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Fund selectors harbour AI bubble fears, affirm belief in its longevity

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 8 FEB 2024
... more towards active management to help navigate these challenging investment conditions," Watson said. "Skilled active managers can help investors to navigate the risks of recession and market volatility, react more quickly when situations change, and ...

Volatility an opportunity for skilled active managers: GSFM

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2024
The looming threat of sporadic, extreme market volatility presents an opportunity for active managers to capitalise on fluctuating asset values, GSFM advisor Stephen Miller says. At an event yesterday, Miller described the current financial landscape ...

A-REIT strategies outperform G-REITs

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 13 NOV 2023
... type of environment, Le said that active strategies may be better designed to protect capital, like some skilled active managers demonstrated during the sector and market drawdowns of 2020 and 2022. "Notwithstanding the highlighted underperformance of ...

Active funds outperform passive strategies - sometimes

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 6 NOV 2023
... strategies in the bonds-global category over the past decade. Conversely, in the "world large blend" category, active managers often struggle to justify their higher fees compared to low-cost passive options. Nevertheless, the study, which encompasses ...

The ugly truth: Unattractive fund managers are investment darlings

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2023
According to a study by Shanghai Jiao Tong University, having a face only a mother could love pays off in funds management, as unattractive fundies outperform their good-looking peers. In the first economics study to employ a deep learning model to ...

Smart beta 'taking over' active management share: VanEck

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2023
... their smart beta ETF allocations in the coming year. It was also revealed that 63% of participants had replaced active managers with smart beta strategies, up from 56% the previous year. The survey, which garnered 673 responses from local financial advisers ...

Global small caps outperform Aussie counterparts: SSGA

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2023
... more opportunities for active portfolio managers. "A fundamental principle in active management implies that an active managers ability to generate risk adjusted excess returns (information ratio), is directly related to their stock picking ability but ...

Most Australian actively managed funds lag the index

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2023
... the S&P Developed Ex-Australia LargeMidCap outperformed by 14%. This may have created a tailwind for domestic active managers looking overseas for excess returns, along with a corresponding higher hurdle for international equity managers, which perhaps ...

Natixis IM eyes expansion with new retail AFSL

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  MONDAY, 4 SEP 2023
... their financial goals," she said. "Our point of difference is our global 'Expert Collective' of high performing active managers that delivers more than 200 strategies across different asset classes including global large, small and medium cap equities ...

Australian ETF industry crosses $150bn milestone

ANDREW MCKEAN  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUL 2023
... right across their portfolio, whether it's shifting from higher cost unlisted funds, replacing underperforming active managers or improving diversification beyond the selection of single stocks," Vynokur said. "This trend shows no sign of slowing ...