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Sovereign investors go back to fixed income

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUL 2019
... concerns and the prospect of negative returns from equities has led to increased fixed income allocations and more diversification in allocations to infrastructure, real estate and private equity markets," Invesco said in the report. An earlier report ...

Asset manager bolsters distribution team

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 8 JUL 2019
... interest rate environment. Global credit markets offer higher returns with a broad opportunity set with greater diversification and liquidity than the local market," he said.

Pension giant awards $1bn in mandates

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 27 JUN 2019
... director of sustainable investment and stewardship strategies Kirsty Jenkinson said. The firms offer geographic diversification and apply analytical rigour in incorporating environmental, social and governance factors into fundamental analysis while ...

Retiree savings won't last: World Economic Forum

HARRISON WORLEY  |  MONDAY, 17 JUN 2019
... liquidity and the ability to perform daily valuations may push investors into strategies with less options for diversification. "Currently, most retirement investment vehicles are largely based on traditional equity and fixed-income investments that ...

Smart beta now mainstream for instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2019
... Survey respondents said their top reason for turning to smart beta was enhancing return (68%), reducing risk (52%), diversification (48%), cost savings (31%), to get exposure to a specific factor (22%) and to generate income (9%). Geographically, European ...

Super fund reinforces savings with timber, agriculture

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2019
... alternative investments, including our agricultural assets, have provided solid investment returns and superior diversification benefits for Queenslanders."

Advisers wary of unlisted assets: Sunsuper

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... the later stages of economic growth and argued that in this environment alternative assets are attractive. "The diversification provided by alternative assets - particularly our unlisted assets: property, infrastructure and private equity - remain very ...

SSGA launches four model portfolios

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... outperformed over the long term, he said. "By blending the strategies, we can participate in different market events and diversification benefits." One interesting trend Choudhury is seeing is financial advisers looking to what the big, institutional ...

Alternatives manager adds former Morningstar head

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2019
... work alongside investors to demonstrate how alternative beta can fit into their portfolio," Stanford said. The diversification benefits of alternative beta strategies couldn't be underestimated, and said he was pleased the firm could offer them to more ...

Boutique fund manager rebrands

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2019
... "More advisers wanted access to our proven track record for their SMSF clients and individual investors who want diversification from traditional Australian equities," Littler said. "We think this will translate into 50-70% of inflows coming from retail ...