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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 ...

Future Fund annual return 'very strong'

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 SEP 2024
... "As we have explained, our portfolio is now more robust to these events with relatively low exposure to fully priced equities, low exposure to interest rates and a range of inflation hedges in place. "In this environment, I consider the annual return ...

CFS reviews Ironbark mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2024
... former investment team left to set up a new Pinnacle Investment Management affiliate. Upon receiving news the global equities team will leave RLAM to join Pinnacle in May, CFS told investors that it instructed RLAM to manage its assets on a "care and ...

Acadian AM launches two new credit strategies

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 SEP 2024
... the US. "Research shows that investors are well-served to have an allocation to government bonds, corporate bonds, and equities, rather than focusing on one asset class or a duo of asset classes," Richardson said. Both the Global High Yield and US Investment ...