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Investment analysts overpaid and mostly redundant: Moore

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 3 MAR 2016
... why do you need a team of analysts to track an index? It's because it's the first thing external people ask. Big asset managers pay these guys a fortune and they don't do anything," he said. "At any one time there're only a few areas of the market that ...

Super funds losing billions to fossil fuels

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2016
... by being forced to invest in companies that contradict their values." Market Forces cites global reports about asset managers recently divesting from coal, including the California State Teachers Retirement Fund and Allianz. The activist group has also ...

Risks are overstated: AUI

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... still plenty of opportunities to make good investments, according to Australian Unity Investments' joint venture asset managers. At a briefing in Sydney, Wingate Asset Management chief investment officer Chad Padowitz said while there is a lot of focus ...

Nikko AM selects new reporting tool

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... sales and marketing director Simon Cornwell said the firm was thrilled to be working with one of Japan's largest asset managers, and sees this as a stepping stone to the Japanese market. "The latest VRS GUI is multilingual, including Japanese, enabling ...

Vanguard tells investors to watch what they pay

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2016
... amid a January market route, Vanguard group chairman and chief executive Bill McNabb has hit back. Super funds, asset managers, economists and academics alike have said investors must expect lower returns in the future than they have been used to in ...

Financial services among top taxpayers

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 18 DEC 2015
... $40 billion company tax bill in 2014. Rainmaker estimates financial services firms including banks, insurers and asset managers listed in Australia's top 100 tax paying businesses contributed more than $12 billion in company taxes during the 2014 financial ...

ETF businesses bullish on growth prospects

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 17 DEC 2015
... with 34% predicting net inflows of more than 20%. Continuing gains in market share from both traditional active asset managers and passive mutual funds, increasing ETF allocations from institutional investors, and innovative product development were ...

Governance becoming key investor concern

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 27 NOV 2015
... good corporate governance as driving investment performance. Further to this, 92% of participants indicated that asset managers should engage with companies on issues of governance. Other areas of concern for investors were board diversity and succession ...

UK regulator targets conflicts in investment consulting

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 NOV 2015
... next year assessing what effect investment consultants have on competition for institutional asset management; how asset managers compete to deliver value; and, whether asset managers are motivated and able to control costs along the value chain. In ...

Multi-asset funds rated high but risk disappointment

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... effort to manage investor expectations." Zenith head of multi-asset and income research Andrew Yap stated that multi-asset managers "are most at risk of 'returns disappointment'." The Zenith report concluded that "in a relative context, multi-asset managers ...