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State Street fund purges tobacco, weapons

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... optimisation process already described. Even without any exclusions, each fFund already has some tracking error against its benchmark due to practical considerations like withholding tax, transaction costs and small cash balances. On balance, we expect ...

AMP Capital cuts fees on equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
... Capital said in a letter sent to investors. The fund will also go from targeting 30% lower carbon footprint than its benchmark to targeting 50% lower carbon footprint. AMP Capital said implementing the above two changes may incur some buy/sell costs ...

Performance analyst jobs hold steady in COVID-19

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2020
Performance analysts and more broadly, investment data professionals have been in strong demand throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, according to Kaizen Recruitment. The role -- with responsibilities including calculating, attributing and benchmarking ...

Behavioural tools to limit losses, fear

ALLY SELBY  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2020
... core research areas; the first of which is analysing what a perfectly rational decision maker would choose, to use as a benchmark. However, he warns, people don't always make perfectly rational choices. Informed by experiments in psychology and experimental ...

Morningstar downgrades two Vanguard funds to neutral

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... context of these fees, we don't think this share class will be able to deliver positive alpha relative to the category benchmark index, explaining its Morningstar Analyst Rating of Neutral." In response, Vanguard called attention to its mutual structure ...

Pengana eyes fully franked dividend

ELIZA BAVIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2020
... throughout the cycle," Gooch said. In the 10 months to April 30, the investment portfolio returned 8.2% compared to the benchmark 2.4%. PIA chief executive Russel Pillemer said it is pleasing the investment team has been able to realise gains on investments ...

Active share, past outperformance can predict returns

KANIKA SOOD  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
A new study argues that separately managed accounts with high active shares and a history of outperformance can be expected to continue delivering in the future. Active share, which was introduced by Cremers and Petajisto in 2009, is calculated as the ...

Global asset manager launches new fund

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
T. Rowe Price has expanded its suite of fixed income investment solutions for Australian investors with the launch of the T. Rowe Price Global High Income Fund. The asset manager said the fund is a concentrated, high-income portfolio of primarily global ...

Chief economist update: Bad news is good news is back

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2020
... current world of high volatility, one day's gain could be wiped out the next. Still, the US equity market's benchmark equity indices are showing renewed strength at the margin. Here are the stats: For the week ended May 8: The S&P 500 is up 3.5% ...

Prodigy boutique to continue

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2020
... Investment Partners was the only well-performing boutique in Prodigy's three-boutique stable. It returned 6.2% above the benchmark S&P/ASX Small Ords in the 12 months to February end. It is managed by Andrew Mouchacca and Richard Macdougall, both ...