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Small-caps can improve investment trade-offs

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2016
... particular recorded significantly higher returns than global large-caps while returns were a little lower than Australian equities (large-caps) with marginally more volatility. In recent years, the sharp decline in the Australian dollar has enhanced ...

IOOF awards Australian large cap mandate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2016
IOOF Investments has awarded a boutique Australian equities value manager an institutional mandate. Ralton Asset Management has been chosen to manage a concentrated portfolio of large cap Australian equities. Sam Baillieu, chief executive of Ralton's ...

Advisers leading ETF investment charge

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2016
... Sherman said that although most investor categories still allocated around 40% of ETF holdings or more to Australian equities, the research showed that over time, investors were gaining a better appreciation of diversifying across asset classes and geographies ...

SMSFs up property, managed funds exposure

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2016
... exposure to property has increased to 20.4% of portfolios in the 12 months to end of March 2016 at the expense of Australian equities, according to data compiled by SMSF administrator SuperConcepts. Property increased its share from 17% at 31 March 2015 ...

Super fund asset class performance disappoints

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2016
... there is clear variation between funds, with some funds consistently outperforming whilst others underperform. Australian equities have fared fairly well with most funds beating the benchmark over one and three years and more than 40% exceeding the index ...

Hyperion hard-closes flagship small-cap fund

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
Hyperion Asset Management has announced it will hard-close its small-cap Australian equities fund, the Hyperion Small Growth Companies Fund. Having originally soft-closed the fund at the beginning of April, Hyperion will now pay out distributions in ...

RBA envy

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2016
... China's down 0.9%; Singapore's down 3.8%; South Korea's down 0.9%. Was it the Federal Budget that caused the Australian equities to zig when most others zagged? Or the upcoming 2 July Federal elections (but this was called over the weekend)? Or Donald ...

Equities manager selects NAS

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 2 MAY 2016
Australia's largest custodian has been selected to provide its services to an Australian equities manager. NAB Asset Servicing (NAS) will provide custodial and administrative services to Perennial Value Management, an active and value-style manager ...

Future Fund keeps powder dry

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 APR 2016
... March quarter, show the $117 billion sovereign wealth fund has upped its cash weighting to 22.9% and decreased Australian equities to just 6.5% of the portfolio. Developed markets account for 15.2%, emerging markets represent 7.3% of funds and private ...

Ausbil wins industry fund mandate

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
... Strategy. Managed by chief executive officer Paul Xiradis and his team, the strategy is a large cap, long-only Australian equities offering targeting outperformance across all market conditions. Ausbil head of institutional business Ross Youngman said ...