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Catholic Super seeds new AllianceBernstein fund

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
Catholic Super has become the first investor in a new actively-managed AllianceBernstein Australian equities investment fund which aims to help investors in or near retirement. The Fund will form part of diversified investment options available to Catholic ...

JANA awards $385m mandate to Californian manager

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
JANA Investment Advisers (JANA) has awarded a $385 million global equity mandate Los Angeles-based asset manager Causeway Capital Management. Specifically, the mandate was awarded to Causeway's developed markets large-cap strategy Global Value Equity. ...

Towers Watson urges instos to consider smart beta

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
Investment consultant Towers Watson has thrown its support behind smart beta approaches to investment, recommending institutional investors revisit their equity strategies to incorporate the lower cost products. In a new publication, Global equity investing ...

May worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
You can almost taste it. It's nearly here. That time of year when that age-old Wall Street adage tells us to go away. May is coming! And right on cue, we get spooks from renewed and escalated tension in the Ukraine and more evidences of a slowing China ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
The share market is continuing its upward momentum, opening higher after low inflation data prompted a rally. US markets were weaker overnight but upbeat quarterly earnings reports released by Apple and Facebook after the close of trade sparked rises ...

Larry Fink pays tribute to Australian super system

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
BlackRock chairman and chief executive Larry Fink has endorsed Australia's superannuation system in a recent letter to shareholders. As the world's largest asset manager celebrates its 25th anniversary, Fink's note highlighted the unpreparedness of ...

Market wrap AM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2014
The Australian market looks set to open higher despite Wall Street closing lower following a broad sell-off of tech stocks. At 0645 AEST on Thursday, the June share price index futures contract was up 20 points at 5,529. Locally, no major economic news ...

Not too late for super to start on big data

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
It's not too late for superannuation funds to start using big data to understand their members' needs, the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) chief executive Tom Garcia wrote in a recent blog on his LinkedIn profile. "What do footy ...

PM Capital Emerging Asia added to Macquarie Wrap

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
The PM Capital Emerging Asia Fund has been added to the Macquarie Wrap platform. PM Capital is a bottom-up stock-picker whose approach is based on fundamental analysis. The fund manager said that this philosophy is important to differentiate the strategy ...

TAL appoints chief risk officer

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014