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Future Fund to hire 70 for investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAY 2021
... "Thirdly, we feel like we need to get better at adjusting the portfolio because of these significant changes in markets and volatility we expect to occur going forward." Brake said for the investment hires, Future Fund will be looking to individuals ...

What Gen Z think about investing

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 25 MAY 2021
... already made investments. Of those who have invested, 82% made their first investment in 2020 or 2021. In fact, market volatility during the pandemic proved a tempting time to invest for many. One quarter of all respondents across all generations reported ...

State Street scores ETF servicing mandate

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 20 MAY 2021
... provide indicative NAV or iNAV files), fund accounting, fund administration and custody to the AllianceBernstein Managed Volatility Equities Fund. The fund was originally developed seven years ago in partnership with Catholic Super but will now be available ...

Chi-X hires from ASX

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAY 2021
... Australia executive John Williams joining as deputy chief operating officer. In addition, the AllianceBernstein Managed Volatility Equities Fund recently launched on Chi-X. The fund was originally developed in partnership with Catholic Super but will ...

Investment Leadership Awards finalists named

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 17 MAY 2021
... Pendal Focus Australian Share Fund Australian Equities - High Performance AllianceBernstein Australia - AB Managed Volatility Equities Fund Australian Unity Investments - Australian Unity Platypus Aust. Eq. Hyperion Asset Management - Hyperion Aust. ...

Research aims to solve cash conundrum

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 6 MAY 2021
... downside protection have traditionally been used in the equity component of portfolios to safeguard against sharemarket volatility," Allianz Retire+ chief executive Matthew Rady said. "They haven't been thought of as an approach that can potentially ...

The other side of the ETP growth story

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAY 2021
... Yates also pointed to the latest S&P SPIVA report which found that even when the markets were down during COVID-19 volatility, Aussie equities active managers largely failed to beat the benchmark. He said to the advisers in the audience that this should ...

Cboe Chi-X takeover progresses

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 27 APR 2021
... exchanges, ASX and Cboe, competing with each other." The latest ETF to launch on Chi-X was the AllianceBernstein Managed Volatility Equities Fund. The fund was originally developed in partnership with Catholic Super but will now be available to non-institutional ...

Macquarie-linked fund manager shutters

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 26 APR 2021
... Fund invested in exotic strategies, namely exchange-traded government bond, equity index futures contracts and equity volatility index futures contracts, and over-the-counter foreign exchange forward contracts with exposure to developed market and emerging ...

Value managers fight back: Mercer

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 20 APR 2021
... median returns for the period. "Value, along with other return-enhancing factors such as quality, momentum, size and low volatility, is one of five key 'factors' that can be used when diversifying to ensure portfolios have exposure to a range ...