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Challenger kicks off active ETFs

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2018
... by Zenith and Lonsec. Fidante had its sights set on listing Australia's first active fixed income ETF. However, Legg Mason fixed income affiliate Western Asset Management beat it when it rang the bell at the ASX on November 19 to list the Betashares ...

Aussie investors calm about next 12 months

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2018
... about opportunities in the next 12 months, a sentiment that is more bullish than global counterparts. Research from Legg Mason polled 16,810 active direct investors globally, including 1000 Australians in its annual global investment survey. Globally ...

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 ...

Global manager appoints distribution director

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 8 NOV 2018
... best position our business for growth and add further capabilities to our Australian team," Harrison said. On July 8, Legg Mason announced it had hired Franklin Templeton's insto sales director Christina Manonian.

BlackRock outlines ETF plans for Australia

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2018
... actively managed ETFs have entered the market so far this year. Fellow top-10 ETF issuer BetaShares joined forces with Legg Mason to launch actively managed funds. Yet, the take up of active ETFs has been slow. In the 13 years since the first actively ...

AMP Capital divests $440m from tobacco

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2018
... holdings for their Australian strategies so far this year including J.P. Morgan AM, Swiss asset manager Vontobel and Legg Mason affiliate Western Asset.

Praemium picks up new SMA partners

HARRISON WORLEY  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2018
... accounts provider added model portfolios to its separately managed accounts. Alliance Bernstein, UBS, Nucleus, Penda and Legg Mason all had model portfolios added to the investment menu, including several international models. Praemium said the new portfolios ...

Asset manager hires insto sales director

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2018
... global asset manager with more than $56 billion in Australian assets is welcoming a new institutional sales director. Legg Mason, which manages $56 billion in assets in Australia, has hired a new institutional sales director from another asset manager. ...

Pacific Current invests $95m in US firm, sells Aussie infrastructure stake

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUL 2018
... 10% stake in RARE Infrastructure. In October 2015, Pacific Current Group sold a majority of its holding in RARE to Legg Mason. The latter is the majority shareholder in RARE, owning a 75% stake. The original sale agreement was subject to a put/call option ...

LGIAsuper adds investment veteran to board

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2018
... Dewhurst has held senior investment management and leadership roles globally. He has worked as IOOF's chief executive and Legg Mason's head of global investment managers. He now chairs boards of listed and unlisted companies including OneVue Holdings. ...