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Colonial First State ups cash for Aussie equities funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
Colonial First State is temporarily allowing three of its Australian equities funds to hold more cash than their investment mandates, as the ASX 200 reported its worst day ever yesterday. The $2.9 billion Colonial First State Wholesale Geared Share ...

Volatility hits super funds

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2020
The current volatility of global financial markets is taking its toll on some of Australia's largest superannuation funds. Latest Rainmaker analysis of superannuation returns and unit pricing shows Australia's large superannuation funds aren't ...

Coronavirus is an investment opportunity: Fidelity

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2020
... darlings at discounted prices. That's according to Paul Taylor, portfolio manager of the Fidelity Australian Equities Fund. "Coronavirus will impact economies, markets and lives - but when you look at it from a market perspective, it's important ...

Clime launches new SMA portfolios

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2020
... "Clime's investment management team collectively has more than 150 years' experience and our All Cap Australian Equities Fund was ranked in the top five performing funds in the country in 2019 by Mercer. "Bringing this capability and expertise ...

Boutique launches global equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2019
A boutique founded by former Goldman Sachs equities investors is launching a new global equities fund. Auscap Asset Management was co-founded in 2012 by Tim Carleton and Matthew Parker who were both executive directors at Goldman Sachs, responsible ...

Antares hires from Gandel family office

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 5 NOV 2019
... strong talent from within." The two appointments come as Antares launches a new fund, the Antares Ex-20 Australian Equities Fund. "Investors and advisers are attracted to the Ex-20 strategy given many Australians hold direct shares in many of the top ...

mFunds crack $1 billion, PIMCO dominates

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2019
Five years after they launched, ASX mFunds have finally cracked $1 billion, with PIMCO's funds emerging as the most popular. mFunds is the ASX's marketplace for unlisted managed funds, allowing investors and advisers to buy and sell units in ...

Aussie active managers underperform

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  THURSDAY, 26 SEP 2019
... median manager would have outperformed if not for management fees. In high performance, the Selector Australian Equities Fund topped the list with a 17.5% pa return. The Lazard Select Australian Equity Fund was further down the list for pure returns ...

UniSuper hires from Janus Henderson

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 3 SEP 2019
The $80 billion superannuation fund has hired an equities manager from Janus Henderson's Aussie equities team which shut down its funds earlier in the year and returned $490 million to investors. Paul Phillips started as a manager, equities at UniSuper ...

Managed funds versus the ASX 200

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
Aussie equities managers had a hard time beating the S&P/ASX 200 Accumulation index in the year to June and the underperformance gap has widened significantly over the past four years, according to new Rainmaker research. Just one in 10 wholesale managed ...