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BOJ brings out big bazooka

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 APR 2013
You call that QE? This is QE! Haruhiko Kuroda san's debut at the helm of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) shocked and awed financial markets for he delivered much more than even the most optimistic had been expecting. Yes Virginia, the Bank of Japan (BOJ) has ...

MLC removes managers

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 13 DEC 2012
... Long-Term Absolute Return portfolio, said Peter Sumner, MLC Investment Management portfolio manager. Balanced Equity Management, DFA Australia, Maple-Brown Abbott and Northward Capital have each been removed from the Australian shares strategy in both ...

Asset Super awards mandates

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... Mercer Sentinel has been appointed transition manager to undertake the transfer of the investments into the Schroders and DFA pooled trusts. Asset has also reduced its hedging ratio on international equity portfolios from 40 per cent to 35 per cent based ...

LUCRF Super appoints global eq managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 APR 2010
Industry fund LUCRF Super has appointed Arrowstreet Capital LP, MFS Investment Management and DFA Australia (Dimensional) as its new international equity managers. The appointments follow the fund's international equity review, which is part of an overall ...

Alaska SWF tips $1bn into investments

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
... GMO being approved as a real return manager. GMO was given between $250 million and $500 million. Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA), a global small cap manager, was also approved by the board for two small cap mandates worth more than $200 million each. ...

Clay Finlay re-invents growth

... joining Clay Finlay, she was principal at US asset consultant Wilshire Associates, vice president at Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) and pensions and investments manager at PepsiCo. "For 21 years, I've looked at money managers as part of my responsibility ...

Intech shifts focus to after-tax

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
... the trust's active managers in lag through a centralised dealing desk. Intech has also appointed Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) to a value-oriented tax-based mandate. "Our work on after-tax investing has highlighted significant additional benefits that ...

Another Dimension to DFA

Flush from the success of its current suite of products, leading fund manager Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) has today launched a new fund that follows the same winning formula but with a global tilt. DFA senior portfolio manager Andrew Cain said that ...

DFA funds "holy grail" research on Aussie equities

One of the leading passive fund managers in the world, Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) has funded an Australian-based research to find the "holy grail" model of evaluating Australian equities. UQ Business School's head Professor Tim Brailsford, Monash ...

Credit Suisse pulls MasterWrap off the shelves

... clients to other wraps and is considering using either Macquarie or BT wrap. As an investor in Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA), he said he is limited to choosing the wraps that will provide DFA. Matthew Rady, head of product and marketing for Macquarie ...