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Super in-house investment no threat to fund managers

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
The tendency for big super funds to move investment in-house is no cause for alarm for investment managers, according to Principal Global Investors chief executive Grant Forster. Forster said that while funds bringing investment in-house - such as AustralianSuper ...

Boutiques no longer have performance edge

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
... indistinguishable," said the researcher. They said boutiques have a significant role to play in the funds management market but as fund managers who can demonstrate value through their strategies, fees or an opportunity set. Relying on their 'boutiqueness' ...

Catastrophe bonds offer answer to asset correlation problem

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 11 OCT 2013
... Plenum Investments Australia (the local division of the Swiss asset manager) is courting interest from Australian fund managers and institutions that have done their research and have an appetite for the asset class but lack the expertise to manage ILS ...

Baker & McKenzie tells industry to prepare for SIV 'bonanza'

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... association with the SIV having advised the team that originally pitched the idea to the government. Now they act for fund managers in developing SIV-complaint funds. The visa itself was introduced in November 2012 to attract migrants with a demonstrated ...

Signing of Asia Passport agreement expected

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013
... agreement is known, will make it easier for Australians to invest directly in Asian equities and allow domestic fund managers greater access to outside sources of funding. Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive John Brogden, who has lobbied ...

YBR and Morphic partner with Winston Capital

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
Winston Capital Partners is consolidating its presence as a third party distributor for fund managers after it achieved two key agreements with investment management firms. Winston launched a year ago and has now partnered with Yellow Brick Road to ...

Retirees see silver lining of slowing mining boom

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 19 SEP 2013
... the dividend of that investment process in the likes of Woodside." In the medium term, this will be good news for fund managers such as Plato and Tyndall, which offer equities products that optimise yield for low- and no-tax investors. Newcomers to the ...

Finance industry integrity called into question

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... financial literacy experts believed in the integrity of advisers. Investor and consumers' opinion was between these two. Fund managers also ranked poorly, with 25% of respondents saying that they don't operate with integrity, while 26% thought they did. ...

Hedge fund maestro Hintze voices concern over regulation

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 12 SEP 2013
... don't understand how hedge funds could ever be responsible for [a systemic collapse]. Hintze does concede that hedge fund managers do have a responsibility to act in the interests of their investors and acknowledges that in the run up to the financial ...

ASIC finds hedge funds pose no systemic risk

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 SEP 2013
... systemic impact of any problems in the sector. With over US$19 billion in assets, listed equities are the surveyed fund managers' greatest gross exposures, with almost one-third of this being Australian equities. Equity derivatives and G10 sovereign ...