FUNDS MANAGEMENT

Funds management

Walsh and Company Asset Management’s Emerging Markets Masters Fund closed out 2015 as the top performing fund in the sector a second successive year....

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....

Funds management

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

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...

People & Products

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

People & Products

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

Superannuation

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

Funds management

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

Funds management

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

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....

Funds management

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

Funds management

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

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....

Superannuation

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

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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