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REST to allocate more active Aussie eq mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Active Aussie equities managers will continue to win mandates with the $14 billion REST Super as the fund said it was sticking with its active manager core, despite several other big industry funds allocating bigger mandates to passive managers. Damian ...

We're feeling better, said Aussie investors

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
Returns have improved, the economy is perking up and investors are happier - new figures from ING show that local investor sentiment is up 82 per cent from the previous quarter. According to the latest ING Investor Dashboard Survey, investor sentiment ...

Aussies lag behind in PRI implementation

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
Many Australian and New Zealand signatories to the United Nations Principles for Responsible Investment (UN PRI) are lagging behind their overseas counterparts on implementing the principles, according to a progress report. The UN PRI Report on Progress ...

More mortgage brokers to sell insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2009
First Aussie John announced he would "shake up" the insurance market, now Mortgage Choice is boosting its presence in life insurance too. Independently-owned mortgage house Mortgage Choice announced the partnership with Lifebroker, which claims to be ...

Pengana Asian Equities up 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... per cent and hedged against the swift (and record) fall of the Australian dollar well before Asian equity stocks (and the Aussie dollar at one point) practically went on freefall. "We generated positive returns by managing the volatility well, particularly ...

BGI and BlackRock mandates under review

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
Westscheme is intensely scrutinising the fates of the mandates within its $630 million Aussie equities portfolio, which is currently divided between Barclays Global Investors ($380 million) and BlackRock ($250 million), after the two firms announced ...

RBS restructures Aussie equities team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
The Royal Bank of Scotland has appointed a new head of equity capital markets (Australia) and named three new members to its Australian equities team. RBS has appointed David Goffage as head of equity capital markets Australia, replacing Patrick Broughton ...

Aussie John cracks insurance market

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2009
John Symond, the Aussie Home Loans founder who transformed the home loans market in the 1990s, has set his sights on shaking up another sector and this time, it's direct insurance. Symond, renowned for his Aussie brand of mortgage services, said he ...

Aussies cling to shares: ASX

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
Australians are still strong believers in equities investments with 41 per cent of the country's' adult population owning direct or indirect shares, according to latest data from the ASX. The Australian Share Ownership Study by the Australian Securities ...

Active manager mandates to increase: Mercer

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... the recent turnaround. "We've always had the view that you have to be actively managed in those asset classes [such as Aussie equities], there is quite compelling evidence of alpha and outperformance and additional returns from active management," said ...