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MySuper funds redeem performance

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2020
... Vision Super as the top-performing MySuper product based on a single strategy. Its Super Saver balanced growth option returned 4.1% in the 12 months to August. BUSSQ (3.8%) and FES Super (3.6%) recorded solid results. In terms of the top-performing investment ...

GMO launches global equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2020
... since February, 2004 and is managed by long-standing GMO portfolio managers Tom Hancock, Ty Cobb and Anthony Hene. It has returned 9.15% p.a. since inception to S&P 500's 9.23% and MSCI World's 7.29%, as at August end. For the last three calendar years ...

BetaShares' Nasdaq ETF surpasses $1bn

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2020
... using the NDQ ETF to obtain a core allocation to global equities, with dynamic growth potential." The Nasdaq 100 ETF has returned 25.8% year-to-date, and has returned 22.4% per annum since its inception in May 2015 to the end of August. The fund has ...

AMP Capital Ethical Leaders loses another mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2020
... now around $595 million. The AMP Capital Ethical Leaders Balanced Fund charges a 1.15% per annum management fee and had returned 4.7% net of fees on a five year basis at June 30. Kristen Le Mesurier was portfolio manager for the fund, but she resigned ...

BNP Paribas AM CIO steps down

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... marketing and sales, and worked across different divisions before she was promoted to Asia-Pacific chief. Torres has returned to the UK and is now an independent consultant. Based in Hong Kong, Billiet reports to Sandro Pierri, the global head of client ...

Retail fund satisfaction drops

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2020
... said July 2020 was well into the period of reopening for most of Australia, although it was also the month Victoria was returned to a Stage 3 lockdown in response to a second wave of COVID-19. "Australia's superannuation funds have had a challenging ...

AMP tops worst-performing super funds list

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 22 SEP 2020
... (0.6% p.a.) topped the Fat Cat list, followed by six OnePath products, such as Select Leaders and OptiMix Balanced, which returned between 1.4% p.a. and 2.9% p.a. The best aggressive growth funds were: Prime Super's Alternatives (9% p.a.), Unisuper's ...

Contango approves new WCM strategy

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2020
... record", was a positive outcome for the company. The new strategy, the WCM Quality Global Growth Long Short Strategy has returned 23.5% per annum since its inception on 30 June 2014, outperforming the MSCI All Country World Index by an annualised 11.9% ...

Hedge funds in the green

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2020
... according to institutional research house eVestment, which found that thanks to August's results the average hedge fund had returned 2.21% since the beginning of the year. This is up from the -0.27% the industry had achieved in July following the financial ...

High performance funds significantly underperform: Research

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2020
... Australian Financials Sector ETF (-5% p.a.). That's compared to the benchmark S&P/ASX 200 Total Return Index, which returned 5.2% p.a. over the three-year period. The best performing active core funds included the Greencape Broadcap Fund (10.1% p.a.) ...