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Lonsec makes portfolio manager changes after review

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUL 2014
... it would reduce its total overall total return targets due to lower long term expected return forecasts for most asset classes including global listed property, global bonds and cash. It will also include of conservative alternatives - in conjunction ...

US manager appoints Breakwater to bring funds to Australia

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 21 JUL 2014
... services in Australia to include providing asset management services to institutional investors across an array of asset classes, including multiple fixed income segments of the market, as well as equity and multi-asset strategies and solutions, the ...

Alternatives managers must be more transparent

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
... Asia-Pacific at BNP Paribas Securities Services said institutional investors are increasing their allocation to alternative asset classes such as private equity, infrastructure, direct property and hedge funds. Alongside this, regulators are demanding ...

FUM closes in on $2trn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 JUN 2014
... investment managers. The cash weighting across the FUM market is equivalent to 12.3%. Meanwhile the five fastest growing asset classes over the year were active extension, private equity, international equities, listed property and combined equities. ...

Sovereign wealth funds ramp up alternatives exposure

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
Sovereign wealth funds are increasingly investing new allocations to alternative asset classes, figures from the second annual Invesco Global Sovereign Asset Management Study show. The study was conducted amongst more than 50 individual sovereign investors ...

Getting ideas across to SMSFs the first battle: AMP

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... them in a forum the way that you can through your other networks." While SMSFs invest heavily in equities, other asset classes such as fixed income and alternatives lose out to cash - an asset class which is easy to understand and provides absolute liquidity ...

Beware high correlations: AQR

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... co-founder and head of client strategies David Kabiller. The former Goldman Sachs executive said that traditional asset classes including fixed income, equities and property, although viewed by the industry as distinct from one another, were actually ...

150,000 candidates cramming for CFA exams

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... Standards, Quantitative Methods, Economics, Financial Reporting and Analysis, Corporate Finance, Investment Tools, Asset Classes, and Portfolio Management and Wealth Planning.

Dynamic approach key to low volatility investing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... warned. Low volatility equity investing has risen in popularity in the wake of the GFC. With lower returns across asset classes, institutional investors are making use of lower volatility equity portfolios to mitigate against the added risk they have ...

Noble departs ASFA, joins Inflection Point Capital

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 3 JUN 2014
... management advisory boutique offering exclusively sustainability-enhanced investment products across a broad range of asset classes." Noble said the firm specialises in "an enhanced approach to ESG", adding 'innovation' and 'agility' to the traditional ...