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Lazard AM brings Japanese equities fund to Australia

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2024
Lazard Asset Management has launched a Japanese equities fund to local investors. The Lazard Japanese Strategic Equity Fund invests in "undervalued" opportunities in Japanese equities, and aims to achieve a total return that exceeds that of the Tokyo ...

AI could see emerging markets flourish: Experts

MATTHEW WAI  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2024
... of investment "will always be uncertain" but insists that the market regime shift could be just around the corner. "EM equities have been in a more-than decade-long bear market relative to developed market stocks. With a caveat about the difficulty of ...

NZ Super Fund shines bright with standout return

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2024
... its passive Reference Portfolio benchmark (15.13%) - which reflects the results of a low-cost, passive portfolio of 80% equities and 20% fixed interest. But it has outperformed this benchmark by 1.46% per annum or $17 billion since inception. NZ Super ...

VanEck to launch defence ETF

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 9 SEP 2024
... Hannah said. VanEck said there are three reasons for investors to consider a defence allocation within a diversified equities portfolio, with the first being increased government spending in the sector. The ETF provider cited data from the Stockholm ...

Financial Standard wins Impact Award

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
... Capital took out the award for Australian Equity Fund Manager of the Year, while T. Rowe Price won the award for global equities. PIMCO was named Fixed Income Fund Manager of the Year, and Global X took home the gong for alternatives. In partner services ...

Global X's best three ideas for portfolio construction

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
... income purposes," Hitzeman said. He said the idea of a buy-write strategy is that an ETF provider buys the underlying equities of the ASX 200, and then writes covered calls on the equities. The provider sells the call options forward to a buyer, who ...

Macquarie AM launches emerging markets equity ETF

MATTHEW WAI  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
... fundamental, active solutions in a more nascent category within the ETF market." MAM deputy chief investment officer of equities and multi-asset, Linda Bakhshian, said: "The approach is grounded in bottom-up, fundamental analysis of individual companies ...

Melbourne adviser sentenced to 18 months' prison

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 SEP 2024
... Grimm also failed to advise his client that ASIC had sought the winding up of entities related to him, including Ostrava Equities, and that he was banned from providing financial services by order of the Federal Court. In sentencing Justice O'Connell ...

Schroders expands stable of global equity funds

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024
... Equity Alpha Fund was introduced to wholesale and institutional investors this week, a concentrated portfolio of global equities managed by co-head of equities Alex Tedder and portfolio manager, multi-regional equities Frank Thormann. The new fund looks ...

ASIC cancels AFSL of foreign exchange contracts issuer

ELIZA BAVIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 SEP 2024
... speculate in the change in value of an underlying asset, such as foreign exchange rates, stock market indices, single equities, commodities or crypto assets. ASIC found FXOpen AU's failure to comply with its core obligations as an AFS licensee warranted ...