funds management

Funds management

A Labor win could have posed a significant speed-bump for listed investment companies, according to Zenith Investment Partners....

Financial planning

New ‘no rules’ unsettles agricultural exports

Uncertainty from trade wars between the US and China has had an impact on the Australian agricultural sector, undermining its exports....

Funds management

Is US tech worth it?

Hexavest is standing by its conviction of being underweight US technology stocks, in the belief the companies are failing to live up to expectations....

Funds management

BetaShares launches India ETF

BetaShares has announced the launch of its new India Quality exchange traded fund, which will invest in a portfolio of high quality Indian companies....

Features

ETFs: Soon to be an adviser’s best friend?

Exchange-traded funds haven’t been offered on the Australian market for long. Their presence is already being strongly felt however, and Hannah Wootton looks at which pro...

Features

Fact Check: SGH Emerging Companies Fund

Laura Dew writes that the SGH Emerging Companies Fund is bouncing back from a difficult 2018 with a focus on technology and resources stocks....

Expert Analysis

Investing in inclusion: how banks are addressing poverty in emerging markets

Investing in improving the lives of those living in poverty in emerging markets not only has an altruistic advantage, Jack Nelson writes, but can benefit the companies th...

Expert Analysis

The long and the short of sustainable returns

Jun Bei Liu writes that there are many benefits to long/short investing, going far beyond the most obvious advantage of reaping the rewards of both rising and falling pri...

Awards

Aus Unity proves a stand-out property fund manager

Australian Unity is clearly doing something very right with its property investments, with its Retail Property Fund and Diversified Property Fund both being finalists for...

Awards

Focus on value puts Pendal atop property securities podium

Striving for value was key to the Pendal Property Securities Fund’s success over the last year, and its success in doing so saw it take out the Money Management Fund Mana...

Awards

Interest rate management a true value-add

In a year where credit markets didn’t treat funds well, the Janus Henderson Australian Fixed Interest Fund has come out on top of the Australian fixed income category, pa...

Funds management

AllianceBernstein takes Fund Manager of the Year mantle

AllianceBernstein (AB) has been crowned this year’s Fund Manager of the Year at the Money Management Fund Manager of the Year Awards, taking the title from Legg Mason, wh...

Funds management

RARE’s fund sees strong start to the year

RARE Infrastructure Income Fund has seen a very strong start to the year, with a return of 14.7 per cent for the three months to March....

Funds management

MSCI adds first 30 Saudi stocks to EM index

Index provider MSCI will add 30 Saudi Arabian stocks to its Emerging Markets index for the first time this month....

Funds management

Should ESG be made a regulatory necessity?

The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors has called for changes which would see environmental, social and governance considerations formally factored into regul...