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T.Rowe Price wins Chinese govt fund mandate

... Social Security Fund (SSF) of China, one of only 10 non-Chinese investment managers selected by the US$25 billion-plus pension fund. The SSF, similar to Australia's Future Fund, made the announcements this week and chose T.Rowe Price out of more than ...

VFMC to take investments in-house

The Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) is set to review all of its externally managed investments and move as many as possible in-house, part of a new strategy spearheaded by the group's recently appointed chief investment officer, Leo de ...

Active extension moves into Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
Investors looking to boost alpha while still constraining risk are looking to active extension investing. Active extension investing is when a portfolio manager operates their fund according to a fixed ratio of long versus short investing and where ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 NOV 2006
... Britain's FTSE 100 index rose for the first day in five after British Airways reached agreement on a long-standing pension fund dispute. The FTSE 100 closed up 43.2 points at 6,229.8. FRANKFURT - The DAX index ended at 6,430.89 points, up 43.51 points. ...

Multiport SMSF receives UK pension roll-over approval

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 2 NOV 2006
Multiport and Vantage Financial have partnered to facilitate tax efficient UK pension fund transfers to Australia. SMSF provider Multiport and migration financial consultancy Vantage Financial have worked together to gain approval under the UK's Qualifying ...

Big banks pursue more exotic securitisation schemes

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 OCT 2006
ANZ is to double its collateralised loan obligation (CLO) business volumes to $2.2 billion using a deal offered through Resonance Funding Series 2006-1, a special purpose vehicle that will bundle a coupon rate through 110 corporate loans held by the ...

More growth through structured products and MAs

Structured products and managed or wrap accounts are the next cornerstones of the global investment funds sector, according to an on-the-spot poll of fund managers and other industry participants at the SIBOS conference held this week. The majority ...

DFA funds "holy grail" research on Aussie equities

... According to research estimates, the capital pool in Australia is growing fast and will overtake Japan as the largest pension fund market in the Asia Pacific by 2015. "The growth in Australian funds under management and the greater flexibility in choices ...

Hedge funds set to splurge on IT

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 1 SEP 2006
In the past the hedge funds sector has not proven fertile ground for IT providers, but a new report suggests all that is about to change with the sector's IT investment set to grow to $3.3 billion by 2009. A new report from Datamonitor, Securities Processing ...

Investors chase REITs for double-whammy returns

A growing number of investors are buying into real estate investment trusts (REITs) not just for yield but also for capital growth, according to Pengana's head of alternative strategies distribution Damien Hatfield. "There's been a subtle change in ...