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New tool for institutionals

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAY 2011
... details from portfolio to security level and across a wide range of analysis including performance, attribution, asset allocation and value-at-risk, the firm said. Fay Coroneos, global head of risk and investment analytics for RBC Dexia said the tool ...

van Eyk drops AXA Bernstein for Sigma

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... appointment represents Sigma's first major wholesale mandate since forming in August 2009. As it stands now, Fidelity's asset allocation has been cut down from 27.5 per cent to 23 per cent, Integrity sits at 11 per cent, down from 23.5 per cent, Solaris ...

Advisers not ready for super changes

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAY 2011
Financial planners are unprepared for a superannuation system that is rapidly changing with the biggest problems not of their making, Jeremy Cooper said today. Cooper, the former head of the Superannuation System Review, told a packed ballroom of industry ...

China's HNWs hold $1.2tr

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... private banks prefer local institutions. The study also found a big shift is happening regarding Chinese HNW asset allocation with alternative investment and equities weightings both increasing 5 per cent. Managed funds usage meanwhile increased 4 per ...

MLC appoints Schroders global equities manager

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
... raft of changes to its portfolio management team across the major asset classes, with Dr Susan Gosling managing asset allocation.

May

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... for retaliatory attacks after Obama confirmed Osama's demise. But back to May and going away. Reuters' monthly asset allocation poll - a "survey of leading investors in US, Britain, Japan and Continental Europe" - showed investors not waiting for May ...

SMSF trustees hit pension payment woe

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... through unnecessary fees and brokerage in liquidating assets as well as through lost opportunity." Hutton said the asset allocation mix did not need to change dramatically in the retirement/pension phase but may need to move towards more high-yielding ...

Market volatility making boomers nervous

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... and financial security. Additionally, advisers expressed interest in finding other options bedsides traditional asset allocation models to deal with market volatility with 51 per cent of adviser respondents agreeing that alternative investments manage ...

Vanguard varies approach to Australian equities

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
... development for investors," said Joseph Brennan, chief investment officer, Vanguard. "Minimising costs and sensible asset allocation remain the most important success factors in investing." Vanguard has over $300 million in ETF assets under management ...

Russell makes senior hires

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... within the consulting business and an increased demand for more sophisticated portfolio solutions. "Our Enhanced Asset Allocation service continues to gain traction as clients seek practical responses to the impacts of trends such as rising oil prices ...