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IFM Investors hits back at MP demanding probe

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2020
... clear. The industry-fund-owned manager invoked its international clientele and revenue streams to ask why other fund managers had not been asked to appear before the committee. "IFM is the only wholesale [sic] funds manager you have sought evidence from ...

Boutique to remediate clients

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2020
A fund manager will remediate clients in eight funds after a recent review of its management costs identified a unit pricing error. Alpha Fund Managers' investors in eight funds were charged the wrong fees between July, 2017 and January, 2020 for ...

Outsourced trading set to boom

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2020
... have the capability to trade from home and need to partner with an external party to help with trades. Boutique fund managers would also benefit from outsourced trading, Woodward said, as they may require some help and expertise in establishing execution ...

Fund managers adapt to market pain

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2020
Aussie equities fund managers steadily improved in performance relative to benchmark from January to March, according to an updated SPIVA Australia Scorecard from S&P. In January, only 21.6% of Australian equities (general category) funds beat the benchmarks ...

Industry funds pulled back to the pack

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2020
... than the RBA," Bardsley said. He said the RBA's quantitative easing is not "creating the volumes that institutional fund managers need" to de-risk and rebalance exposures and raise cash. "As a result we have seen a significant increase in buy/sell spreads ...

Performance analyst jobs hold steady in COVID-19

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... analyst with a custodian can allow for career transitions into multiple front-office roles at superannuation funds, fund managers and investment consulting," the report reads. According to Kaizen, an entry-level performance analysts can expect to be ...

HESTA awards investment data mandate

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... HESTA's middle and back offices and investment consulting providers, as well as the fund's more than 100 external fund managers. "Key features, including management of complex fund structures and extensive drill through and look through capabilities ...

Opportunity for the brave: High yield credit

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... a relatively illiquid asset in normal market environments and extremely illiquid in times of stress," he said. "Fund managers who manage assets in the space like to note that it is higher up in the capital structure than equity and therefore would have ...

Hedge fund with zero correlation to equities to launch

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2020
... been profitable but their correlations to equities have been stable, exactly as we designed," Norden said. "Some fund managers suffered when correlations changed during the recent sell-off but our trades all functioned as we had expected." To do this ...

Northern Trust touts new ESG tool to instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2020
... sides: via the superannuation fund's custody/fund accounting or by requesting portfolio compositions from external fund managers using PEEK-THRU. "Pressure came from the EU and APAC, where they are more focused on ESG. US is just starting to think about ...