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William Blair ramps up bid to win super fund mandates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... International Leaders and Emerging Markets Leaders equity funds. Portfolio manager Ken McAtamney said that the investment strategy behind those funds focuses on companies which offered prospects for more sustained returns than the wider market expects. ...

CheckRisk opens in Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2013
... need to adjust how they manage their fund. "Risk assessment is not asset consulting, it doesn't recommend investment strategy. Instead it's only concerned with factors that are impacting the likelihood that the fund may not achieve its investment goals," ...

LUCRF's new growth option targets lower volatility

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
... opportunity of windfall gains that might come with strongly rising markets," said Ben Samild head of LUCRF Super Investment Strategy. Recent research from Rainmaker Information shows that super fund returns are 96% correlated to equity markets, a fact ...

NSW State Super appoints investment head

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... responsibilities included coverage of diversified funds, Australian and New Zealand equities, fixed interest, investment strategy and economics and private equity. "We are delighted that Mark has joined the State Super team," commented NSW State Super ...

CBUS to review products to tempt SMSFs

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
... which it said depends on investment market performance towards the end of 2013. CBUS executive manager of investment strategy Kristian Fok told Financial Standard this morning that while it probably would not be doing the same thing as HOSTPLUS, it was ...

Media super ups disclosure, lodges MySuper application

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... "The government has specified a list of key features that a MySuper option must contain including a simple investment strategy with no commissions or entry fees. "Media Super's current default investment, the Balanced option, already contains many of ...

VicSuper and Aust Ethical adopt after-tax benchmark

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... Macri, CIO, Australian Ethical Superannuation will greatly assist the ability to measure the success of their investment strategy which has a strong focus on maximising the after-tax returns for members. Meantime, Julie Andrews, director of FTSE Group ...

Another former asset consultant joins Cbus

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2013
... $19 billion fund. As a consultant with Frontier Advisors, Chatfield worked on an overhaul of the fund's investment strategy, before leaving Frontier for a position at Challenger, said Cbus executive manager of investment strategy Kristian Fok. The ...

Structural shifts reposition EMs as less risky investments

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2013
... stability and lower volatility, according to US based asset manager, Neuberger Berman. Alan Dorsey, head of investment strategy at the US-based asset manager, says that greater economic and political certainty within emerging market countries is making ...

Commodities boom over: UBS

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... investment over the last decade is well and truly over, according to UBS's Mark Rider. The Australian head of investment strategy, who has also worked for the Reserve Bank of Australia as head of economic activity and forecasting, says that the combined ...