For those investors who still like to try to pick next year’s top-performing asset class, the Russell Investment Group’s annual long-term performance numbers for the major asset classes after fees and taxes, published last week in association with the ASX, should provide interesting reading.
STRIPES | Emerging Markets Accelerator
Ord Minnett offers investors access to some of the world’s largest global emerging markets.
Mercer Income Plus Fund
Mercer combinestraditional and alternative asset classes for its latest multi-manager offering.
LINWAR Large Cap Quant Fund
LINWAR Funds Management launches a style-neutral quant fund for wholesale investors.
STRIPES | Emerging Markets Accelerator
Ord Minnett offers investors access to some of the world’s largest global emerging markets.
Liling relinquishes CIO role in Intech restructure
Ron Liling, the founder and largest shareholder of Intech Investment Consulting, will take a step back from management, relinquishing his chief investment officer role, in a restructure aimed at lifting the firm’s capacity to produce more complex structured investment strategies and products
Challenger downsizes IWL interest
The Challenger small caps fund sold down its shareholding in IWL last week from 7.43 per cent to 6.33 per cent.
Aberdeen beats the tax man
The Aberdeen Financials Fund has emerged as the most tax-efficient Australian equity product, according to a new study by Navigator Research.
Direct property market due for refurbishment
A predicted slump in the property market will transform the behaviour of fund managers in the sector, delegates at the seventh annual the Australian Direct Property Industry Association (ADPIA) were told yesterday.
SHAW offers to do it your way
SHAW Stockbroking has released a new ‘discretionary managed account’, which it claimed can sidestep the dangers and inflexibilty posed to investors by pooled vehicles.
Fund execs urged to look in the mirror
Fund executives need to ‘start with themselves’ if they truly want to understand how their trustee boards make decisions, according to Grant Brecht, an industrial psychologist. “The first place we need to start is ourselves and our personal style
Money might not bring happiness but it could cure malaria
At the UNHCR’s first Twilight Seminar, Jack Gray, global investment strategist at GMO, questioned the appropriateness of GDP as a measure of well-being and the possibility of introducing policies to discourage excessive hard work.
