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ETF investors soar to 1.7m

KARREN VERGARA  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2022
Retail investors continue to flock to passive strategies as new research shows the number of users soared to a new high of 1.7 million. Investment Trends estimated a 33% rise in the number of users of exchange-traded products during 2021, while a further ...

Schroders launches new fund, wins mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022
... disclosed. "The fund leverages Schroders' global investment platform with targeted allocations to a broad array of active and passive strategies using Schroders' global specialist teams across equities, fixed income and alternatives," the fund manager ...

Vanguard suspends trading in Russian securities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... Vanguard has suspended the purchasing of Russian securities from all its actively managed funds and is also working to divest passive holdings. In a statement, Vanguard said its total exposure to Russia only accounts for about 0.01% of client assets ...

ESG funding booms in Australia: Calastone

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
... all the ESG equity cash invested by Australians (98%) went into actively managed funds in 2021, with Calastone saying passive strategies will struggle to gain ground until ESG standards are established. Additionally, the index found that $4 in every ...

Biggest ever super merger completes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
... extract skill, because then you are paying for index-like returns," he explained. "So, we've had fairly substantial passive in our equities holdings and QSuper has been almost exclusively passive." The funds also share having lifecycle strategies ...

AustralianSuper to grow external mandates, hires

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2022
... complemented by high quality external managers," he said. "Over the long term, we are confident we can substantially outperform a passive portfolio by selecting and carefully combining internal and external active equity managers. Our aim is to create ...

Pinnacle folds boutique

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
... million, up 23% on the prior corresponding period. Last August saw an outflow of $3.9 billion from an Omega Global Investors passive mandate. "Whilst we experienced institutional net outflows, we believe these reflect short-term factors including rebalancing ...

Top three drive ETF surge

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
... starting out their investing journey. Over the course of 2021, 33 funds launched, 13 of which were active ETFs. However, passive products captured most of the flows at 92%. There is still some way to go to for mainstream adoption of active ETFs in the ...

Cbus to launch new investment options

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 14 JAN 2022
... management, but the introduction of the indexed option is a response to growing demand in the market for very low-cost passive products. Low cost indexed options have proven very popular for fellow industry funds Hostplus and AustralianSuper. "The recent ...

MySuper heatmap offers few surprises

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2021
... products called out for their cost - administration fees or total cost - as at 1 October 2021 were OneSuper's MySuper Passive Balanced, IOOF's MySuper option and Maritime Super's MySuper option. Meanwhile, some that earned an orange rating included Australian ...