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China A-shares ETFs launched

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 24 OCT 2017
... HKEX listed ETFs utilise a fundamental, multi-factor approach, and each consists of about 300 Shanghai and Shenzhen listed stocks. Both ETFs are physical A-shares ETFs utilising Stock Connect and have a total expense ratio of 0.50% compared to the 1% ...

Macquarie wins $50m small cap mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 20 OCT 2017
... fund has delivered 11.6% over the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries Index per annum. The strategy targets both value and growth stocks in a diversified portfolio of small listed or soon-to-be listed Australian companies. It can also provide exposure to equity ...

Standard Life launches impact fund, appoints managers

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2017
... by Aberdeen Standard Investment's Sarah Norris and Dominic Byrne. It will hold a high-conviction portfolio of 35 to 60 stocks, all which meet a series of criteria designed to reflect the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals. The criteria are ...

Advisers must provide more than financial health checks

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2017
... clients often turn up thinking we're only there to discuss how many zeroes they have in their bank accounts, or what hot new stocks they should be investing in. This means they can become quite surprised when we ask the last time they visited their dentist ...

Family-owned companies beating equity markets across all regions

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... caution against this," the report said. "First, we show that younger family-owned companies tend to be small-cap growth stocks, which has been a strong performing style and, second, family-owned companies themselves do not see succession planning as ...

Small cap veteran joins listed equities manager

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2017
... at an ASX-listed boutique. In his new role at Glennon Capital, Tim Powditch will focus on small and mid-cap ASX-listed stocks, working alongside chief investment officer Michael Glennon. Powditch has held portfolio management roles at Citigroup and BNP ...

Nothing to fear from robo-advice: Magellan

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 SEP 2017
... be meaningful in the way we manage money," he said. Speaking to his current investment thinking, Douglass sees value in stocks such as Google, Apple, Facebook and eBay because these companies have competitive scale advantages that will be tough to break ...

Ethical investing fruitful for income investors

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 19 SEP 2017
... according to AXA Investment Managers. A recent study by the firm shows carbon is heavily tilted towards utilities and materials stocks - two with high average dividend yields - and investors might have difficulty cutting carbon investment while continuing ...

Revisiting the active versus passive cage fight

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 SEP 2017
... problem is when a lot of those flows are going into sub-indices. On a flow-weighted basis, every single one of the top 10 stocks on the S&P 500 is receiving a greater proportion of its daily flow than its market cap would suggest," Cooper said. "And ...

Sole fund closed by Australian equities manager

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2017
... former UBS head of Australian equities Fiani, with its inaugural fund launched in the following October. The fund comprised stocks with superior underlying and "fundamental valuation" support via the Integrity Sustainable Valuation Process, incorporating ...