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AMP Capital Investors grows real estate team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
AMP Capital Investors has appointed a new assistant portfolio manager to its global real estate securities team. Tim Gibson leaves Morgan Stanley to join the AMP Capital Investors team in London. He will be responsible for researching listed European ...

Online savings with Suncorp

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 27 APR 2007
... advantages over standard margin lending products. David Harry, manager of personal lending said, "We undertook extensive research to find out what investors wanted from their margin loans and the results were clear. Investors wanted a competitive product ...

LDI spurs growth of bond derivatives

... covering those pension liabilities," said ipac securities' chief investment officer Jeff Rogers. According to JP Morgan research, 10 per cent of pension funds in the UK now use LDI and that there are between 30 to 40 per cent who intend to adopt the ...

Former FuturePlus head gets in the Grove

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 24 APR 2007
Former FuturePlus chief executive officer, Brett Westbrook, is the new executive chairman of Grove Research & Advisory. Westbrook has taken a financial stake in the Grove business and brings more than 25 years experience to the business, including time ...

Rare coins and banknotes fund to raise $25m

... former Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) economist and chair of the fund's investment committee. According to Hindal's research, the 10-year compound annual return of a portfolio of rare pre-decimal coins and banknotes is 15.34 per cent. This compares ...

Crystal ball gets cloudy in wait for CPI figures

SUZY MAC  |  MONDAY, 23 APR 2007
... despite much speculation to the contrary, the central bank may leave rates on hold for another month. JP Morgan economic research out today states, "We expect 0.6 per cent quarter on quarter (qoq) for headline inflation and 0.7 per cent qoq for core. ...

MFS snaps up ex-BT hedge funds guru

... largest hedge funds in the country with nearly $1.5 billion in assets. Prior to BT, he was the Asia-Pacific head of private research and funds management firm A.G. Bisset & Company. "Creating this CIO position represents a significant milestone," said ...

Macq and UNSW do the maths

Macquarie Bank has teamed up with academics at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) to develop a faster mathematical method to calculate the risks of investing in highly complex finance products. Under the initiative, the bank will work with researchers ...

Fund managers better buyers than sellers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
... investments they have selected are inadvertently hurting their performance by making poor selling decisions, said quantitative research specialist Inalytics. "By their nature, fund managers are optimists. They're always looking for the next best position. ...

Advisers waiting for better SMAs: survey

... offer more products and more features before SMAs could become mainstream, according to an Investment Trends survey. Research firm Investment Trends has finished the first part of a dual survey on SMAs, one on the trends based on the supply side (the ...