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Retirees should expand asset classes

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
Sticking to limited asset classes post-retirement may not prioritise income returns and potentially leave retirees with the burden of running out of money. This was a key message from Legg Mason's 2015 Retirement Income Symposium where Martin Currie ...

Star global equity manager to launch in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2015
... partnered with the firm to help it gain a foothold with ratings agencies and institutional clients. The Marsico Global Equity fund has returned an annualised 19.64% in the five years to 31 July, comprehensively beating the benchmark's 15.22% per annum. ...

Monash absolute return fund goes retail

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... exposure to an absolute return Australian equity capability. The fund is managed by former head of UBS's Australian equity fund Simon Shields and by Shane Fitzgerals, formerly an analyst at J.P.Morgan. The fund has returned 15.8% per annum after fees ...

Private equity shift keeping investors busy

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
The private equity market is busier than it was 18 months ago and there are opportunities to deploy capital sensibly in the market, according to IFM Investors head of private capital, Steven Lipchin. Speaking at the Australian Institute of Superannuation ...

FEATURE: Managed accounts - more than meets the eye

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... they haven't used equities before," he says, "because they're really seeing it as a substitute for a unitised Aussie equity fund. But that's a very narrow view of what managed accounts can do. "There's a lot of value left on the table." The next step ...

Tempo gets Lonsec rating

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
Tempo Asset Management has received its first rating from Lonsec for its Global Equity Fund. Lonsec cited Tempo's strategy as "heavily grounded in academic research, and Lonsec considers the investment team to have a strong pedigree in translating academic ...

Perpetual wins RE mandate with seven funds

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... Fund, Aviva Investors' Multi-Strategy Target Return Fund, AQR Style Premia Trust, Harding Loevner Emerging Markets Equity Fund, Morgan Stanley's Global Properties Securities Fund, Tipalea's Retail Income Fund - Marian, and the Monash Absolute Investment ...

Crowd equity funding, the Ashley Madison of finance

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2015
If Ashley Madison users made adultery cheaper and easier, what's holding crowd equity funding from doing the same with financial services? The Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR) has recommended that crowd equity funding should be ...

BetaShares launches two new funds

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2015
... exchange-traded funds, both targeted at US equities. According to BetaShares' statement, the BetaShares Geared US Equity Fund - Currency Hedged fund will "maintain exposure to "the 500 largest securities listed in the US, weighted by market capitalisation," ...

AMP Capital grabs $205m Port Hedland airport

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... to invest a further $40 million to redevelop the airport during the next five years. AMP Capital's Infrastructure Equity Fund will take a 44% stake in the asset, AMP Capital's Core Infrastructure Fund will hold a further 6% and the remaining 50% will ...