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Mercer hires regional endowments lead

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 2 SEP 2021
... "In the current economic environment, endowments and foundations are facing a new world with new challenges. Market volatility has tested many governance structures, and the years ahead will redefine how endowments and foundations are looking at themselves ...

YFYS test results not a fair representation: Frontier

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2021
... performance comparisons can be misleading if not done correctly. Crucially, "like for like" comparisons and risk and volatility adjusted returns must be taken into consideration. The results of the YFYS test, released yesterday, saw 13 out of 76 MySuper ...

Mergers don't always lead to scale benefits: Barry

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2021
... criticality of the long-term relative performance history, which is not necessarily correlated with either outright return or volatility, does mean that performance relative to YFYS is likely to be a driver of merger partner selection going forwards," ...

IMAP names award winners

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2021
... consultants in this year's IMAP Awards. During challenging investment periods with record high levels of investment market volatility and record low rates on cash, our strategy continues to deliver on its investment objective," RAM director and portfolio ...

Dealer group awards mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 AUG 2021
... Kotecha added: "Our core focus has been to deliver consistent and strong outperformance for our investors, with superior volatility characteristics over 11 years and that's what the numbers are proving." He added that he is pleased with the revenue and ...

Perpetual LIC turns around performance

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  FRIDAY, 20 AUG 2021
... research which allows the team to adapt to changing market conditions and make adjustments accordingly. "The market volatility led by COVID-19 provided opportunities to invest in companies with strong balance sheets which we believed were undervalued ...

Funds valued illiquid asset correctly: ASIC

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2021
... deputy chair Karen Chester said over 2.5 million investors can take comfort from the findings in that during the market volatility of 2020, fund managers' illiquid-asset valuation practices were robust, timely and consistent with ASIC guidance and ...

La Trobe unveils two income products

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2021
... investment strategy within the property credit asset class. Additionally, it demonstrates our ability to supply low volatility income investments to our investors, both domestically and around the globe," he said. Chief investment officer Chris Andrews ...

EQT partners with ETF specialist

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... investing in offshore ETFs. "An actively managed global ETF portfolio can provide superior performance with relatively low volatility and at a lower cost to investors," he said.

Vision Super seeds emerging market debt fund

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2021
... market conditions. The fund aims to offer institutional investors more than 90% of EMD market upside for 50% of its volatility and less than 50% of its downside and allocates risk to five complementary risk/return buckets of EMD assets across the market ...