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Plato appoints senior manager for Global Shares Fund

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
Plato Investment Management has hired a senior portfolio manager to manage its newly launched Global Shares Income Fund. Daniel Pennell joined the fund manager from Realindex Investments, a Colonial First State subsidiary focused on smart beta. As lead ...

BetaShares goes global with third managed risk product

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2016
... trading under the ASX code "WRLD". The fund is designed to provide exposure to a broadly diversified portfolio of global shares with reduced volatility and cushioned downside risk. With a single trade on the ASX, investors in WRLD can obtain exposure ...

Invast launches thematic model portfolios

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2015
... which currently has 30 investment themes, and includes direct shares, contracts for difference (CFDs) over liquid global shares and exchange traded funds (ETFs). Some popular themes among investors include Ageing Population Australia, US Cyber Security ...

Redpoint awarded MLC equities mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2015
... equities index mandate from one of Australia's largest wealth managers, MLC Investments. Redpoint will manage the global shares strategy within the low-cost MLC Index Plus portfolios and will also manage a currency overlay strategy as part of the overall ...

Global shares tipped amid slow local growth

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 8 DEC 2014
Investors in the Australian share market can expect sluggish growth at best in 2015, as the fall in commodity prices flows on to the wider Australian economy. Plummeting oil prices and the resulting sudden fall in the domestic share market in early ...

Nikko AM ups weighting to global shares

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 9 OCT 2014
Nikko Asset Management has increased its overweight in global equities in light of a positive macroeconomic environment and accommodative US monetary policy. The global investment committee of the Tokyo-based asset manager decided to raise its overweight ...

Super posts 12.7 pct for FY2014

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 4 AUG 2014
... the returns were underpinned by rolling 12 month S&P ASX300 accumulation index returns of 17% and 20% returns from global shares. Even fixed interest has recovered posting returns of 6.1% from domestic bonds and 7.9% from international bonds. The top ...

Super on track for double-digit year

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
... the 35% rolling 12 month return from international shares has also boosted returns for funds with high exposure to global shares. In contrast, domestic and international bonds returned 3.3% and 3.9% respectively and cash returned 2.8%. Direct property ...

SMSFs still under-invested in global shares

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 24 MAR 2014
... Australian companies to achieve. Tuck says SMSF investors who lack the necessary knowledge to invest directly in global shares should consider having their portfolio professionally managed, ideally in a way that manages both market downside risk and ...

Realindex outperforms as it passes five-year milestone

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014
... anniversary last month. During that time, its four original funds - Australian Shares, Australian Small Companies, Global Shares and Global Shares Hedged - have outperformed their equivalent market-cap weighted index on an after fee basis by 0.4% to ...