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Dimensional turns to value stocks in emerging markets

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 OCT 2009
Dimensional is changing its Emerging Markets Trust strategy from focusing on large cap stocks to both large and small cap companies. The transition, which occurred this week, comes after rising interest in the region from investors. Glenn Crane, chief ...

Dimensional wins Russell mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
Russell Investments has selected Dimensional Fund Advisors to manage a 10 per cent mandate within the Russell Australian Shares Fund. Recently released research from Russell Investments reconfirmed that a mild bias to value shares in a core Australian ...

Club Plus overhauls Aussie eq

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... boutiques Ausbil Dexia and Platypus Asset Management as new managers within the line-up. The fund had also retained Dimensional Fund Advisors and Perennial Investment Partners, which respectively manage $40 million and $50 million in mandates, according ...

Governance indices create illusions: study

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... or even series of ratios. According to the paper, the weakness in governance indices is their reliance on the uni-dimensional factors such as the proportion of board directors who are independent, how concentrated is the management structure, and type ...

MLC revamps global share strategy

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... Global Share fund strategy is divided into three styles; value, market and growth. The value component is made up of Dimensional, Mondrian Investment Partners and Tweedy, Browne Company. Capital International and Wellington Management manage the 'market' ...

Dimensional wins $100m Aust Eq mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUL 2008
Global insto asset manager Dimensional has secured a $100 million Australian core equities mandate with Zurich Investment Management. Dimensional's Australian Core Equity strategy is designed to capture the returns from the broad Australian equities ...

Clay Finlay re-invents growth

... group. Prior to joining Clay Finlay, she was principal at US asset consultant Wilshire Associates, vice president at Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) and pensions and investments manager at PepsiCo. "For 21 years, I've looked at money managers as part ...

Intech shifts focus to after-tax

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
... decisions of a number of the trust's active managers in lag through a centralised dealing desk. Intech has also appointed Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) to a value-oriented tax-based mandate. "Our work on after-tax investing has highlighted significant ...

Good times keep rolling for ASX funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... "Lazard's Select Australian Equity fund, which adopts a value-style, took second place with a 34.09 percent. [But] Dimensional Australian Value Trust, a quantitative based strategy with over 200 stocks in the portfolio and a mid-cap bias, also performed ...

Watson Wyatt loses senior consultant to Hyperion

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
... roots, given his jobs prior to Watson Wyatt at Westpac, Credit Suisse and in the UK at Lazard Brothers, Fidelity and Dimensional Asset Management. The pair are already familiar, as Spence previously conducted research into the company as part of his ...