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Financial advisers weigh in on factor investing

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 16 MAY 2019
... or macroeconomic exposures to build portfolios. It's a widespread strategy in equities, but less common in other asset classes such as fixed income. The most popular factors are value, size, low volatility, quality and momentum. Interest rates, inflation ...

Aberdeen Standard hires ESG investment director

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 MAY 2019
... investment strategies, Hartnett's responsibilities included developing and researching new ESG strategies for asset classes, and ensuring assets were invested responsibly to achieve long-term, sustainable returns. Hartnett was a director at Regnan ...

SMSF gender gap reduces over time

HARRISON WORLEY  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... around 36%. However, after just a year that figure drops to roughly 22%, and with capital redeployed into other asset classes such as equities. By the fifth year, cash and term deposits sit at 17.6%. "It's worth bearing in mind that these initial high ...

Social infra to become core investment

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2019
... component underpinning the investment, providing the opportunity for capital growth. "This contrasts with traditional asset classes such as retail, which is being rapidly disrupted by online shopping," he said. While many social infrastructure projects ...

GSFM announces strategic partnership

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2019
... Asset Management manages over US$20 billion in assets on behalf of retail and institutional clients across multiple asset classes and is led by Brandon Snow, Robert Swanson, Stephen Groff and Greg Dean. The Cambridge Global Smaller Companies Fund aims ...

Macquarie expands US funds management

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 12 APR 2019
... new investors by delivering strong investment performance along with a broad and deep range of strategies across asset classes. We are delighted that Foresters has also selected us as manager of a portion of the Foresters general account." Macquarie ...

Climate change an imminent threat to returns

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... economic data to enable investors to assess financial risk related to climate change for a total portfolio, across all asset classes and industry sectors. It then modelled a 2C, 3C and 4C average warming increase over three timeframes - 2030, 2050 and ...

Crestone builds investment team

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... creating a truly robust investment team to support our advisers, ensuring clients can access advice across more asset classes, both in Australia and offshore. This approach to investing and manager selection allows Crestone to meet the growing expectations ...

Principal appoints insto sales director

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2019
... general manager, institutional business at Perpetual Investments. At Fidelity, he represented its offerings across all asset classes and was responsible for helping define the strategic direction of the global institutional business. Boys will be based ...

Aberdeen Standard fixed income lead departs

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 1 APR 2019
... spearheading Gresham's renewed push into Australia's funds management sector, identifying new specialist asset classes for the firm to move into, creating investible opportunities. Bishop led Aberdeen Standard's Australian fixed income team ...