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Vision Super revises investment strategy

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2020
... please understand that investment objectives are not forecasting or predictions,' the fund said. "They simply represent a benchmark against which the trustee monitors performance." Vision also changed its strategic asset allocations (SAA) for some of ...

Perpetual profits plummet

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 20 AUG 2020
Investment giant Perpetual has seen its net profit after tax fall 29% year on year, blaming an increase in outflows from its investments business as well as the challenging conditions of the COVID-19 pandemic for the decline. Revenue for the full year ...

Sunsuper announces investment, insurance changes

ELIZA BAVIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2020
... international shares. Previously the fund's balanced index option was aiming to closely match the return of the performance benchmark, while its new objective is to beat inflation over 10 years by 3.25% for their Super-savings account and Transition ...

Bloomberg launches ESG ratings

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2020
... otherwise hard to compare across companies. For corporates, these scores offer a valuable, quantitative and normalised benchmark that will easily highlight their ESG performance." While the "ES" scores will focus on those companies that account for 15% ...

Melbourne boutique deepens Canadian ties

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... Munro Global Growth Equity strategy was launched to Canadian institutional investors in January, 2019 and has beat its benchmark in the time since. Now, CI is adding three new series of the CI Munro Global Growth Equity Fund to retail investors, with ...

Contango dumps investment strategy, opens raise

ANNABELLE DICKSON  |  THURSDAY, 13 AUG 2020
... GST. Meanwhile, its investors may be disgruntled with the staggering 20% performance fee of excess returns above the benchmark, which is also to be split between the two companies. The Contango board believes the fee is appropriate based on the track ...

Warakirri launches retail funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... in 20-40 stocks. It is managed by Northcape, whose emerging market strategy has delivered 7.4% p.a. higher than the benchmark from July 2008 to June end. "We are excited to launch these retail funds with Northcape as the investment manager and Warakirri ...

Magellan readies lower-cost funds

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... infrastructure strategy to institutional investors since December 2009. It is now $8.2 billion in size and has beat its benchmark by wide margin on all time horizons since inception. "It is obviously very scalable. From a capacity point of view, it doesn't ...

Emerging market debt rebounds

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2020
... level in EM credit, we believe that selective opportunities remain in rates and currencies away from many of the large benchmark constituents." The IMF recently revised GDP forecasts down for EM by two percentage points, to -3.0%. However, Eaton Vance ...

Global manager launches China A-shares fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 11 AUG 2020
Ninety One, formerly known as Investec Asset Management, is touting a new China A-shares fund to local institutional and wholesale investors. Its China A-shares fund holds a portfolio of 30-50 stocks, with at least two thirds of the assets in mainland ...