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Betashares previews NZ PIE fund offering

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2023
... Fund, and the Betashares Australian Investment Grade Coprorate Bond Fund (NZD hedged). It marks the first time the fund manager will have launched investment solutions outside of Australia and follows its 2021 decision to set up a local office in Auckland. ...

Don't discount Vietnam: Dragon Capital

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 22 MAY 2023
... around $374 billion, and in terms of the liquidity, the turnover is almost $151 million per day. According to VEIL fund manager Thao Ngo Thanh, Vietnam's government shows strong determination to achieve its GDP growth target of 6.5% for 2023 and ...

Vanguard restructures retail unit, creates executive roles

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
... Personal Investor businesses, appointing two executives to newly created roles to help lead the merged retail units. The fund manager will merge the two retail divisions comprising superannuation and non-superannuation offerings. Renae Smith will become ...

BlackRock orders staff four days in office

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
The global fund manager is mandating all employees to return to the office for four days from September this year. BlackRock Australia confirmed reports that the new policy affects all 19,000 staff members living in more than 30 countries. BlackRock ...

Boutique co-founder jumps to AustralianSuper

ELIZABETH FRY  |  FRIDAY, 19 MAY 2023
... Equities Fund and the Blue Orbit Global Small Cap Systematic Equities Fund. The Melbourne-based boutique small-cap fund manager was formed in 2018 by Talmage and two colleagues from IFM Investors - Adam Randall and Julie Andrews. Randall was forced to ...

Australia lags in global fund disclosure: Morningstar

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 18 MAY 2023
... report said. "If a superannuation fund were to invest in an external bond fund, it need only disclose the name of the fund manager, obscuring whether the investment was in Australian government debt, emerging-market bonds, and so on. If the external ...

Absolute-return bond funds fail ambitious returns: Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAY 2023
An analysis of absolute-return bond fund managers found that they have "ambitious" returns as only one in seven strategies meet their objectives. The Morningstar research found that most absolute-return bond managers will not always provide positive ...

Adviser PI premiums up 40%: APRA

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023
The cost of professional indemnity insurance increased at least 40% for financial advisers since 2015, a new report from APRA shows. Reviewing claims trends and affordability of public liability and professional indemnity insurance in Australia, the ...

GAM shareholders challenge acquisition

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2023
An investor group that controls 8.4% of Swiss fund manager GAM is challenging its proposed acquisition by Liontrust Asset Management. Last week, GAM announced it had agreed to be taken over by Liontrust, in a deal that would create a $100 billion fund ...

Liontrust, GAM to create $100bn fund manager

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAY 2023
... Liontrust is offering CHF0.6723 for one GAM share and is willing to pay about CHF107 million ($180.2m) for the smaller fund manager. The transaction includes offering GAM shareholders 9.4 million new ordinary shares in Liontrust in which they will be ...