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PM Capital wins Zenith award

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
Zenith has named PM Capital the best fund manager for international equities - alternatives. At the 2015 Zenith Fund Awards, PM Capital's Global Companies Fund was recognised for its 17-year track record and experienced investment team. "The Global ...

Super returns fall sharply in August

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2015
... for balanced funds. Despite the overall SelectingSuper index's fall to 6.5%, the index was sustained by international equities that returned 28% in the year to August 2015 buoyed by the 31% drop in the Australian Dollar against the US dollar. That return ...

SPIVA report shows most active managers beaten by index again

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2015
... in this segment over the longer-term. Only 29.17% of active managers underperformed over five years. In international equities 67.31% underperformed the S&P Developed Ex-Australia LargeMidCap Index over one year, compared with 80.58% as of December 31 ...

ETF flows up despite market underperformance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2015
... Exchange traded funds (ETFs) saw positive flows in August despite overall negative returns from Australian and international equities. Total net flows into ETFs in August 2015 were $360 million, about half the net flows that the sector had seen during ...

More Macquarie advisers flock to Shaw

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2015
... join the firm. "Shaw and Partners has established itself as a business with expertise in both domestic and international equities/funds, research, cash business and funds platforms," he explained. "These are all of the highest quality and the business ...

Vanguard to launch international fixed income ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
... to the median return of bonds being significantly higher than other asset classes (including Aussie and international equities and Australian property) during the worst decile of monthly Australian equity returns from April 1990 to now. "When Australian ...

PROFILE: Magellan chief investment officer Hamish Douglass

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... offices in Auckland, Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne, Newport Beach and New York, at a time when other local international equities managers have found it tough going. It also has an enviable grip on the adviser market - some 10,000 of them invest in at ...

BetaShares launches two new funds

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... meanwhile, is designed to negatively correlate with US share market returns so as to protect against declines. "International equities were the most popular ETP product category in the first half of 2015, with around $1.2 billion of net inflows in the ...

Cameron Harrison added to platforms

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2015
... Powerwrap platform. The model, which the investment team have managed since it was set up in 2007, is an international equities model comprising the best-managed businesses listed on either the FTSE All-Share (UK) or the S&P 1500 Composite Index (US). ...

MySuper impacts AMP investment revenue

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... dramatically. There was a slight increase in fixed interest and drop in cash as a share of overall assets. International equities increased year on year from 19% to 23%. Industry funds have lower AUM in cash and fixed interest (27% compared to 33% overall) ...