Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 1131 - 1140 of 2579 results for "Fund managers"

Fund managers expect clients to turn aggressive

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2014
Almost half the world's fund managers expect their institutional clients to adopt a more aggressive investment strategy in 2014, according to a global survey by Towers Watson. The survey, including responses from 128 investment managers (the majority ...

UCA introduces fossil fuel screening

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 28 FEB 2014
... fund manager, which is associated with the Uniting Church in Australia, will join a very small group of Australian fund managers that have a specific screening policy on fossil fuels, including Australian Ethical. UCA will screen thermal coal, used in ...

Capital Group appoints two senior executives

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 18 FEB 2014
... take the RE role in-house are further steps in this journey." Capital Group is one of the world's largest active fund managers with more than US$1.2 trillion in assets under management.

SunGard launches a faster STP processor

HARRY PAGE  |  FRIDAY, 14 FEB 2014
... Systems (SunGard) has announced the launch of a fully automated order processing and control solution for hedge fund managers, fund administrators and private equity firms. Asset Arena Data Connect, the new processing solution, has been designed to speed ...

Emulation funds slash performance as well as cost

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 FEB 2014
... from the Macquarie Graduate School of Management Zhe Chen said. "Related to this, the research suggests that active fund managers have some skill in the inter-day timing of their trades and taking away their timing discretion may be costly." The research ...

Industry groups self-interest caused FoFA problems

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 FEB 2014
... "It's there for all to see why all the special interest groups comprising institutions, advisers, associations, fund managers, etcetera have been so active through their lobbyists and lobbying activities," he said. He asked industry stakeholders to adopt ...

Emerging market turmoil is a buying opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 3 FEB 2014
... opportunity to buy quality companies at a more attractive price, according to global large cap specialist Insync Fund Managers. The fund house is not altering its portfolio despite emerging market stocks suffering their worst start to a year since 2008. ...

FEATURE: The myth of the outlook

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 31 JAN 2014
... financial journalists are inundated with investment outlooks for the year ahead. It has become almost mandatory for fund managers, asset consultants, banks, and other financial institutions to publish pieces in which they take stock of the past year ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

HARRY PAGE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JAN 2014
... Standard Chief Economist Forum. In our feature story we look at investors' demand for outlook articles and updates from fund managers and ask what they really teach us much about the future investment landscape. We've also got all the details of the ...

Is 'unbundling' the future of broking?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014
... that the BestEx model is more appropriate in an environment in which best execution is increasingly important. "Fund managers now have at their fingertips the ability to use technology to get the best price; they now have algorithms to execute their ...