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Montgomery to launch small company fund

HARRISON WORLEY  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 AUG 2019
Montgomery Investment Management will launch a small companies fund in a joint venture with fund managers Gary Rollo and Dominic Rose. The Montgomery Small Companies fund will launch on September 20 after Montgomery struck a joint venture deal that ...

Super sector needs to end culture war

KRISTI CHENG  |  FRIDAY, 16 AUG 2019
... maturely. He ended his reflections with what he calls the "increasing level of inappropriate activism" by union or fund managers leveraging their financial influence to pressure listed companies their super funds is invested in. Citing the example that ...

Sydney portfolio manager on best female fundies list

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 30 JUL 2019
... Sydney-based portfolio manager of an Aussie equities fund has earned a spot on Citywire's list of the top 30 female fund managers across the globe. Kate Howitt, the manager for Fidelity Australian Opportunities Fund since 2012, came in at 27th in ...

Fund managers lag on ESG

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 5 JUL 2019
Some of Australia's best-known and listed fund management companies are falling behind their ASX 200 counterparts in disclosing ESG factors about their companies, according to a new report. Magellan Financial, Pendal Group and Platinum Asset Management ...

Instos flex influence over investee companies

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
Superannuation funds and fund managers wield significant influence over capital allocation decisions in companies they invest in, research from Monash Business School finds. About 275 Australian institutional investors, the majority of which work in ...

Asset manager eyes Australian market

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2019
... assets under management and is headquartered in Chile with offices in New York and Buenos Aires. Brookvine offers fund managers services including fundraising, investor relations, fund administration, advisory and structuring. It has raised $12 billion ...

YouTube fundie woes continue

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... FCA has a view on the fees funds charge during a suspension, to which Bailey replied there is no requirement on fund managers to reduce or waive investment management fees during suspensions. "There are good arguments for waiving fees during a suspension ...

Chief economist update: Cash is King

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2019
... explains why despite low to very low cash rates, the latest Bank of America Merrill Lynch Global Research survey of fund managers found allocations to cash jumped to 5.6% from 4.6% in each of the past three months. At the same time, allocations to equities ...

Pension giant cuts tobacco

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUN 2019
... including the Nest Retirement Date Funds (which are similar to lifecycle super products in Australia). Nest's external fund managers are supporting the change, it said in a statement. "We have not taken this decision lightly but we don't think it makes ...

Advisers wary of ethical funds, launch own rating system

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
... would recommend the funds to ethically minded clients; the co-op averages that score to create its leaf rating. Fund managers are given an opportunity to comment on the rating their fund received, and based on those comments the co-op may alter their ...