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Australian Ethical to list on mFunds platform

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2015
... expertise of Australian Ethical's investment team and 20-year record in managing small cap stocks within its Australian Shares Fund (previously the Smaller Companies Trust). To allow more people to access the benefits of ethical investing, Australian ...

Crisis deepens for van Eyk Blueprint funds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 SEP 2014
... Macquarie to terminate a further nine portfolios that it acts as responsible entity for. Macquarie has axed the Australian Shares Fund, Absolute Australian Shares Fund, Smaller Companies Fund, Absolute International Shares Fund, Global Emerging Markets ...

Mercer's new retirement fund puts emphasis on capital growth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 24 JUN 2013
... designed to allow tax exempt investors of retirement age to maximise their after-tax returns. The Mercer Australian Shares Fund for Tax Exempt Investors is designed to maximise capital growth as well as dividend yield for tax exempt investors. "We know ...

Investors looking backwards: Mercer

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 JAN 2012
... finding it underperformed in global markets after rising 1.9% in the 2010 calendar year. In ranking the Australian shares fund manager results, Mercer found that despite poor returns in 2011, stock volatility did actually decline but that the difference ...

van Eyk adds UBS-HALO to the Blueprint Australian Shares Fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
The addition of the UBS-HALO Australian Share Fund to van Eyk's Blueprint Australian Shares Fund is part of plans to move more of the fund into concentrated, high conviction strategies, according to the company. Head of ratings at van Eyk, Matthew Olsen ...

Perennial lands Mercer mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 21 OCT 2011
... ranking system in constructing the final portfolio in line with our objectives for our Socially Responsible Australian Shares Fund," Andrew Howard, chief investment officer for Asia Pacific, Mercer told Financial Standard. Perennial Growth is a boutique ...

Fund managers beat the index but only just

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... yesterday. After a difficult three months of trade, Mercer's sector survey for July found that the median Australian shares fund manager outperformed the market by 0.2%, losing only 7.4% to July 3, compared to the S&P/ASX 300 Index which fell 7.6% over ...

Russell funds get stars

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUN 2011
... the FTSE ASFA Australia 200 Superannuation Index as its benchmark. The After Tax Fund uses the Russell Australian Shares Fund as its foundation, which has been running since 1997. "For this particular fund, portfolio manager Scott Bennett and tax consultant ...

van Eyk drops AXA Bernstein for Sigma

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... minimised allocation towards Integrity, Fidelity and Solaris after appointing a share of the Blueprint Australian Shares Fund to Sigma Funds Management. The fund, which currently has approximately $1.4 billion under management, was re-jigged after a ...

Russell fast track after-tax investing

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... will appeal to super funds focused on after-tax returns, not pre-tax performance. The Russell After-Tax Australian Shares Fund (for Superannuation Investors) applies both pre- and after-tax strategies, in many cases before trading has started to provide ...