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Inaugural Technical Paper of the Year awarded

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2017
... models scalable'. "It's a technical paper that manages to achieve the impossible - discuss all the interlocking industry megatrends then deftly bringing it all back to the core topic of managed accounts. It also challenges the reader to rethink their ...

Top trends reshaping Aussie superannuation

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAY 2017
... Australian superannuation industry, according to software provider Bravura Solutions. In its latest Superannuation Megatrends report, the provider found that after a period of significant reform, the super industry is facing a new wave of demographic ...

Insync appoints portfolio manager

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAR 2017
... management." "He shares a similar philosophy to ours of investing in high-quality businesses that are benefiting from global megatrends, combined with the active management of downside risk," Kotecha said. The Global Titans fund aims to deliver a return ...

Global investors missed turning point

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 3 JAN 2017
... there will still be 1.9 billion children but they will comprise 20% of the world's population. Insync researches global megatrends to help position its international equities portfolio and the comments come from a soon-to-be released white paper discussing ...

Cities over countries for TH Real Estate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 10 OCT 2016
... representation. We have adopted an innovative, two-pronged approach to our top-down analysis, capturing both structural megatrends and tactical real estate fundamentals, to identify 'futureproof' cities," she said. The most recent research report from ...

TH Real Estate completes first close of European Cities Fund

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... are looking beyond short term uncertainty and still see value in long term defensive strategies backed by demographic megatrends, driving growth in successful cites. "The founding principles of our European Cities strategy are to look through market ...

Top companies still in the dark on ESG

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUN 2016
... improvement to risk management governance practices, shareholder groups and activists are also calling on boards to include megatrends in their risk profiling. She said megatrends can be characterised as "major global societal and transformative forces ...

Titans Fund added to Macquarie Wrap

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 14 AUG 2015
... feature of our approach is to invest in exceptional businesses that are benefitting from secular high growth global megatrends which are difficult to gain exposure to via the Australia stock market," Insync Funds Management chief investment officer Monik ...

Zurich identifies investment megatrends

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2015
Zurich Financial Services has identified five megatrends which it believes will determine the most plausible investment opportunities for the medium to long-term. In a new whitepaper, titled "Investable Megatrends", the company identifies factors - ...

Responsible investment takes centre stage at ASFA conference

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 14 NOV 2013
... Speaking about the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UNPRI), Robertson said: "These are ideological megatrends uncharted by the CSIRO that may impact on your [superannuation trustees'] work." He went on: "How do we factor moral megatrends ...