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Active fixed income funds review fees

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 NOV 2019
Fund managers of active fixed income strategies are rethinking their pricing as financial advisers and institutional investors drive a harder bargain in a lower-returning world, and new retail opportunities beckon. Several fixed interest giants, including ...

ASX faces challenge on ETF stronghold

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2019
ASX-listed exchange traded funds have raised close to $56 billion but now its lesser-known rival Chi-X is ready to start listing ETFs, with a Kapstream fund kicking off on it today. Chi-X started off trading small amounts of equities in Australia in ...

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 ...

Moelis eyes new private credit fund, appoints lead

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 3 OCT 2019
... Secured Loan Series, which focuses on first-lien mortgages over Australian property and the Moelis Australia Fixed Income Fund, which is a diversified portfolio of credit investments including a proprietary credit platform.

Perpetual profits dip, investments down 29%

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 22 AUG 2019
Perpetual reported 17% lower net profit after tax of $115.9 million for the year ending June, as its value-style funds underperformed and had to hand back institutional money. Perpetual Investments, which is the biggest contributor to group profits ...

Clime ramps up private wealth

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUL 2019
Clime Investment Management is looking to hire more financial advisers, expand its investment offering and potentially acquire advice books as it builds out its private wealth business. The 23-year-old firm managed $887 million at March end. It has ...

Kapstream looks to Chi-X for active ETF

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2019
The active manager has forgone the ASX for competitor Chi-X as it looks to list its first exchange-traded fund. Kapstream will launch an active fixed income strategy as a Chi-X quoted fund on a date to be announced soon. Chi-X is gearing up to list ...

Credit fund launches to wholesale investors

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2019
A new credit fund has opened to wholesale investors and will soon launch on the ASX. The Moelis Australia Fixed Income Fund targets the RBA cash rate return plus 4% per annum or 5.5%. The fund invests in diversified credit, including inventory funding ...

Australia's first active fixed income ETF goes live

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2018
A Legg Mason affiliate has become the first to offer an actively-managed fixed income fund as an exchange-traded fund in Australia. Ringing the bell at the ASX in Sydney yesterday, Western Asset Management portfolio manager Anthony Kirkham listed the ...

Aviva chief executive exits

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2018
Aviva chief executive Mark Wilson is stepping down from the top job and will exit in April 2019. The UK insurance, pensions, investments and asset management firm said Wilson and its board have mutually agreed that Wilson will leave the group. Aviva ...