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BT setting a new course in alternatives

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2007
... on at the moment that we hope to be bringing to these funds within the next six months and several beyond those on the research and development agenda." IWL's recent ratings reviews awarded BT's four multi-managers buy ratings, with the individual attributes ...

Bluestone targets the smaller end of town

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 5 FEB 2007
... offering reverse mortgages. Bluestone Commercial is bankrolled by Barclays Bank. Its establishment comes on the back of research that found there was a deficiency in servicing the borrowing needs of small owner-managed businesses, self-employed sole ...

QIC moves AQR mandate to long-short

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
... information generated by AQR's sophisticated quantitative models." QIC head of implemented equities, Greg Liddell, said their research indicated the long-only mandate was not capturing the best of AQR's capabilities. "Clearly AQR is one of the world's ...

IMCA annoints new chair

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 1 FEB 2007
... chairs Simon Ibbetson (Standard & Poor's), Tony Cole (Mercer Investment Consulting) and Ray King (Sovereign Investment Research) in leading the IMCA Australia Board," she said. "With the support of our members, IMCA Australia has cemented its role in ...

MIA predicts property slump by 2010

One of the longest property booms in Australian history will end by 2010, according to research house Managed Investment Assessments (MIA) based on its sector report polling the views of eight of the country's leading property fund managers. Colonial ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... underpinning consumer inflation. Analysis of the Whitehorse Report produced for the Centre for Innovative Industries Economic Research mentioned in yesterday's economic note has revealed that our comment that NSW grew jobs by 35 per cent and Victoria ...

Time to talk about asset classes: MTAA Super

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... holing of assets," said Watson. Watson said the problem is exacerbated when managed fund researchers try to apply standard research templates to more progressive super funds when doing research for financial planners. "We see ourselves as round pegs ...

Past performance still a bad future indicator: S&P

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... 12 month periods. The incidence for maintaining top-quartile rankings were even tighter at less than 3 per cent, the research group said. Srikant Dash, S&P index strategist, said, "Standard & Poor's research suggests that screening for top-quartile funds ...

AMP Capital Investors appoints portfolio manager

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 JAN 2007
... joins AMP Capital Investors from JANA Investment Advisors where she held a role with dual responsibility for investment research and client advisory services. Boone will have input into the development and enhancement of investment strategies for the ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  TUESDAY, 30 JAN 2007
... Business confidence, a different measure to business conditions, fell 4 points which was the lowest level for last year. Research by the Centre for Innovative Industries Economic Research shows that over the examination period from July 2003 to December ...