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EQT appoints Australian equities head

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
... 2012. He also pioneered the "Cash Flow Return on Investment Valuation" technique currently used by a number of major fund managers, including EQT. He will report to chief investment officer George Boubouras. "Paul is a highly respected and experienced ...

Tyndall AM creates fixed income role

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 JUN 2013
... strategy Tyndall AM managing director Mike Davis said. "The expanded team fits in with the overall strategy for Tyndall fund managers to work more closely with our parent, Nikko AM, to enable us to take Tyndall investment strategies to Asian markets ...

US hedge funds abandon Europe on new regulations

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
... regulation, the Financial Times has reported. Their retreat comes in response to the arrival of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers (AIFM) directive, which has been devised by European lawmakers to rein in the hedge fund, private equity fund and ...

Government to hold public forums on Super Charter

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
... stressed the need to consider regulatory burdens on other stakeholders, including, employers, superannuation funds, fund managers and financial advisers. Other key suggestions in the discussion paper were: a post-retirement adequate income of 70 per ...

Banks shift gears on technology spend

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
After years of technology investment focused on developing infrastructure, banks and fund managers are pinning their hopes on better customer-centric IT solutions to gain market share. "Technology is going to be paramount for this industry," Colonial ...

UK to consider Australia model for small pension fund mergers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... merge small local authority pension funds after Financial Times research revealed huge disparities in fees paid to fund managers. According to the UK broadsheet, some councils are paying three times as much as funds the same size elsewhere in the country ...

Pressure on benchmark affects managers performance: Cuffe

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
The pressure on fund managers to outperform benchmarks in the short term could be preventing them from achieving high returns, UniSuper chairman and founding director of Third Link Investment Managers Chris Cuffe said. "It is hard to get alpha and I ...

Property investments see surge in confidence

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
Sentiment for listed and unlisted property has improved over the last six months with the vast majority of fund managers and analysts now anticipated moderate to strong investment growth from the sectors over the next 12 months, according to the findings ...

Local funds ignore US $10.6tr pension market

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
Homegrown fund managers should cast their net to the wider $10.6 trillion pension market in the US, just one of the global opportunities they can use the broaden their client base. Brett Himbury, head of $40 billion Industry Funds Management (IFM) ...

Energy Super awards mandates to four managers

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 20 MAY 2013
Industry fund Energy Super has awarded $700 million worth of international equities mandates to four fund managers. Harding Loevner, Longview Partners, Sands Capital Management and Schroders have each won an unspecified share of the new allocation. ...