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Economic wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... behind the world's three major (or G3) currencies (the US dollar, the euro and the Japanese yen) are eroding their basic currency functions with the result that their global influence will fade over the long-term, says a report from BNP Paribas Investment ...

SMSFs will shape the future of ETFs

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... said. Not long after the market saw its first smart beta products, and providers such as BetaShares launched their first currency ETF. It launched the only cash fund in March 2012, and it is now the fifth largest fund with $900 million. Dyall said later ...

AMP Capital hits back at second LIM wind-up letter

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... time it will take to realise the fund's assets and repatriate the net proceeds of realisation and market movements and currency fluctuations over that period." AMP Capital added that it has, in fact, considered open-ending the fund, but that this idea ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... driven by strong quantitative CTA gains on Brexit Friday and broad-based industry wide gains across equity, commodity and currency markets [in reaction] to Brexit dislocations," said Kenneth J Heinz, president of HFR. World's expanding infrastructure ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JUL 2016
... foreign reserves climbed 4% during 2015-16 to $70 billion, reports the Reserve Bank of Australia. Reserves held as foreign currency remained steady on 84% while holdings of gold increased marginally from 6% to 7%. While Australia's foreign reserve holdings ...

Magellan launches third ASX-quoted active fund

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUL 2016
... is launching an ASX-quoted version of its top-performing listed infrastructure fund. The Magellan Infrastructure Fund (Currency Hedged) is expected to commence trading on the ASX with the code MICH on 22 July 2016. The new exchange-quoted managed fund ...

Man GLG completes EM debt team

KERRIE SYDEE  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2016
... professionals will thrive." The emerging markets debt team will manage three distinct strategies with one focused on hard currency, one local currency and an opportunistic strategy which will invest across the entire emerging market debt domain.

So what if Australia loses its 'AAA'?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2016
... to be around 3% in fiscal year 2016, and the unemployment rate has fallen from last year's cyclical high. Significant currency depreciation is spurring services exports, particularly education and tourism. Low nominal interest rates, coupled with pent-up ...

Morningstar introduces global risk model

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2016
... over 40,000 stocks and 10,000 equity fund portfolios, and contains 36 risk factors which cover style, sector, region and currency characteristics. The style factors are: economic moat, financial health, ownership popularity, ownership risk, valuation ...

Report finds fresh barriers to funds management exports

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2016
... original Johnson Report; treatment of foreign exchange gains and losses under Australia's taxation rules; lack of multi-currency class investment vehicles; a unique regulatory approach under the single Responsible Entity model; lack of recognition of ...