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CFS Global Asset Management creates new emerging market debt team

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... market economies will become developed and we think they will become an increasingly important part of investors' asset allocation," she told Financial Standard. Davison said concerns about inflation, low government bond yields and the deteriorating ...

Russell brings out toolkit against volatility

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... asset allocations to diverge from their strategic benchmarks. "We would encourage investors to rebalance their asset allocation as volatile markets take them away from their long term strategic asset allocation," said Andrew Pease, chief investment strategist ...

Black swans test strength of portfolio construction

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... portfolios was far more common than predicted by "normal" bell curve distribution. "That's one of the problems with asset allocation, the reason that it doesn't work all the time is that this is a violation of one of the assumptions - the assumption ...

HOSTPLUS, IOOF allocate mandates

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... equities. This is the group's third major mandate since being licensed, receiving a $100 million Global Tactical Asset Allocation mandate in April from Colonial First State. Lucas Rooney, senior vice-president of Neuberger Berman Australia, told Financial ...

UniSuper nominates Bloomberg as asset manager

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... partner, or more specifically, the Bloomberg Asset and Investment Manager (AIM) initiative. Since that time, the asset allocation to AIM has increased to $4-5 billion. Amanda Dobbie, Bloomberg's country manager, Australia and New Zealand told Financial ...

Intrafund advice a sticking point for Stronger Super group

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... asks simple questions about their super such as on co-contributions, salary sacrifice, insurance or the right asset allocation then these were part of basic service provision. He said when questions became more complex then members should be referred ...

Fund manager recommends less defensive retirement

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... quite a long time horizon when you hit retirement so its not like you need to hit this catastrophic shift in asset allocation when you reach 65," said Reid. "Yes, your willingness to take on risk changes so that's why we've built these lower risk portfolios ...

Planners remain wary of switching cash to equities

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... looking to take advantage of any short term dips to add exposure to growth assets at good prices," said Jon Reilly, Asset Allocation and Investment Committee. Jordan said that many SMSF clients that were looking to allocate more capital away from cash ...

Super funds talk debt ructions and increasing pensions

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 15 JUL 2011
... said. Pham said the second biggest risk would be the European sovereign debt crisis and possible contagion. "Our asset allocation hasn't changed, our funds management has not changed but the macro view is the concern," she said. AMIST had $1 billion ...

Planning group Genesys signs research deal with van Eyk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... research website iRate which connects them to ratings reports, portfolio construction tools, performance analytics, asset allocation reports and product information on more than 5000 products. The research firm, which specialises in strategic and tactical ...