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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 ...

BetaShares launches new bond ETF

CHLOE WALKER  |  MONDAY, 7 FEB 2022
... of Australian bonds. The new ETF, ticker code OZBD, aims to track the Bloomberg Australian Enhanced Yield Composite Bond Index, before fees and expenses. This index weights bonds based on their risk-adjusted income potential rather than debt-weighting ...

Munro launches new fund

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2022
... fund, the Munro Concentrated Global Growth Fund. It aims to achieve a return greater than the MSCI World (Ex-Australia) Index over a five-to-seven-year period. Munro Partners chief investment officer Nick Griffin said the investment strategy is designed ...

New study on precious metal hedge

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2022
... metals: gold, silver, palladium, platinum, nickel, lead, zinc, copper, and aluminium. They also assessed the "spillover index" between these metals and regional/global equity markets. By looking at these factors, they were able to perform a portfolio ...

2021 lined homeowners' pockets: Data

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
... average of 20%. It was the third best calendar year return in 17 years for super funds, with Rainmaker's super returns index climbing 142% in the last decade. "The big surprise in these results is that while everyone is talking about house price ...

BetaShares adds e-commerce ETF to thematic range

CHLOE WALKER  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2022
... revenues from one of three online retail business segments: online retail, online travel, and online marketplace. IBUY's index constituents currently include global powerhouses such as Amazon, PayPal, Ebay, Tencent and Alibaba, as well as vertical specialists ...

Plato launches net zero fund

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... emitters." Incepted in September 2021, the strategy has so far achieved a return of 8.29%. Its benchmark, the MSCI World Index, has achieved 4.38%. "We know an average sized SMSF invested in the ASX 200 requires 3135 trees to get to net zero, so I think ...

VGI chief executive resigns amid takeover

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 31 JAN 2022
... months. Prior to VGI, Howie headed BlackRock's Australian iShares business from 2014 to 2018 and then became head of index equity for Asia Pacific. VGI chair Robert Luciano said: "We thank Jonathan for his contribution to VGI Partners over the past ...

Australians plough record cash into managed funds

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  MONDAY, 24 JAN 2022
... almost three times as much cash into managed equity funds in 2021 as they did in 2020, according to the latest Fund Flow Index from Calastone. Fund inflows rose to $35.7 billion across all assets in 2021, up from $13.6 billion in 2019 and 2020. Equity ...