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Gender diversity remains static, women still disadvantaged

ALLY SELBY  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAR 2020
... comes to gender diversity, the global fund industry looks much like it did 20 years ago: At the end of 2000, 14% of fund managers were women. And at the end of 2019, 14% of fund managers were women," it said. Some countries perform better than others ...

Fund managers driven to alternatives: Report

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2020
Fund managers are being pushed into allocating more of their portfolios towards alternatives, as traditional investments continue to provide low returns, according to a new Morningstar report. The Multi Sector Wrap report examines 78 multisector funds ...

How to lose a mandate

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 FEB 2020
... investors from around the globe in a bid to understand the relationships between institutional investors and their fund managers. Together, these investors have more than $482 billion in assets under management. Cyber security, a data breach or a significant ...

Push for more foreign investment

ELIZA BAVIN  |  FRIDAY, 7 FEB 2020
... the Productivity Commission, believe the benefits are negligible and only serve to benefit the visa holders and fund managers. The commission called for the scheme to be terminated back in 2016 after it was created by the Gillard government in 2012.

FPA calls for axe to fall on stamping fees

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JAN 2020
... four week targeted public consultation process on the merits of the current stamping fee exemption, which allows fund managers to pay commissions to advisers and brokers involved in the in capital raisings for listed-funds. FPA chief executive Dante ...

Stamping fees consultation kicks off

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
Treasury has announced a four-week consultation into "stamping fees" paid by fund managers to advisers and brokers for exchange-listed funds, as public scrutiny into the practice mounts. The Future of financial Advice (FoFA) reforms in 2013 put an end ...

VanEck launches first active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2020
... which will be subject to a Treasury consultation announced yesterday. "LIT structures are in the best interest of fund managers...We are saying there a lot of good income options in the ETF space," he said.

The ingredients of a successful fund manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
New research from Zenith has found that fund managers with bigger investment teams and specialist coverage responsibilities tend to outperform their peers but opening multiple offices around the world will not give you a performance edge. Zenith compared ...

New super fund targets millennials

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... today, after Financial Standard revealed its plans last week. The group insurer for the fund is Hannover Re and the fund managers mandated so far are Nanuk Asset Management and Alphinity. Aracon Superannuation is the trustee. Rainmaker analysis of the ...

Aussie share funds boast stellar 2019

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
... Australian Equities Researcher Yee Hou Seck said the fourth quarter was particularly strong for Australia's share fund managers. "Mercer's latest Australian Shares Investment Manager Performance Survey reveals that 2019's fourth quarter was the strongest ...