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Fidelity's Taylor kicks-off scholarship

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... established to encourage the next generation of fund managers. The London Business School and Paul Taylor, head of Australian equities at Fidelity Worldwide Investment, have established the Taylor Family Scholarship, which will allow recipients to further ...

Yield at any cost flawed: GSAM

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... has caused a preoccupation with yield and safe haven stocks, said Goldman Sachs Asset Management's head of Australian equities. Cost pressures, low productivity and the impact of a strong Australian dollar are causing uncertainty, despite falling interest ...

ETFs hit $6bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... still increased 16% to reach $5.7 billion, according to the ASX. This FUM is equivalent to about 9% of indexed Australian equities, based on separate research by Rainmaker, but only about 0.5% of stock market capitalisation. There are five major ETF ...

Super funds line up for Sevior

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2012
Veteran stock picker John Sevior's new fund is being reviewed by CBUS Super for an Australian Equities mandate. CBUS - which had an Australian equities mandate with Sevior's former employer Perpetual at the time of his departures - said that it is doing ...

MIR Investment Management re-brands

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 25 SEP 2012
... (MIR), today announced it would re-brand to Metisq Capital Pty Ltd (Metisq). MIR was established in 2003 as an Australian equities specialist. In 2007, MIR launched capabilities in the Asia region, and since then MIR continued to focus on managing high ...

Indexing reaches all time high

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... returns of the ASX, just reinforces this expectation; these ETFs now hold the equivalent of 9% of indexed Australian equities, the same level as last year but double the ratio of six years ago." The asset mix is also on the move with equities, which ...

Fidelity launches Aust equity income fund in Japan

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... briefing last week that the fund was developed and managed by Paul Taylor, who runs the highly-rated Fidelity Australian Equities Fund. While dividend yields have consistently increased in Asia in recent years, Australia is known to be one of the best-dividend ...

Investment management hit by downturn

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... mandate awarded to them by iPac Securities. In existence since 2003, the mandate was comprised exclusively of Australian equities. Valued at $1.2 billion, the lost mandate represents around 15% of BlackRock's total Australian equities FUM. According ...

No mandates lost over hybrid model: AustSuper

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... the next five years. AustralianSuper wants to manage funds internally, starting with the management of its Australian equities portfolio through a hybrid internal/external system. Innes McKeand, AustralianSuper's head of equities said that Australian ...

Aus Sup to manage 30% of own funds in 5 years

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... creating a hybrid internal/external management model with the establishment of an internal management team for Australian equities which will commence trading mid 2013. "AustralianSuper has the scale and capability to move from a model of almost entirely ...