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EAM Investors wins first Australian mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
Pacific Current Group's specialist global small and micro-cap boutique manager, EAM Investors, has won its first Australian institutional mandate. IOOF Investments has added the fund manager's Emerging Markets Small Cap Strategy to its IOOF MultiMix ...

BlackRock launches smart beta ETF suite

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
BlackRock has launched four new exchange-traded funds in Australia, targeting minimum volatility and multifactor strategies. The iShares Edge Smart Beta products comprise the iShares Edge MSCI Australia Minimum Volatility ETF, the iShares Edge MSCI ...

Australian funds rank well on ESG

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Australian equity fund managers tend to rank higher than their global peers when it comes to incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their investment decisions, Lonsec Research has found. According to the researcher's newly ...

Dark pools effective at reducing volatility spikes: Liquidnet

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
Liquidnet research has shown that volatility of securities is reduced by over 103% in the minute before a block trade when using the firm's anonymous dark pool. The Liquidnet Block Study examined roughly 32,000 block trades - that is, trades executed ...

IFM active equity team wins first mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
IFM Investors' active equities team has won its first institutional mandate from an industry super fund. The $6.5 billion Mine Wealth + Wellbeing fund has awarded the firm's Australian Core Equities strategy its inaugural mandate. The exact size of ...

Parametric keeps value factors in check

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
Global asset manager and tax efficiency specialist Parametric is pitching to Australian superannuation funds with a factor-based investment strategy for global equities that targets the value factor. Parametric chief investment officer Paul Bouchey ...

AB fund receives rating upgrade

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2016
Lonsec has upgraded AllianceBernstein's (AB) Dynamic Global Fixed Income Fund to "Recommended". Launched in 2014, the fund is designed for investors with higher risk tolerances who want to achieve income returns exceeding those of bank bill rates. To ...

Regal named best Australian hedge fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2016
Regal Funds Management has been crowned Australia's best hedge fund for 2016 at an industry awards ceremony in Sydney last night. Gathering the hedge fund sector's best and brightest, the Hedge Funds Rock and Australian Hedge Fund Awards - now in its ...

Alpha-beta split allows better asset allocation

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
One of Australia's largest superannuation funds says it has strategically split its investment portfolio between alpha and beta to better monitor performance and asset allocation. Although not a new concept, First State Super has moved to an alpha and ...

Top pension funds slide for first time since GFC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 SEP 2016
Total assets of the 300 largest pension funds worldwide fell for the first time since the beginning of the global financial crisis, according to Willis Towers Watson research. The P&I/Willis Towers Watson global 300 report shows that in 2015, total ...