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Active returns at their worst since 2009

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2017
The majority of Australian actively-managed funds in all categories underperformed their respective benchmarks in calendar 2016 - the first time this has happened since 2009. Over the 12 months to December 31, the 2016 S&P Dow Jones Indices Versus Active ...

Australian funds rank well on ESG

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
Australian equity fund managers tend to rank higher than their global peers when it comes to incorporating environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in their investment decisions, Lonsec Research has found. According to the researcher's newly ...

BT High Service List adds Australian equity fund

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 1 SEP 2016
BT Financial Group's High Service List has added a new Australian equity fund. The T. Rowe Price Australian Equity Fund came about after the investment firm, which had already been investing in Australian shares via offshore vehicles, set up a dedicated ...

Investors Mutual readying income focused LIC

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2016
Investors Mutual (IML), the boutique Australian equity fund manager founded by Anton Tagliaferro, has flagged its intention to launch a new income focused listed investment company (LIC). The investment strategy of the new vehicle will replicate the ...

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 ...