed Fidelity's asset management arm to manage passive domestic equities. The Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) appointed FIL Investments Japan and Resona Bank on December 26. Both will manage ...

Financial Standard unwrapped: Our top stories in 2018

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... superannuation startup Spaceship launched two investment products in April, under the name Spaceship Voyager. The funds - one passive and one "actively selected" - were designed to satiate the desires of its millennial members, who wanted to understand ...

FTSE Russell expands ESG research

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2018
... leader in sustainable investment for nearly two decades and has been supporting the growing demand for ESG integration into passive strategies. The partnership with Sustainalytics enables us to provide a greater selection of options and choice to meet ...

Australia's first active fixed income ETF goes live

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
... had interest from institutional clients for BNDS. This would be keeping in line with BetaShares low-cost Aussie equities passive ETF A200 which in August attracted a $114 million allocation from an institutional client and a roughly $60 million placement ...

Special Report: Hitting new ETF goals

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 16 NOV 2018
... income universe - indexed assets comprise only 10% - and fixed income ETFs make up less than 1%, she says. The size of the passive fixed income ETF market might seem infinitesimal in the grand scheme of things, but their impact, particularly on active ...

ETFs: Buy strategy not structure

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2018
... where investors were moving from unlisted managed funds to listed offerings. However it is much more than an active and passive switch. "An investor might move from an actively managed fund to a Vanguard managed fund, that's active to passive. But ...

ALP victory to have meaningful impact: Daintree

HARRISON WORLEY  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2018
... equity investor. "Our perception as professional investors is that many retail investors tend to take quite a 'hands off', passive view to their investments. Then when something happens, they react. Which precisely the wrong way of doing things," Tyler ...

Future Fund boosts alternatives assets

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... which are truly diversifying (such as hedge funds)," it said. The fund flagged it is transitioning to a "cheaper, more passive approach" in its listed equities portfolio. This is an area where manager skill is less evident, it said. Macquarie Investment ...

Macquarie, CFS top Aussie fund manager list

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2018
... while Australia represented 1.4%. The majority of total assets (77.6%) are still managed actively, while the share of passive assets grew from 19.5% to 22.4% in the last five years. WTW said the strengthening US dollar is generally dampening the growth ...

Under the hood of low-fee funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2018
... allocation and increased weightings to asset classes that have a higher prevalence of low cost structures such as ETFs and passive funds. "Investors need to be aware that these fundamental differences can impact relative performance between the groups ...