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ANU to recalibrate divestment policy

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2018
... timed as several of stocks they divested from soon experienced dramatic price falls. However since then ANU's Australian equities portfolio, which now comprises 26% of the investment pool, underperformed by 0.95% in 2016 and by 2.8% in 2017, according ...

Yarra Capital executive joins AUI board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... listed investment company. Dion Hershan is currently Yarra Capital Management's managing director and head of Australian equities. He joins the board of Melbourne-based Australian United Investment Company Limited (AUI) as a director. Prior to joining ...

SMSF home bias drags returns

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2018
... equities, the research said. On a brighter note, the underperformance of international equities compared to Australian equities in February helped close the gap (See Graph 1). February saw a dramatic decline in most global equities markets with the exception ...

Copia boutique appoints new portfolio manager

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 10 APR 2018
A Copia Investment Partners Australian equities boutique is welcoming a new portfolio manager from REST. Will Riggall will work alongside head of Australian equities Andrew Stanley. At REST, he was a super investment manager, having been a senior investment ...

Active manager launches Aussie equities strategy

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
A $109 billion quantitative investment manager is launching its new Australian equities strategy with an undisclosed amount in seed capital from Russell Investments. The Man Numeric Australia Core strategy will pick Australian mid to large cap stocks ...

CFSGAM model portfolios added to FirstWrap

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 9 APR 2018
... Harry Moore said. "The new portfolios are constructed and managed by one of Australia's most highly-regarded Australian equities teams in the industry with a proven track record of managing a diverse range of funds on behalf of institutional and retail ...

BetaShares corners market with super-cheap Aussie equities ETF

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
BetaShares will roll out the world's lowest-cost Australian equities ETF, with management costs of 0.07%. The BetaShares Australia 200 ETF invests in the largest 200 companies listed on the ASX and will trade on the exchange under the ticker code A200. ...

MySuper growth leads industry

KANIKA SOOD, DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 6 APR 2018
... international equities in the month as well as property and infrastructure, partially offset by modest returns in Australian equities and fixed interest. The monthly decline in February is first meaningfully negative month for returns in over a year," ...

Tech selloff builds cash pile at Pengana

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 5 APR 2018
Australian equities managers unloading tech stocks face a tough question - where do they put this pile of cash to work? One international equities manager saw its cash allocations spike to a three-year high as it trimmed investments in tech stocks in ...

Diversity leads growth manager in new direction

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 APR 2018
... from the bottom up. Built by its quantitative investment team, the asset manager placed 45 factors into its Australian equities database and came up with three broad groups it believes "link to future equity performance." With this new ESG quant model ...