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Melbourne firm wins $1.1bn in mandates

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... Melbourne's MSC Group has been appointed to provide trustee and fund administration services to three Australian fund managers that are 50% owned by Oaktree Capital Management. Argyle Capital Partners, January Capital and Fortitude Investments Partners ...

Ratings house launches

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... Atchison Consultants. Founder and director Angela Ashton said a key difference Evergreen Ratings offers is that fund managers will pay a fee to have their investment vehicles and products rated, and the reports will be made available to financial advisers. ...

Cashwerkz fits out bond service

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2020
... Income, Cashwerkz launched a funds incubator named Fund Income to support new managers entering the market. Aspiring fund managers will leverage Cashwerkz technology, talent and infrastructure assets to establish their fund, with the business taking ...

Integrity Life raises $43m

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
Institutional fund managers have pumped $43 million into life insurance startup Integrity Life to help it expand and build out its digital offering. The majority of the capital came from Schroders Investment Management based in Switzerland, Leadenhall ...

Aussie fundie receives global recognition

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
An Australian fund manager has made the best female global fund managers list for the second year in a row. Fidelity International portfolio manager Kate Howitt was ranked 11th on UK publication Citywire's list of the top 30 female fund managers ...

Active manager performance slumps: SPIVA

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
The coronavirus has wiped out the performance gains of active fund managers against their respective benchmarks, according to the latest SPIVA scorecard. S&P Dow Jones Indices' SPIVA scorecard, touted as the "de facto scorekeeper of the ongoing active ...

Fidelity launches global fund

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... per annum and is benchmarked against the MSCI World Mid Cap Index. The minimum initial investment is $25,000. The fund managers said there is a lot more to global investing than the mega-household names like Apple and Amazon. "The small- and mid-cap ...

Advisers shift to ETFs from active managers: VanEck

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2020
... smart beta strategies in 2021 in response to concerns over actively managed funds. "The underperformance by active fund managers is contributing to the shift to ETFs, as well an increased awareness of ETFs in the financial services community," Neiron ...

Group risk inflows fall 15%

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2020
... reporting period as well as single premiums. This allows life insurance companies to be assessed in a similar fashion to fund managers, it said, in terms of "new inflows".

ASIC cleans up 'cash plus' funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... rely on product labels, then it is difficult for funds to compete on a fair basis - disadvantaging both compliant fund managers and end-consumers,' she said.