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AMP Capital, Aberdeen score Advance mandates

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... management business owned by Westpac's BT Financial Group. The mandates will form part of the Advance Australian Fixed Interest Multi-Blend Fund, a specialised fixed interest fund that invests in Australian interest bearing securities such as Commonwealth ...

Cost pressures spark Vanguard fee cuts

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 19 JUN 2012
... will also halve from 0.36% to 0.18%. The new fee for the AUD hedged iteration will be 0.21% and the Australian Fixed Interest Index Fund will move to 0.24%, meaning equity investing will paradoxically be cheaper than bond investing. "This announcement ...

Towers Watson expands Aus investment team

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUN 2012
... holds a Bachelor of Science (Mathematics and Statistics) from the University of Auckland, joins the Australian Fixed Interest Manager Research Team from Melville Jessup Weaver, a Towers Watson affiliated company in New Zealand. "Ben's move from our New ...

BTIM fixed focus for new financial year

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 31 OCT 2011
... equities were down $300 million and cash down $300 million which was partially offset by inflows into Australian fixed interest which were up $500 million. "Our key core funds are well positioned with Australian Equities returning above benchmark. Our ...

Indexed FUM up 30% since GFC

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... second highest level for international equities indexing," they said. "Meanwhile indexing penetration for Australian fixed interest has stayed around 10% but for international fixed it's slid down to 12%, its lowest ever level as the fixed interest and ...

Asia Pacific $23.5bn local investment

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 18 OCT 2011
... is a counter-flow which takes monies back overseas. Similarly overseas property trusts made up 22.5%. Australian fixed interest (21.8%) and Australian shares (14.7%) comprise the next most popular choices," said the report. This is the first research ...

S&P/ASX create fixed income indices suite

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 13 OCT 2011
... with liquidity and transparency. The S&P/ASX Australian Fixed Income Index Series holds the S&P/ASX Australian Fixed Interest Index which measures the Australian bond market and the sub-sector indices, the S&P/ASX Government Bond Index, S&P/ASX Commonwealth ...

Perpetual: fixed income is back

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... equities, 25% international equities and the remaining broken up across international fixed interest, Australian fixed interest, cash, property and infrastructure. However the risk breakdown of that same portfolio showed a heavily skewed picture with ...

Super returns crash below 5%

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... researcher said direct property meanwhile earned 11% through the year, international fixed interest 9%, Australian fixed interest 7% and cash 5%. International shares were even worse, losing 2.5% through the year. The asset class differences resulted ...

Challenger taps CFSGAM head for retirement product

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 29 AUG 2011
... retirement income. He starts his fresh role today. Minney, who has also previously worked as head of Australian fixed interest at Macquarie, will be responsible for generating intellectual property in decumulation portfolio construction, investment strategy ...