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Rivkin firm launches managed funds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 13 JUN 2013
... arbitrage (i.e., takeovers) with price recovery from bombed-out blue chips, suited to everyone looking to benefit from our 16%-plus average annual track record, particularly those approaching or in retirement seeking yield," commented Rivkin chief executive ...

Sinking emerging markets

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 11 JUN 2013
... The MSCI emerging market index has significantly under performed developed equities this year to date -- minus 3.9% versus plus 12.1%. Fears of the Fed reducing liquidity in the system, rising bond yields, depreciating emerging market currencies (that ...

AustralianSuper granted MySuper license

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... 29, only an additional six were authorized in May. The complete list so far is: AustralianSuper, AvSuper, Care Super, Club Plus Qld, Club Plus, Colonial First State Investments (has 2 products authorised), Combined Fund, Commonwealth Superannuation Corporation ...

DST Bluedoor to take platforms to Europe

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... has put together a team to focus on the European side of the business. IFDS is an investor-servicing provider with 4,000-plus employees supporting more than 20 million investor accounts. DST Bluedoor provides technology solutions for wealth managers ...

Downswing in bond yields clear path for Absolute Return Fixed Income

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... to promote the GAM Fixed Income Absolute Return (AU) strategy to institutional investors, Djounov said funds with a 'cash-plus' target offered investors the consistent positive returns in an increasingly difficult market. "With fixed income assets generating ...

The day the music died

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
... before yesterday's sharp sell-off. Just try and get your head around that for a few minutes. Done? That's a miraculous 120%-plus annualised return! I don't think we can blame who invested in the Nikkei to bag their profits in the Nikkei, particularly ...

netwealth's advice group moves advice ops

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... to acquisitions. "The reason I'm looking for acquisitions is because I'm aware the average age in the advice space is 55 plus," Egan said. The wider netwealth group also has plans to launch a four-tier adviser support structure. "What we're doing is ...

No scale effect in US endowment returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... performance. The study yielded mixed results showing scale to be an affect for 2012 although, while returns for large $1 billion plus funds were almost three times the returns for small funds with less than $25 million, the differential was only 0.3% ...

SuperStream data standards superficial

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 21 MAY 2013
... SGP is successful they believe it will remove the need for gateways to enter into individual agreements with counterparties plus it will facilitate the entry into the market of new entrants and thus promote competition.

It doesn't compute

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 17 MAY 2013
... the last week of March. US housing starts plunged in April - the biggest fall since February 2011. After two months in the plus, the Philly Fed index fell back into the red this month. So did the Empire State index. It went negative in May - the first ...