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GFC derails wealth fee growth by $30bn

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... growth-oriented product suite and into income-oriented products and active-passive strategies. This month fund manager AXA IM launched SmartBeta products, which are alternative solutions to index trackers. Craig Hurt, AXA IM's director of Australia & ...

AXA IM launches two SmartBeta products

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... Investment Managers has announced the launch of two new smart beta products, designed as alternatives to index trackers. The AXA IM SmartBeta Equity and AXA IM SmartBeta Bond strategies use rules based filters to reduce exposure to risks associated with ...

Quality of Spain and Poland belies credit rating

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... will manage reputational risk associated with some sovereign debt assets without materially impacting quality or duration. AXA IM's global head of responsible investment, Matt Christensen, said that the eurozone debt crisis has amplified the importance ...

SmartBeta solution tackles passive MySuper index approach: AXA IM

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 AUG 2012
AXA Investment Managers (AXA IM) has released a series of corporate bond strategies intended to help super funds address MySuper requirements. 'SmartBeta' credit strategies enable super funds to achieve low-cost global credit exposure without the drawbacks ...

Benchmarks stop us thinking: AXA IM

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
... might be taking to becoming tools for preventing the taking of risk," said Mark Tinker, fund manager, AXA Framlington (AXA IM's qualitative equities platform). Tinker said that in some cases, the reliance on benchmarks was forcing people into incorrect ...

ESG sheds light on Sov debt crisis: AXA IM

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
Environmental, social and governance research has a role to play as Europe's sovereign debt crisis blurs the lines between the definitions of developed and developing nations, according to a global responsible investment expert. A lot of the countries ...

AXA IM launches corporate bond strategies

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... credit exposure without the drawbacks of market capitalisation weighted index-based strategies, said AXA Investment Mangers (AXA IM). AXA IM's SmartBeta strategies take an active approach, aiming for a more attractive risk/return profile than that offered ...

AMP results show continued AXA impact

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
AMP Limited FY11 results have shown its AXA merge continues to drag on costs with net profit after tax of $688 million, down 11%, for the 12 months to the end of December. AMP Financial Services meanwhile posted mixed results with North platform and ...

AXA IM to expand responsible investment focus

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 22 NOV 2011
... themes with companies in conjunction with milestones and goals. According to Matt Christensen, who was recently appointed AXA IM's global head of responsible investment, Australia's superannuation funds sector would be a key driver of the emerging Asian ...

Investment head concerned by super approach

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... some big funds that don't have an investment committee, which is a huge buffer in the governance process." Speaking at an AXA IM roundtable event on 'Sensible investing after the Global Financial Crisis', Gardener said it was frustrating to hear funds ...