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Franklin Templeton shutters fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2021
Franklin Templeton Investments is winding up its retail Australian Equity Fund, as asset growth lags. The fund was terminated on June 16, with returns of money to investors expected by July 31. "FTIA have determined that based on the current low level ...

BlackRock rejigs Aussie shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 7 JUN 2021
... Concentrated Industrial Shares strategy. Effective June 1, the fund was renamed to BlackRock High Conviction Australian Equity Fund. The strategy has about $700 million in total assets, of which about $200 million are in the D class. BlackRock also dropped ...

Yarra completes acquisition

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2021
Yarra Capital Management has completed the acquisition of Nikko Asset Management's Australian business, which was announced on March 2. Yarra will soon revive Nikko AM's former name Tyndall Investment Management, which was removed in September 2014 ...

Changes on Lazard Aussie equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAR 2021
Lazard's Select Australian Equity Fund has hired a new investment analyst, while a co-portfolio manager transitions away from the role. The $125 million fund has been co-managed by Rob Osborne, Phillip Hofflin, Warryn Robertson and Aaron Binsted ...

Perpetual reports $2.7bn in net outflows

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 22 JAN 2021
Perpetual's strategies saw $2.7 billion in net outflows in the December quarter, taking its total assets to $89.2 billion. The outflows were primarily from the institutional channel at $2.6 billion, while about $700 million came out of the intermediary ...

Global equities continue to soar: Report

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2021
Global equities fared better than Australian equities in the three years to September on a risk adjusted-basis, a new RMetrics report finds. Rainmaker's quarterly RMetrics report looked at Australian and global shares across 270 products. On a risk-adjusted ...

Acadian reduces fees

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 DEC 2020
... base fees, all performance fees have also been removed. "As a result of the changes, the Acadian Wholesale Australian Equity Fund is now offered at the lowest fee for an active Australian equities manager on the FirstChoice menu," Acadian said. Acadian ...

Pengana shutters income-focused fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2020
... been around since August 2017 and was launched as an income-oriented alternative to Pengana's flagship Australian Equity Fund after Pengana merged with Hunter Hall. However, this fund aimed to invest in companies with underlying cash earnings yields ...

Active manager performance slumps: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
The coronavirus has wiped out the performance gains of active fund managers against their respective benchmarks, according to the latest SPIVA scorecard. S&P Dow Jones Indices' SPIVA scorecard, touted as the "de facto scorekeeper of the ongoing active ...

High performance funds significantly underperform: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
New research from Rainmaker Information has found that high performance Australian equity funds significantly underperformed their benchmark over the three years to June 2020. The median high performance fund underperformed its benchmark by 300 basis ...