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European DC Pension market to hit A$3.7tr by 2015

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 NOV 2011
European retail pension mutual funds will grow to A$3.7 trillion within four years and investment managers and product providers must expand their thinking about product to keep up. In their latest report on the sector, research group Cerulli said that ...

Touchstone acquires Old Mutual assets

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... said the Old Mutual assets would add several new sub-advisers to its roster of fund managers. Most of the 17 Old Mutual funds will remain as standalone funds following Touchstone's acquisition, sub-advised by Old Mutual affiliates. Touchstone distributes ...

US$50bn US manager lands in Sydney

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... local emerging market debt through a range of investment vehicles, including separate accounts, commingled funds and mutual funds. Artio said that it would bring "select offerings to the local institutional market" with an initial focus on its global ...

Tora improves electronic platform

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 26 MAY 2011
... can also provide order, portfolio, fund and regulatory compliance checks. Tora Compass clients include hedge funds, mutual funds and proprietary trading desks, who will be able to view audit trails and order history through the software. Chris Jenkins ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAR 2011
... Reserve. Stocks rose broadly. All of the 10 groups rose in the Standard & Poor's 500 index, the basis for most US mutual funds. The Dow gained 161.29 points, or 1.4 per cent, to 11,774.59. The index fell 242 points on Wednesday, its largest drop since ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... Brands Inc, Nordstrom Inc and Gap Inc all gained more than four per cent. The S&P 500 - the benchmark for most US mutual funds - was down 0.56 point, or 0.04 per cent, at 1,303.47 in mid-afternoon trade. The Dow Jones industrial average was down 0.07 ...

Platinum feels the force of term deposits

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... market." "By contrast, retail investor confidence both globally and in Australia remains fragile. In the US, equity mutual funds flows have been negative for 23 consecutive weeks and year to date redemptions total US$80 billion," he said. Cole said that ...

Politics shape investment choices: study

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... more susceptible to concerns of market uncertainty, leading to choices of familiar, local stocks and picked active mutual funds with high fees. The researchers looked at statistics from the UBS/Gallup Investor Optimism Survey between 1991 to 2002 as ...

Demystifying the "flash crash"

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) concluded that a large algorithmic sell order in futures markets, executed by a mutual funds manager to hedge ETF exposure, was the root case of the volatility, which saw US markets drop nearly 9 per cent in a ...

Bond rush

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... Internet bubble, stoking concern fixed-income markets are headed for a fall. Investors poured $480.2 billion into mutual funds that focus on debt in the two years ending June, compared with the $496.9 billion received by equity funds from 1999 to 2000 ...