FUNDS MANAGEMENT

Funds management

Mergers and acquisitions activity is expected to rise through 2016 as an investment option in the current low growth, low dollar environment, a funds manager believes....

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Funds management

BetaShares’ Managed Risk Australian Share Fund has secured a “recommended” rating from Lonsec, less than three months after it was launched....

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Funds management

Perpetual Investments’ Diversified Real Return Fund has surpassed its target of CPI plus five per cent while delivering low volatility compared to the ASX 200 over the la...

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People & Products

Man GLG has appointed a new emerging market debt strategies head, who will report to the firm’s co-chief executive....

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People & Products

ACBC has launched an exchange traded bond-specific website that specifically targets advisers and investors....

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Superannuation

Industry funds have regained their investment performance ascendancy on the back of their heavier exposures to unlisted assets. ...

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Funds management

ASIC vows to continue scrutiny of margin lending after finding issues around double-geared margin loans....

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Funds management

Global share strategies beat their Australian counterparts on average, with the median manager returning 12.7 per cent on an unhedged basis....

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Funds management

Perpetual Limited is starting 2016 on a high after seeing its FUM rise by $2.5 billion to $30.9 billion in the second quarter of the financial year....

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Funds management

Investors are being urged not to forego emerging markets despite gloom and doubt over their economies....

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Funds management

International investment manager, Neuberger Berman, is moving forward with plans to expand its Taiwan team to serve its growing client-base....

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Funds management

Early year stockmarket jitters are fuelling surge of investment in exchange traded products as investors eye low-cost options, Van Eck Global reports....

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Superannuation

The Financial Services Council has warned the Government against sacrificing national retirement savings to appease critics of the super tax concessions....

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Superannuation

The Assistant Treasurer, Kelly O’Dwyer, has pointed to around 5000 enterprise agreements which are inappropriately eliminating choice from default super....

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Superannuation

Heated discussion has emerged around a Victorian Liberal Party Senate candidate who also happens to be a policy adviser within an industry fund....

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