Understanding active performance, particularly in equities, is darn hard. At its most simple you have a product, which makes a return, and you compare that return with a benchmark index. What is left ...

Sometimes a story flickers on your screen for an instant. You might pay attention. You might not. It's not until sometime later that you realise it was actually really important. On August 23 the Financial ...

Far from the public spotlight most skirmishes in the Australian funds management industry go unremarked. One such skirmish is occurring right now. The VanEck Vectors Australian Equal Weight and the BetaShares ...

It's no secret Australians have a fascination with property, and not just residential property. REITs (or Real Estate Investment Trusts) were first developed in the US in the 1960s with Australia launching ...

Over three years the Colonial First State Global Health & Biotechnology Fund was the top performer in the international equities space, returning 20.1% pa after fees to August 2017. Over five years ...

An interesting email crossed my desk the other day. It was from VanEck, one of the up-and-coming manufacturers of exchange-traded funds in the Australian market. The interest was on a number of levels.

Napoleon Bonaparte might well have been discussing investment managers. It's an old truism that funds management performance is a mix of luck and skill, we just don't know which part is luck and which ...

With enhanced disclosures required under RG 97 the level of fees being charged to investors in managed investment vehicles becomes more important than ever. Here we are focusing on unit trusts and Exchanged ...

Investments held within managed accounts can include direct domestic and increasingly international equities, directly held fixed interest securities, listed investment companies (LICs), model port- ...