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ESG funding booms in Australia: Calastone

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
... beneficiaries of Australians' cash last year but the nation still lags on a global scale, according to the last Global Fund Flow Index from Calastone. In an analysis covering over half a million buy and sell orders every month from January 2019, Calastone's ...

Biggest ever super merger completes

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2022
... you don't pay for active management where you believe it's hard to extract skill, because then you are paying for index-like returns," he explained. "So, we've had fairly substantial passive in our equities holdings and QSuper has been almost ...

EM investors brace for geopolitical impact

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
... closely, with the twin goals of being risk-aware and prioritising client interests". "Following a 14% rally in the MSCI Russia Index in 2021, the index has posted double-digit declines in 2022 as investors factor in the risk of sanctions, dividend cuts ...

Robeco introduces new indices

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
... introduced new low carbon indices rooted in the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Similar to Robeco's existing Multi-Factor Index range, the SDG Low-Carbon Indices are available for seven regions: Global AC, Global DM, Emerging Markets, US, Europe ...

Chief economist: Is this a buy op?

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 FEB 2022
... much Australia's sharemarket lost upon hearing the news that Russia has invaded Ukraine. Both the benchmark S&P/ASX200 index and the All Ordinaries index plunged by 3.0% on the day with FactSet reporting that, "Selling was indiscriminate with 11 ...

Chief economist: Thank you, Putin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 24 FEB 2022
... invasion of Ukraine. As many investors are aware, uncertainty isn't good for markets. So much so that that the CBOE VIX index - the "fear gauge" - has soared by 7.7% to 31.02 on the aforementioned headlines (its highest level since late January this ...

Private debt and YFYS: Research

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 18 FEB 2022
... fall under the Australian fixed interest YFYS performance benchmark, which uses the BACM0 Bloomberg Ausbond Composite 0+ Yr Index as the benchmark and permits 10bps for fees and an assumed tax rate of 15%. Note that tax has been ignored for the purposes ...

ETF industry loses $5bn

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2022
... ETFS Physical Palladium with a return of 30.8%, ETFS Ultra Short Nasdaq 100 Hedge Fund (18%) and the BetaShares Crude Oil Index ETF - Currency Hedged (Synthetic) at 17.8%. The BetaShares Australia 200 ETF saw the greatest inflows for the month, followed ...

Rest awards responsible investment mandate

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2022
The $70 billion industry fund, Rest, has awarded an investment mandate for its ethical investment option. The fund awarded an enhanced ESG mandate to Parametric and Calvert. The mandate is designed to provide further diversification to Rest's Sustainable ...

Magellan fund loses $1bn in five months

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2022
A Magellan fund has lost nearly $1 billion in the last five months of 2021, an analysis of the exchange-traded product sector reveals. Rainmaker Information's latest ETP Report found that the Magellan Global Fund Open Class lost $737 million in ...