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Macquarie AM, Mirova seal distribution deal

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2022
... positive social and environmental impact through investments in 40-60 global stocks and aims to outperform the MSCI World Index. Current top holdings include Microsoft, Mastercard, Thermo Fisher Scientific and Danaher Corp, with most of the fund's holdings ...

Aussie small-cap fund returns 40%

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2022
A Bennelong small-caps fund outperformed the index nearly fourfold over the last three years, an analysis of the sector shows. The Bennelong Funds Management Emerging Companies Fund returned 40.4% p.a., Rainmaker's research on the wholesale funds ...

Biden signs executive order on digital assets

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2022
... equivalent to 78.5 days of consumption in the average US household, according to the Cambridge Bitcoin Electricity Consumption Index. Meanwhile, recent insights from NFT Club suggest 1.37 trees would need to be planted to offset just one non-fungible ...

Schroders launches new fund, wins mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022
... tracking error limit. The composite benchmark is an equally weighted blend of MSCI All Country World, Ex-Australia, Equities Index and the Bloomberg Barclays Global Aggregate Bond Index, Schroders said, to match the risk profile of the YFYS benchmark. ...

Ironbark brings new global small companies fund to Aussie investors

CHLOE WALKER  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAR 2022
... (Apis) to launch the Ironbark Apis Global Small Companies Fund. The new fund aims to outperform the MSCI ACWI Small Cap Index AUD (after fees) over five to seven years. To do this, Apis uses a fundamental approach to construct a long-only portfolio of ...

Vanguard suspends trading in Russian securities

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... Vanguard said its total exposure to Russia only accounts for about 0.01% of client assets, with the vast majority being in index funds. Still, purchasing of Russian securities across internally and externally managed active funds has been suspended and ...

Alpha females

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2022
... think gender is the next frontier," Hobbs says. In 2019, a quantitative study from S&P Global looking at the Russell 3000 index found that firms with female chief executives or chief financial officers produced superior stock price performance, compared ...

Direct indexing: The next evolution?

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2022
... direct indexing. In its simplest form, direct indexing involves directly investing in the actual securities that make up an index. This approach is dissimilar from investing in exchange-traded funds (ETFs), that track an index or mutual funds that follow ...

Switch to value could hurt super: Research

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 7 MAR 2022
... options have a strong bias to growth. This was with a correlation of 0.6 in the five years to May 2021; against the value index the correlation was -0.2. Such a change would also impact net flows of managed funds, with Rainmaker having also previously ...

MSCI, FTSE Russell drop Russia from indexes

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  FRIDAY, 4 MAR 2022
... have moved to drop Russian equities from their indexes and reclassify the country, citing accessibility requirements. The index providers announced their decisions yesterday, to take effect next week. MSCI said the MSCI Russia Indexes will be reclassified ...

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Global X awards mandate for ETF business

ELIZA BAVIN
Global X has awarded a new custody and administration mandate for its Australian ETF business.

Bell Asset Management launches small-caps fund

KARREN VERGARA
Bell Asset Management has formally launched its Australian Small Companies Fund, which is run by former Tyndall Asset Management portfolio managers.

Former Australian Ethical finance chief lands new gig

MATTHEW WAI
The former chief financial officer of the ethical investment manager has joined a local finance company after wrapping up his tenure at AUB Group.

MySuper assets pursue $1.5tn Choice sector

KARREN VERGARA
MySuper assets are fast catching up to the $1.5 trillion Choice sector, hitting nearly $1.2 trillion in the March quarter.

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