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Global equities fund purges tobacco, fossil fuels

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2018
An international equities fund that holds about $300 million of Aussie insto money is purging itself clean of all investments in tobacco and fossil fuels. Vontobel is a Swiss asset manager with $167 billion in assets under management. About 11.4% of ...

Pengana LIC profitable again

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 AUG 2018
Pengana's listed investment company posted solid profits for the financial year, springing back from last year's losses of $23 million. Pengana International Equities (PIA) raked in a total investment income of $40 million, up 260% over the ...

New fund to invest in "clean disruption" tech

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2018
An investment platform led by former Macquarie bankers has launched a new thematic fund that will invest in listed companies that produce and utilise clean disruption technology. AtlasTrends was founded in 2015. Since then, two of its three funds have ...

ESG bond portfolio opens to Aussie investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2018
A Scottish manager is offering a new ESG fixed income fund to institutional investors in Australia, beginning with $135 million in assets under management. The Cameron Hume Global Fixed Income ESG Fund will hold securities from issuers that the specialist ...

Aussie instos buy ex-US value story

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 26 JUL 2018
The top US-based international equities fund manager for 2017 believes value stocks are best found outside its home nation. Rated by Morningstar's US office as the top international stock fund manager last year, Causeway Capital dedicates its recent ...

Family offices maintain equity allocations: Study

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2018
Latest research shows less than one-third of family offices are using quantitative models to determine asset class allocations and position sizes. At the same time, equity allocations remain unchanged. These are the key takeaways from the most recent ...

VanEck ETF receives ethical tick

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 JUL 2018
A VanEck ETF has been given one of the highest ethical ratings by the Responsible Investment Association Australasia (RIAA). VanEck's MSCI International Sustainable Equity ETF (ESGI) was certified 'ethical' by RIAA according to the strict ...

Former Magellan research head joins boutique

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2018
Former Magellan portfolio manager and head of research Nikki Thomas is joining a boutique manager. Thomas is joining Alphinity Investment Management as a global portfolio manager. The firm is partly owned by Challenger's boutique business Fidante. ...

Chief economist update: Shanghai's drop is China's problem, the yuan's slide is everyone's

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2018
The Shanghai Composite index's drop into bear market territory may have elicited some negative Trump thoughts, but China's response - through the accompanying depreciation of the yuan may have been "I'm taking you with me." Such is the ugliness ...

Chief economist update: Submerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2018
When Fed chief Jerome Powell tried to explain the US yield curve's flattening as a function of rising short rates because of the rate hikes (and expectations for more) and a smaller lift in the long-term yields because of safe-haven buying, I questioned ...