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Market Vectors QUAL ETF added to two platforms

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2015
... companies based on MSCI's Quality fundamentals, this ETF gives investors a portfolio of international equities with historically strong performance and defensive characteristics. QUAL also gives Australian investors exposure to sectors where opportunities ...

Administrator buys Asia-Pacific hedge fund business

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 OCT 2015
... said. The sale to FundBPO marks Alter Domus' exit from hedge fund administration in Asia. The two companies have not historically competed but are in the same Hong Kong office building and use the same technology platform. MainstreamBPO's statement said ...

Lazard AM launches global equities fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 23 OCT 2015
... into account. "We aim to reduce the uncertainty in global equity markets by only investing in companies that have historically shown higher revenue certainty," Robertson said. "For us, this predictability means they are easier to forecast and therefore ...

Towers Watson wins public sector fund mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 16 OCT 2015
... advice to more than 1000 institutional investors globally, with assets in excess of $2 trillion. WA Super, which historically was for employees in local government, is a public offer fund with more than 44,000 members and manages more than $2.5 billion ...

Government debt is not bad: Sicilia

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... market is saying to the Australian government today is they are prepared to lend to the Australian government at a historically low interest rate of 2.5% for a ten year period. This implies that a market believes we're a good credit risk. It implies ...

Global Financial Inclusion winners announced

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
... recognise innovative, sustainable, scalable strategies that help increase access to financial services by people who historically have not had access to them. The Wall Street Journal invited nonprofit and for-profit enterprises from around the world ...

Super funds act to reassure members

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
... inexpensive against most measures, and we believe they are likely to remain supported by the current economic backdrop and historically low interest rates." Stevens said super members should be the judge when they soon receive individual super statements ...

Indigenous super on Canberra agenda

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... chief executive, Stephen Rowe, said awareness levels about the issues indigenous people face in the super system have historically been low. "One of the recommendations from the day [summit] was that funds need to develop a general policy statement and ...

BlackRock likes Japan, Europe

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 10 AUG 2015
... 18%. This is despite that over 40% of companies in Japan are still trading below their price to quote." Estes said historically there had been a lot of the resistance in investing in Japanese equities because companies were seen as poor stewards of capital. ...

MySuper fee savings can be doubled

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2015
... under management. Comparing investment costs across funds, Minifie noted that the most expensive asset classes have historically produced the best returns. But within those asset classes, the most expensive funds had a tendency to underperform. To reduce ...