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AXA IM global equity SmartBeta fund gets RIAA approval

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
... Australasia (RIAA) for its environmental, social and governance SmartBeta equity pooled fund - AXA IM ACWI SmartBeta Equity Fund. The Fund is designed to give Australian long term investors a more efficient way of capturing equity market beta, while ...

Higher recession risk creates opportunity in large miners: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... 1990, the tech boom of 2000 and the China boom of 2008. One area where the manager of the Lazard Select Australian Equity Fund is seeing opportunity is in mega-cap materials stocks BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. Falling commodity prices have seen these ...

Aussie income managers underperforming

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
... Investors planning for retirement have been warned to stick to fundamentals in the wake of new data showing Australian equity fund managers with an income objective have delivered below-market returns in recent years. Income funds covered by Lonsec returned ...

NZ Super Fund sells private equity investments

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2016
... has sold its investments in three offshore private equity funds. The investments were in Hellman & Friedman VII, JMI Equity Fund VII, and H.I.G Bayside Loan Opportunities Fund II. NZ Super Fund head of investments Fiona Mackenzie said: "These investments ...

SPIVA report paints sad picture for active management

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2016
The latest S&P Dow Jones Indices Versus Active Funds (SPIVA) report shows that the majority of Australian active managers underperformed their respective benchmarks over five-year periods. The one exception to this rule was Australian equity small- ...

Lazard lowers minimum investments on two funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 APR 2016
... lowered the minimum investments for two of its funds. Investors can now get access to the Lazard Emerging Markets Equity Fund and the Lazard Global Listed Infrastructure Fund for an initial outlay of $20,000. The move brings the funds in line with the ...

Active management tax effects erode investor returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
Any pre-tax alpha gained by active fund managers can be absorbed by detrimental tax effects according to new research from the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR). Continuing its research in active management, CIFR has examined the ...

QIC equities head joins Silicon Valley firm

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2016
... of equities at QIC from 2009 to 2015; prior to that, he was head of world equities at Suncorp. He has also held an equity fund analyst role at ANZ. Wood now joins Jacobi Strategies as managing director, Australia. Jacobi Strategies is a Silicon Valley ...

Super the bedrock for multi-sector funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
Australia's superannuation funds have again proven themselves as "the bedrock contributor" for positive flows in to multi-sector funds, according to the latest Morningstar data. The firm's fourth annual Global Asset Flows Report shows the AustralianSuper ...

ASIC and UK regulator sign fintech deal

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 24 MAR 2016
ASIC and the UK's Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have agreed to support innovative businesses or fintechs entering each other's respective markets. The goal is to reduce regulatory uncertainty for new Australian businesses entering the UK market ...