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CBA partners to finance clean energy

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 7 OCT 2016
The Commonwealth Bank has partnered with the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) to launch a new $100 million energy efficient equipment finance program to provide lower cost finance to Australian businesses and not-for-profits that meet certain ...

Passive investors probably not Marxist parasites: MSCI

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... investors use so-called passive instruments: to implement active asset allocation decisions and, through allocations to smart beta, as ways to correct or benefit from systematic mis-pricing. "In reality, institutional investors use passive allocations ...

Instos seeking smart carbon plays

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2016
... instos are looking for ways to complement their overall resources exposure and investing in energy efficiency companies is a smart carbon strategy that is outperforming in recent years. In Australia this week talking to several investors, Jenkyn-Jones ...

IFM active equity team wins first mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
... operational by 1 October 2016. Carter said the new products significantly increased the IFM Investors offering. "The team uses a 'Smart Quant' investment approach, which combines the power and breadth of a quantitative approach with the judgment and ...

Parametric keeps value factors in check

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 20 SEP 2016
... reposition themselves to complement a super fund's discrete factor approach. It says super funds face a real risk in seeking "smart beta" through factor investing because it may deliver a poorly-constructed active strategy or "dumb alpha." Bouchey said ...

Hostplus tripling venture capital exposure

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
... successful commercialisation of the ideas in which we invest," Sicilia said. "To date we've been a lucky country rather than a smart country. We've been able to mine our vast natural resources, iron and gold, and land that allows for sheep and beef. ...

Industry must collaborate to defeat cyber threats

KERRIE SYDEE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2016
... information security officer at Westpac Banking Group, Richard Johnson. Addressing a panel on the need for developing a cyber smart nation at the SINET61 Summit, Johnson said the only sensible solution to fighting cyber security was to work against the ...

Proliferation of global equity products meet investor demand

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2016
... since the previous year. In addition, the research demonstrated that investors continue to benefit from advances such as smart beta, SMAs, ETFs and mFunds. Lonsec's general manager of equities Peter Green says there is no immediate sign of the significant ...

VanEck resources ETF upgraded by Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
... the past 12 months and 22.17% over the past 6 months," VanEck Australia's managing director Arian Neiron said. MVR is a smart beta ETF which tracks the MVIS Australia Energy & Mining Index providing investors with exposure to the largest and most liquid ...

Alpha-beta split allows better asset allocation

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2016
... managers - three external and one internal across the real return global macro strategies. But you can also allocate in to smart or alternative beta, risk parity, CTAs or managed futures funds. These managers have CPI+ return objectives and align quite ...