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AAP  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
... expected on the final day of the September quarter. IG market strategist Evan Lucas said that hedge funds and large fund managers were balancing their books in line with trading strategies after recent heavy losses. At the start of Tuesday, the ASX200 ...

InSync lists global equity fund on mFund

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 30 SEP 2014
InSync Fund Managers has made its Global Titans Fund available on the ASX mFund settlement service. The fund aims to give investors exposure to sectors that are not readily available in the Australian share market, such as global healthcare IT, consumer ...

PIMCO moves to calm investors in wake of 'bond king' exit

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 29 SEP 2014
... Australian institutional clients invest with PIMCO, including some of the country's largest superannuation schemes and fund managers. None of the investors Financial Standard contacted were willing to comment on what the news would mean for their allocations. ...

Bespoke approach key to keeping mandates: Acadian

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
Fund managers must offer their super fund clients more bespoke services if they want to stay in the game, according to Acadian head of investments in Australia David Walsh. Walsh said the move among larger super funds towards more in house investment ...

Legg Mason receives first mFund inflow

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... testimony to the achievement of the ASX-driven initiative." There are currently 61 funds listed on mFund, provided by 19 fund managers, and seven brokers. The service launched in May. As yet the major bank-owned brokers, which account for 76% of the ...

Ratings downgrade to trigger hybrid sell-off

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 25 SEP 2014
... cases. FIIG head of markets Craig Swanger said S&P's move, which it flagged in a report last week, may force many fund managers still holding these securities and financial planners to dump the hybrids because they were not allowed to hold investments ...

ASFA releases 'first of its kind' best practice paper

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... understand it, the only template funds management agreement in the system used by the industry was drafted by the fund managers. I have nothing against fund managers," she added, "but they think differently to a fiduciary. So I thought, we've got to ...

ASX mFund yet to attract major brokers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 22 SEP 2014
... continue to watch its progress. Nabtrade and Westpac meanwhile declined to comment. By listing their funds on the ASX, fund managers hope to tap the as-yet inaccessible well of funds from un-advised self-managed superannuation funds (SMSFs). But according ...

How to win family office mandates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... prepared to wait years to earn their trust, a panel of family office executives has said. Addressing an audience of fund managers at the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA)'s Hedge Fund Forum in Sydney yesterday, four prominent family ...

Magellan sees "real tensions" in launching ASX-listed fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2014
... investors to go through "17-page applications." "People just don't do it," Cairns said. In recent months, several fund managers have launched ASX-listed funds, or have announced their intention to do it. Those include Manny Pohl's Barrack St Investment ...