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Australia lax in fighting financial crime

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2017
Australia's passive response and disparate approach in combatting financial crime, particularly anti-money laundering, requires a more holistic approach, according to a panel of compliance and security experts. ANZ financial crime risk professional ...

Vanguard aims to defuse the active debate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2017
... outperforming managers, or the capacity to work with a trusted partner who can do the same. If not, one should allocate 100% to passive. If they do, then the decision to allocate to an appropriate active-passive mix can be further broken down into gross ...

UBS wins pensions mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
UBS Asset Management was awarded an $18 billion passive management mandate from a pool of UK local government pension schemes. The Local Government Pension Schemes ACCESS (A Collaboration of Central, Eastern and Southern Shires) pool - the combined ...

Asset managers tested, remain optimistic: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 6 OCT 2017
... overwhelming number (83%) forecast mergers and acquisition will take place in the next five years. Meanwhile, the rise of passive strategies will drive greater fee pressure on active managers. The upshot for active managers is to become "hyper-efficient ...

Asset managers must work on unique value

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2017
... potential over the index, he said. "It's imperative for asset managers to be cognisant of where active has advantages over passive (e.g., municipal bond, emerging markets equity), and instances where passive currently holds an advantage (e.g., US equity)," ...

Trusted advice solves investor confusion: Research

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... level concern them, when really they need to focus on the long term." The survey also pointed to confusion surrounding passive investments, with many investors lulled into a false sense of security and demonstrating unfounded beliefs in the strategy's ...

SPIVA again scores active versus passive debate

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 SEP 2017
... benchmarks over the 12 months to 30 June 2017. Describing itself as the "de facto scorekeeper of the ongoing active versus passive debate" since 2002, S&P said this year's scorecard tracked 731 Australian equity funds (across the large, mid and small ...

Passive investors excluded from small business tax cuts

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
Passive investment companies, including property and share investors, cannot access the lower company tax rate, the Government has confirmed. Following the release of draft tax legislation, Minister for Revenue and Financial Services Kelly O'Dwyer said ...

Revisiting the active versus passive cage fight

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... game that wasn't going to get resolved in 50 minutes on the Gold Coast." She noted that while she was representing the "passive" side of the debate, Vanguard actually manages more than US$1 trillion in active money, having launched its first active product ...

Passive versus active is crippling: QIC

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
Active and passive fixed income investing are complementary, not at logger-heads, and serve different purposes within portfolios and in different market conditions, according to QIC. In a new paper the investment management giant explores the debate ...