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Monash fund added to two platforms

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2016
... Investors is an absolute return Australian equity specialist established by Simon Shields, the ex-head of UBS's Australian Equity Fund, and Shane Fitzgerald, a former J. P. Morgan sell-side analyst. Winston Capital Partners, the fund's distribution partner ...

Absolute returns no longer the domain of instos

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... protection on the downside and deliver stable returns across all market cycles." Henderson's Absolute Return Australian Equity Fund, recently added to the Macquarie Wrap and Netwealth platforms, is one example. As of 30 June 2016, the fund has returned ...

Responsible assets close to half of total Australia AUM

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2016
... responsible focus: core RI Australian equities funds outperformed the ASX300 and the average large cap Australian equity fund over one, three, five and 10 years; similar international equities funds outperformed their average large cap equivalents over ...

Regal FM appoints Macquarie vet

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... Australian Small Companies strategy. The manager also offers a fund to retail investors: the Regal Long Short Australian Equity Fund, for which Perpetual was appointed responsible entity in April 2015 following Ascalon Capital Managers exiting its responsible ...

US mulls borrowing limit on leveraged ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUN 2016
... of net assets. There are currently only three leveraged ETFs available on the ASX: the BetaShares Geared Australian Equity Fund, the BetaShares Geared US Equity Fund and the BetaShares Australian Equities Strong Bear Fund. The first two have gearing ...

Higher recession risk creates opportunity in large miners: Lazard

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2016
... 1990, the tech boom of 2000 and the China boom of 2008. One area where the manager of the Lazard Select Australian Equity Fund is seeing opportunity is in mega-cap materials stocks BHP Billiton and Rio Tinto. Falling commodity prices have seen these ...

Aussie income managers underperforming

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2016
... Investors planning for retirement have been warned to stick to fundamentals in the wake of new data showing Australian equity fund managers with an income objective have delivered below-market returns in recent years. Income funds covered by Lonsec returned ...

SPIVA report paints sad picture for active management

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2016
The latest S&P Dow Jones Indices Versus Active Funds (SPIVA) report shows that the majority of Australian active managers underperformed their respective benchmarks over five-year periods. The one exception to this rule was Australian equity small- ...

Active management tax effects erode investor returns

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 31 MAR 2016
Any pre-tax alpha gained by active fund managers can be absorbed by detrimental tax effects according to new research from the Centre for International Finance and Regulation (CIFR). Continuing its research in active management, CIFR has examined the ...

SSGA Aussie equity fund added to Asgard platform

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2016
A State Street Global Advisors Australian equity fund has been added to the Asgard eWRAP platform. The benchmark-unaware Australian equity fund is managed by SSGA's active quantitative equity team, and has achieved a total 10.69% return over five years ...