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Female fund managers boast 1.2% alpha

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAR 2024
... Stevanovic, Yarra Capital Management portfolio manager and director Katie Hudson, and First Sentier Investors head of Australian small and mid-cap companies Dawn Kanelleas. The trio scored highly on the analysts' People rating, one of three assessment ...

Spheria mulls converting emerging companies LIC

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2024
Spheria Emerging Companies (SEC) has floated a conditional proposal allowing shareholders to exchange their shares for units in the Spheria Australian Smaller Companies Fund. This follows SEC consistently trading below its net tangible asset (NTA) per ...

Stockspot launches two options

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 27 OCT 2023
... risk-adjusted returns. About 13% is allocated respectively to Vanguard's Australian Shares High Yield ETF and MSCI Australian Small Companies ETFs, and SPDR's S&P/ASX 200 Resources ETF and Global Dividend ETF. Topaz Income's grossed-up income ...

Blackwattle to take over Watermark fund

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 23 OCT 2023
... merits of the fund's strategy." This will be Blackwattle's fifth investment portfolio. The others include the Australian Small Cap Quality, Mid Cap Quality, Large Cap Quality and Long-Short 130/30 Quality funds.

Global small caps outperform Aussie counterparts: SSGA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023
... the MSCI World Small Caps Index has yielded an 8.39% annual return over the last 22 years, outperforming the Australian small caps index by 2.9%. Additionally, global small caps experienced 5.9% earnings growth and showed less market volatility, whereas ...

New fund targets 'blue chips of tomorrow'

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023
... fund (SMSF) investors with the launch of a new small caps fund. Investing in the 'blue chips of tomorrow', the Australian Small Companies Fund has been developed after the manager identified attractive small companies in the process of running its Absolute ...

abrdn sells local trustee business

CHLOE WALKER  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUN 2023
... Fund, abrdn Multi-Asset Income Fund, abrdn Global Corporate Bond Fund, abrdn Global Risk Mitigation Fund, SGH Australian Small Companies Fund and the SGH Ex-20 Australian Equities Fund. The move reflects abrdn's decision to move from internal trusteeship ...

Aussie small caps, property funds in the red

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUN 2023
Australian small cap and property investors experienced a rough 12 months of disappointing performance as macroeconomic conditions batter returns that ended up well in the red. Rainmaker's Wholesale managed funds April report shows that the property ...

Macquarie AM wins manager of the year: ILAs

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
... Vertium Asset Management Vertium Equity Income Fund Small Cap First Sentier Investors First Sentier Wholesale Australian Small Companies Fund ESG U Ethical U Ethical Australian Equities Trust - Wholesale International Equities Active Core Ironbark Asset ...

The Australian small-cap conundrum: VanEck

CASSANDRA BALDINI  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUN 2023
Australian investors have traditionally been attracted to Australian small caps, yet locally, the asset class has consistently underperformed when compared to its global counterpart. A new research paper released by VanEck titled Global small-caps ...