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NAB Super restructures alternatives portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... favour of international equities. In the balanced option, Aussie equities received a 3 per cent allocation cut for global shares.

Global and Asian mandates up for grabs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 AUG 2010
... mandates should look at the London Borough of Redbridge Pension Fund, which is keen to award $270 million in funds to global shares managers. According to a tender statement, the fund is looking to award a passive global equity mandate to the sum of ...

Alaska SWF beats target return by 2pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
... fund's US stock portfolio returned close to 16 per cent while the non-US portfolio returned close to 12 per cent. The global shares portfolio posted similar returns of over 11 per cent. While the real estate portfolio returns aren't available until September ...

Perennial invests in oil equipment stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
... the BP disaster. Clay Carter, head of international equities at Perennial Investment Partners, said the Perennial Global Shares High Alpha fund has shareholdings in US-based businesses Cooper Cameron and FMC Technologies. This follows the BP Deepwater ...

Aurora wins $190m Optimix mandate

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 11 MAY 2010
... results announcements. The funds will be invested in a separately managed account (SMA) using the Aurora Sandringham Global Shares Fund strategy, which focuses on generating alpha from the Earnings Announcement Premium (EAP). The EAP strategy exploits ...

Fairview joins Alpha managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... multi-manager funds in large market capitalisation Australian shares, small to mid market capitalisation Australian shares, global shares, fixed interest securities, and property securities. Alpha Fund Managers is a wholly owned subsidiary of Infocus ...

E*Trade opens to overseas markets

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
... New York Stock Exchange and Hong Kong Stock Exchange using the same processes as trading on the ASX. The firm's Global Shares service allows customers to access 11 of the world's largest equity markets including the London Stock Exchange and the NASDAQ ...

CFS to hire ESG manager

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 4 MAR 2010
... management arm of Commonwealth Bank, with more than $145 billion in funds under management across Australian and global shares, short term investments, fixed interest and credit, property securities, direct property, global resources, unlisted infrastructure ...

Planners sidelined for self-investing strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... showing a growing favour towards overseas shares. Around 56 per cent of Gen Yers stated they were likely to invest in global shares, compared to just 29 per cent of Gen Xers and 13 per cent of the Baby Boomer generation. Familiarity with the local stock ...

Canadian pensions stage Q3 recovery

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
Canadian pensions have bounced back in the third quarter of this year, with local bonds and global shares the major contributors to the recovery. According to a RBC Dexia Investor Services survey, which monitors Canadian pension plans and money managers ...