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Macquarie tops Australian asset manager list

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 31 OCT 2017
... to 102, with US$147 billion in assets. The research showed that the top 20 asset managers worldwide - with BlackRock, Vanguard and State Street leading the pack - collectively grew their assets by 6.7% to US$34.3 trillion in 2016. WTW said that the growth ...

Janus Henderson recruits credit strategist

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2017
... instruments in credit specific and diversified fixed interest portfolios. Beginning his career as an investments associate at Vanguard, Kwee has more than 14 years' investments experience. Commenting on the new appointment, Janus Henderson head of Australian ...

Vanguard aims to defuse the active debate

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2017
New research from Vanguard argues that the decision to allocate to active or index strategies - or both - should be based on a systematic process, not emotions and personal preferences. Vanguard, which manages more than US$1 trillion in active money ...

Active the best way forward for super: Research

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2017
... idea that investment rankings are largely predictable, especially over five-year timeframes. His research, composed from Vanguard Australia data, analyses the performance of 728 actively managed funds across two five-year periods - to December 2011 and ...

Industry sentiment mixed: ETF spot poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 9 OCT 2017
... the largest ETP asset class holding a share of 43%, followed by international equities (41%) and fixed interest (7%). Vanguard had the highest funds manager inflow over the 12 months ($1.8bn), while BetaShares had the second highest inflow ($1bn). This ...

NZ manager launches retirement product

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
... in investment grade bonds and 45% in local and international shares. Investments are managed by Simplicity as well as Vanguard. The guaranteed income rates will increase with age, starting at 5% per annum if a member starts at age 65, increasing by 0.10% ...

Revisiting the active versus passive cage fight

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... active and index managers has a tendency to overshadow some essential tenets of portfolio construction, according to Vanguard investment specialist Mary McLaughlin. McLaughlin spoke at the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees Super Investment ...

US shares dominating other asset classes

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2017
... shares have delivered a 9.4% return per annum over the last 30 years, well ahead of other asset classes, according to Vanguard's 2017 Index Chart. Putting this in perspective, Vanguard said that an initial US shares investment of $10,000 made in 1987 ...

Young Aussies driving sharemarket

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2017
... top ten domestic holdings for Gen Z and Gen Y investors largely comprised of the big four, Telstra, A2 Milk Company, Vanguard Australian Share Index ETF and Evolution Mining. Meanwhile, Baby Boomers and Gen X investors largely opted for the big four ...

Big tech leads fintech optimism

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 AUG 2017
... 2016. However, they have been dwarfed by incumbents that have created their own robo-advisory offerings, such as the Vanguard Advisor platform, which had $47 billion in assets under management as of the end of 2016," a joint statement on the report said. ...