T. Rowe Price brings research-backed equity | Australian Markets

Active world equities specialist, T. Rowe Price, has introduced its flagship actively managed, research-backed world equity strategy to the Australian market.

The strategy leverages the collective expertise of the firm’s Structured Research Equity methods (SRS) and its portfolio management group and the may of its world analysis platform, to offer Australian traders a diversified world equities alternative.

The mum or dad strategy usually holds roughly 750 to 1,000 stocks primarily based on the stock choice processes utilised by 70 world analysts, grounded in experience and analysis. The Australian subsidiary, launched in each hedged and unhedged Australian Unit Trust merchandise, seeks to generate constant returns all through the market cycle and is designed in alignment with the MSCI All Country World ex Australia Net Index.

According to the investment supervisor, the strategy additionally seeks to “offer a low tracking error alternative to passive equity allocations, providing benchmark-like volatility and risk characteristics with the added opportunity for long-term capital appreciation”.

“With a track record of actively investing in the stock market spanning over eight decades, T. Rowe Price has an unparalleled understanding of industries and companies,” Darren Hall, Head of Australia and New Zealand, T. Rowe Price, stated.

“We satisfaction ourselves on our bottom-up elementary analysis, so this can be very pleasing to offer Australian traders entry to a portfolio that harnesses the best of what we do.

“The Global Structured Research Equity Strategy enhances our present world equity methods by offering traders a differentiated resolution — one that mixes the advantages of a benchmark-oriented portfolio with the deep insights and stock-picking experience of our skilled analysts.

“This enables us to address a broader range of investor preferences and objectives as part of our comprehensive global equities offering.”