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FEATURE: Inflation plus investing

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2015
... objectives." The interesting part for institutions is how they decide to spend their fee budget: "You can go for active fund managers and try to increase alpha, or you can pay less for alpha and spend more on risk management." The rise and fall of the ...

Forget LICs, the key to retail is in active ETFs

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2015
... because of their more coherent pricing structure," he added. Prugue said that a more appropriate vehicle for active fund managers to access the retail market would be through mFund or through actively managed ETFs. Like other managers, Lazard would consider ...

Strong passive flows force managers to lower fees

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
Flows into passive strategies have forced active fund managers to lower their fees, global research by US-based management consultant Casey Quirk has found. Passive strategies accounted for 93% of total net new flows at registered products in the United ...

FEATURE: 2014 year in review

MARK SMITH, LAURA MILLAN, JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2014
... sectors of the market over one, three and five years. Compounding the tough stock-picking environment for active fund managers are the rise of smart beta, which, though in its early days, may prove capable at outperforming them at a fraction of the cost ...

FEATURE: A new world order in active management

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2014
... increase in the amount being allocated to index strategies, Mark Smith asks the experts if the jig is up for active fund managers. It seems the world of investing has it in for active managers. The rise of "smart beta" has blurred the line between active ...

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STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2014
... a trend towards investment in index strategies takes hold. Mark Smith considers whether the jig is up for active fund managers in this issue's feature. We also look at rise in non-aligned licensee inquiries and what this means for the planning industry. ...

Active management under threat from smart ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 OCT 2014
... Standard at the S&P Dow Jones Indices Annual ETF Masterclass in Melbourne, the index expert said traditional active fund managers may be forced to review their business propositions in the light of the growth in advanced beta products. "Smart beta opens ...

Active and passive funds are not mutually exclusive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2014
... trying to time the market or expect too much from an active manager too soon. "Having identified skilled active fund managers, investors should be prepared to remain invested long enough, at least through one economic cycle, to give the manager enough ...

Capital Group appoints two senior executives

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... take the RE role in-house are further steps in this journey." Capital Group is one of the world's largest active fund managers with more than US$1.2 trillion in assets under management.

Emulation funds slash performance as well as cost

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management Zhe Chen said. "Related to this, the research suggests that active fund managers have some skill in the inter-day timing of their trades and taking away their timing discretion may be costly." The research ...