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Alternatives managers celebrated at annual event

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2017
... Investment Fund of the Year, with the fund also taking out the award for Best Long Short Equity Fund and Macquarie's Pure Alpha Fund being recognised as the Best Market Neutral Fund. Other winners on the night include the Tribeca Global Natural Resources ...

Revisiting the active versus passive cage fight

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... outperforming managers. If not, one should allocate 100% to passive; if yes, one should then ask key questions about gross alpha expectation and risk tolerance prior to finding an adequate active-passive mix. "In this debate, everyone wants to be on ...

The disconnect at the heart of financial services

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
Many investment professionals are fundamentally disconnected from the true value of their industry - and their firms suffer as a result. This is the conclusion reached by State Street Global Advisors head of portfolio strategists Asia-Pacific Jonathan ...

Infocus subsidiary adds to multi-manager suite

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 AUG 2017
... Infocus Wealth Management expanded its multi-manager suite through an investment in an ESG-aligned Australian equities fund. Alpha Fund Managers, which also recently partnered with Investors Mutual and Folkestone, invested in Australian Ethical's Australian ...

UK manager partners for Aussie distribution

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 AUG 2017
A UK asset manager specialising in delivering alpha through environmentally-friendly investments is partnering with an Australian business to market its capabilities to wholesale investors in Australia and New Zealand. Osmosis Investment Management ...

Boutique manager selects A-REIT and small-cap specialists

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUL 2017
Alpha Fund Managers, the funds management subsidiary of Infocus Wealth Management, has enlisted a further two funds to its multi-manager suite. The first addition is the Investors Mutual Limited (IML) Small Cap Fund, which aims to deliver consistent ...

AMP Capital grows infrastructure team

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUL 2017
... assets such as the rail and highway networks. Prior to that, she spent 15 years at passenger trains and locomotives company Alpha Trains and its predecessor company where she held a variety of roles across business development, procurement and corporate ...

Quantifeed launches portfolio for car lovers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 JUL 2017
Investment and robo-advice platform provider Quantifeed has created a model portfolio that taps the growing global industry of driverless cars. The model portfolio comprises companies that are leading the development of self-driving cars, including ...

OC Funds Management wins mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 6 JUL 2017
A multi-manager appointed OC Funds Management to oversee its micro-cap strategy. Melbourne-based Alpha Fund Managers appointed OC to help deliver long-term capital growth by investing in Australian and New Zealand companies with a market capitalisation ...

The challenge of finding true active management

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
... achieve," Hall said. Third, he added, it's important to consider how portfolio managers are paid: whether on revenue or alpha generated. As Hall put it: "None of our portfolio managers are paid to gather assets." Finally, he said, investors have to consider ...