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Funds SA portfolio manager leaves, team to expand

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
... is bidding farewell to a long-standing portfolio manager who looked after its alternatives portfolio. Clive Boyce managed Funds SA's private equity, infrastructure and opportunistic property investments, starting in 2005. He stepped away from full-time ...

ASIC provides relief for naked short selling

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2018
... expire. ASIC said the new relief and modifications allow ETF market makers to make naked short sales in ETFs and managed funds in the course of making a market in units in those funds. The corporate regulator added the relief would facilitate market ...

Fidelity launches active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2018
... Fidelity's foray into active ETFs comes at a time when an increasing number managers look to the ASX to launch actively-managed funds. This year alone, five new actively managed ETFs have entered the market. There are now a total of 13 actively managed ...

BlackRock outlines ETF plans for Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... the market so far this year. Fellow top-10 ETF issuer BetaShares joined forces with Legg Mason to launch actively managed funds. Yet, the take up of active ETFs has been slow. In the 13 years since the first actively managed ETF started trading on the ...

Blue Sky refunds $4.1m overcharge

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... expenses. Blue Sky told the ASX it was in the process of rectifying related third-party fees allocated to its close-end managed funds. This excludes any impact on institutional mandates or funds that include the Strategic Australian Agriculture Fund ...

SMSFs seek offshore diversification

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2018
SMSF investment in international managed funds, ETFs and direct shares continues to climb as exposure to cash and term deposits drops. Latest analysis from SuperConcepts shows allocations to international investments rose by 1.3% in the 12 months to ...

Glut of underperformance in managed funds: Research

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2018
Nearly eight-in-ten managed funds in Australia failed to hit benchmark returns over a 10-year horizon, according to new analysis by InvestSMART. The researchers modelled Morningstar data for 5297 manager funds that have a track record of 10 years. They ...

ASIC extends relief to foreign financial services firms

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2018
... regime for foreign firms servicing wholesale clients in Australia. This included investment banks and wholesale managed funds. ASIC said its approach would provide it with a broader range of tools to regulate the activities of foreign providers in Australia ...

Contrarian manager enters super sector

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 17 SEP 2018
... advisers an ability to invest superannuation and retirement funds across a bank-free investment menu of about 60 managed funds with a prominent focus on fee transparency. Allan Gray Australia chief operating officer J.D. de Lange said the offering was ...

SMSF cash allocation dips

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2018
... add international shares is strong among SMSFs who often use a core portfolio of Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) or managed funds for diversification, then add high conviction individual stocks such as Facebook, Amazon, Apple, Netflix, Google or Berkshire ...