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Investors misunderstand smart beta: AXA IM

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2015
... smart beta products should have a tacking error of around 6%-8%, more akin to actively managed strategies, an approach that AXA IM adopts for its suite of products. "Smart beta must focus on Sharpe ratio rather than information ratio," he said.

AXA IM to open ESG strategy to investors

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 NOV 2014
... allocated to it. The company's impact investing approach focuses on sectors including healthcare, education and finance. AXA IM said impact investing - which is broadly defined as investments in business and/or funds that generate social and/or environmental ...

AXA ESG SmartBeta fund available to retail investors

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 15 SEP 2014
... Retail investors with an interest in responsible investment can now access AXA Investment Managers ESG SmartBeta fund. The AXA IM ACWI SmartBeta Equity Fund is now available on the Asgard platform after having been seeded with $55 million from Financial ...

AXA IM appoints Asia Pacific head

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 14 JUL 2014
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has appointed Simon Flood to replace Jean-Pierre Leoni as head of its Asia Pacific business. Leoni is returning to his native France after four years in Asia. He will lead AXA IM's client management group. Based in Hong ...

Governance eclipses social and environmental concerns

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2014
... totally eclipses environmental and social factors when it comes to stakeholder concern, a report by AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has shown. The report showed that stakeholders with voting rights are overwhelmingly concerned with governance (G), with ...

Mercer allocates $150M AXA IM global SmartBeta

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 APR 2014
... increasing number of institutional investors look for a more intelligent and pragmatic approach to capture the market return," AXA IM director of Australia and New Zealand Craig Hurt said. AXA IM diversified portfolio is constructed from a universe of ...

AXA IM includes ESG in smart beta offering

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2014
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has developed a smart beta investment option that includes environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors. The ESG version of AXA IM's SmartBeta solution will be presented to institutional investors as an alternative ...

AXA IM to expand outside of Europe

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAR 2014
... presence outside of Europe, with plans to strengthen its footprint in Asia, including Australia and Japan, and the Americas. AXA IM former head of consultant relations Tim Gardener will head up a new global institutional client group to support growth. ...

AXA IM launches global equity smart beta product

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 OCT 2013

Retirees warned: beware the 'great rotation'

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUL 2013
... equities could see Australian retirees swimming against the current, according to a new paper by AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM). The paper, entitled 'The Great Rotation', analyses the potential for a mass global move from bonds to equities, as global ...