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Australia's fastest growing investment managers

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
A Chicago fund manager tops the list of the 50 fastest-growing investment managers that raise assets from Aussie investors, according to Rainmaker Research. William Blair, whose Sydney office is led by Alexander Rolfe, swelled its FUM from just $7 million ...

Bearish sentiment bites Aussie investors

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 30 JAN 2020
Aussie investors have swapped the bull for the bear, as macroeconomic and geopolitical tensions weigh heavily on high hopes for a repeated 2019. That's according to the latest research from Investment Trends, which found that investor sentiment ...

Charles Schwab reverses out of Australia again

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 19 AUG 2019
The American investing giant is shutting down its Sydney office less than two years after it came back to Australia for round two, according to a letter sent to investors. Charles Schwab's Frenchs Forest based office led by managing director John-Paul ...

BetaShares launches FTSE 100 ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUL 2019
BetaShares has launched a new exchange-traded fund that will track the 100 largest UK companies traded on the London Stock Exchange. It started trading on the ASX this morning with the ticker code F100. The passive ETF will track the market cap weighted ...

ETFs cross $50bn, fixed income leads

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUL 2019
Aussie investors were keen on fixed income ETFs but cooled off on currency and commodities ETFs in the first half, as strong inflows and buoyant markets pushed the total FUM over the $50 billion mark. ETFs attracted $4.4 billion in net inflows in the ...

Ironbark, Zurich shutter funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2019
Ironbark Asset Management and Zurich Investments are shutting down three funds after the Sydney boutique managing them said it will stop asset management operations in July. Denning Pryce managed about $270 million for Aussie investors in alternative ...

Melbourne boutique hires portfolio manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2019
A $2.5 billion Melbourne-based boutique has hired a new portfolio manager from a family office as it builds out its global capability. Ben Wang will work on Jamieson Coote Bonds' Global Bond Fund which opened to Aussie investors earlier this month ...

Arming human traders for big-ticket trades

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2019
A new trading software is aiming to make life easier for asset managers trading large chunks of Australian equities, ETFs or futures. Liquidnet's new software, called Discovery, aims to give human traders the same level of analytics as accessible to ...

VanEck drops fees on ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 JAN 2019
Australia's first China A-shares ETF has knocked 12bps off its annual management fees, after a decision taken by the board in the United States. The VanEck Vectors ChinaAMC CSI 300 ETF (ASX: CETF) will now charge 0.60% instead of the 0.72%. The ...

IRESS lead moves to Chi-X

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 10 JAN 2019
Chi-X has snapped up IRESS's head of institutional and online trading services as it builds its team. Adrian Fyffe was appointed to the role of business development executive at Chi-X just before the holidays. He has over 10 years of experience ...