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Sequoia launches two specialist retail products

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2016
Sequoia Financial Group has launched two new structured products for retail investors. The first, Sequoia Accelerated Return Units - Series 1 gives exposure to Tesla Motors, the US electric car and energy storage company; the second, Sequoia Launch ...

Investors missing healthy returns amid bond fears

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 AUG 2016
The fear of negative interest rates keeping retail investors out of bond markets isn't just overlooking the defensive role of the asset class within portfolios, it's also leaving a surprisingly healthy return on the table. That's an argument put forward ...

Schroders joins exchange-quoted managed fund game

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2016
Schroders has joined Magellan, K2 Asset Management and AMP Capital in launching an ASX-quoted version of one of its managed funds. The Schroder Real Return Fund (Managed Fund) is based on the firm's successful Real Return CPI Plus 5% fund - which at ...

Antipodes LIC aims to raise $200m

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2016
Sydney-based international equities boutique Antipodes Partners has launched its first listed investment company (LIC) to Australian and New Zealand investors. Antipodes Global Investment Company Limited (ASX: APL), which has a 'Recommended' rating ...

Mercer funds added to two platforms

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2016
... Macquarie Wrap and HUB24 superannuation and pension platforms, broadening Mercer's strategic relationship with the retail investor market. The funds include: Mercer Conservative Growth, Mercer Defensive, Mercer Select Growth, Mercer High Growth, Mercer ...

Colonial First State adds global equity capability

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
Colonial First State has added a global equity capability to its FirstChoice platform. The capability will be managed by T. Rowe Price, and will cover international developed, emerging and frontier equity markets. It uses the same investment insight ...

Antipodes to launch global equities LIC

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
Antipodes Partners is launching a global equities listed investment company. It will give retail investors access to the global equities market. The portfolio of the company will be based on the Antipodes Global Fund, which was declared by Morningstar ...

Voters opt to shut down AMP Capital China fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
The AMP Capital China Growth Fund (AGF) will be wound up following the vote at today's EGM. Opening the EGM, AMP Capital Funds Management chair Adam Tindall said that "a lot has changed" since the fund's establishment in 2006. "Markets move on, regulations ...

Advisers need to leverage enormous ETF winds

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... top of rapid regulatory and technological change there are three to four key areas that could be adopted in the retail investor market including core allocation, tactical adjustments, international diversification, and portfolio completion. "They've ...

Proxy results spell doom for AMP Capital China fund

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
The proxies received prior to Friday's extraordinary general meeting for the future of the AMP Capital China Growth Fund suggest a likely wind-up. The deadline for the proxy results was 10am on July 26; based on the proxies received, AMP Capital said ...