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Rest names chief investment officer

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2020
... officer, joining from Morningstar Investment Management where he has been responsible for the US$25 billion Americas mutual fund and managed portfolios operations. This is the first time the fund has had an investment lead for the whole fund and follows ...

Chief economist update: Premature easing will cost more lives, more rupiahs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2020
It was one of the first movers in the fight against containing the spread of infection from the coronavirus pandemic. On March 24, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi ordered one of the strictest lockdowns of any country in the world, warning that ...

Managed funds redemptions top US$62bn

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2020
... funds with suspended redemptions are a small part of the total landscape, representing only 0.11% of total global mutual fund assets of US$55 trillion at end of 2019. Redemption terms have been a focus for ASIC as well, as it asked managed funds to clarify ...

Pendal's product pipeline for 2020

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... in seed capital ($4.1 million was investment growth) into Global Opportunities OEIC, Global Income Builder OEIC and Mutual Fund. It also redeemed about $118.3 million in seed capital, following closure of the US SMID and Global Smaller Companies funds ...

Aussie funds bleed $4bn in March

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2020
Investors redeemed over $3.8 billion from local managed funds in April, in the largest monthly net outflows on record, according to Calastone. So far, November 2018 has been the only month with material net outflows in Australia as investors responded ...

Australian fund regulation below average: Morningstar

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 28 APR 2020
... funds face. As part of its biannual Global Investor Experience report, the research house assessed the experiences of mutual fund investors across 26 markets, assigning grades of top, above average, average, below average and bottom to each country. ...

AMP Capital shutters global equities fund for platform investors

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2020
Dwindling assets under management have forced AMP Capital to close a global equities fund for wholesale investors on platforms. AMP Capital's wholesale global equity - growth fund for platform investors (Class M) was closed last Friday. The decision ...

Mutual fund assets lose $1.3 trillion

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 MAR 2020
More than US$775 billion ($1.3 trillion) in assets were wiped out of mutual fund strategies in the US during February, representing a single-month decline of nearly 5%, according to Cerulli. The research found ETF assets also plunged in February, declining ...

Chief economist update: Cash splash

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 20 MAR 2020
"Whatever it takes and for however long it takes!" This is the collective battle cry of governments and central banks the world over as they try to calm nerves and get ahead of the coronavirus that's paralysed economic activity. Fiscal and monetary ...

Climate threat pushes Aussies to sustainability

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 FEB 2020
Mutual fund assets in sustainable investments surged 23% in 2019, as Aussie investors wake up to the "critical threat" of climate change. Singapore based research and consulting firm Cerulli Associates found that the sector recorded $1.2 billion in ...