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Active manager mandates to increase: Mercer

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Mercer, one of the country's largest asset consultants, is advising its institutional clients to allocate more funds with active managers to capture the one-off abnormal returns coming out of stockmarkets as they switch into recovery mode. Simon Eagleton ...

BT Global Macro gains three stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... & Poor's, the BT fund doesn't take large intra and inter-sector bets between asset classes. Instead, the actively managed fund aims to generate alpha from market neutral top down strategies. Simon Scott, Standard & Poor's fund services analyst, said ...

Mercer invests $35m in commodities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 NOV 2008
... Instreet launched a fund that provides exposure to the Schroders Alternative Solutions Commodity fund, an actively managed fund that provides equity exposure to 60 underlying commodities.

Instreet calls on expertise for funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 OCT 2008
... Solutions Commodity Fund, which has approximately $3.5 billion in funds under management. "This open ended actively managed fund considers a set of up 60 commodities, with a close focus on 40, that are analysed on a weekly basis," said George Lucas ...

Fund managers must raise benchmarks

The role of the active manager is not just to provide investors with above-benchmark returns but to keep raising those benchmarks, said Paul Fiani, head of Australian equities boutique fund Integrity. Passive managers have grown in popularity as one ...

BankWest branches into super

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2007
BankWest has propelled itself onto the superannuation market with Lite Super, a low cost, indexed based super fund accessible online. Lite Super provides no entry or exit fees, a 1.25 per cent ongoing fee, four diversified indexed investment choices ...

Core-satellite investing gets the balance right

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2007
Index manager Vanguard Investments has urged advisers to use the core-satellite approach to boost returns and reduce the volatility of their clients' portfolios. A popular model in the US, core-satellite investing combines a 'core' portfolio of indexed ...

Vanguard puts case for passive-active allocation

An asset allocation expert from leading index manager Vanguard has put forward the case for a portfolio construction model that invests around 40 per cent in active strategies. In a whistlestop visit to Australia, Nelson Wicas, a US based principal ...

Access all asset classes: Vanguard

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2006
... investors needed to make sure they "have realistic expectations of returns" and should consider whether an actively managed fund was really suited to their investment goals, and whether drilling down too far in chasing asset classes was really effort ...

Active managers bounce back in July; Mercer, InTech

The performance of actively managed Australian share funds turned higher in July, producing a greater outperformance in the month than the entire 2003/2004 financial year, according to InTech and Mercer surveys. "The median Australian shares manager ...