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Active manager mandates to increase: Mercer

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Mercer, one of the country's largest asset consultants, is advising its institutional clients to allocate more funds with active managers to capture the one-off abnormal returns coming out of stockmarkets as they switch into recovery mode. Simon Eagleton ...

BlackRock to buy Barclays Global Investors...

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... in 24 countries. BlackRock chairman and chief executive Laurence D. Fink notes the combination of active and passive investment products will boost their tailored portfolios for institutional and retail clients. "The thought leadership and intellectual ...

AustralianSuper saves $4m per year

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... AustralianSuper could reap $4 million in savings a year following the fund's increasing shift from active to passive investment mandates. Elana Rubin, chair of the industry fund and a speaker at yesterday's Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees ...

Sovereign wealth funds to buy more equities

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
... towards the end of this year," said another. However sovereign wealth funds said they will continue with their passive investment styles. The funds that were interviewed stated without exception that their preferred option for investing was through minority ...

ANZ Super cuts option costs by 40pc

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... manager Independent Asset Management P/L have been appointed satellite managers. Both core managers will adopt a passive investment style, with the aim of matching or exceeding marginally the investment performance of the Australian and international ...

QSuper offers low cost option

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2008
QSuper has designed a low cost balanced option, Basic Growth, which boasts a low management expense ratio by focusing on passive investments. Basic Growth maintains a low management expense ratio (MER) of 0.32 per cent for 2007/08 due to passive investments ...

Better beta through fundamental indexing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
Institutional investors can diversify their beta exposure and gain higher returns along the way through fundamental indexing, said Jason Hsu, a director at Research Affiliates, at the IMCA Conference last week. Hsu said that one of the ironies in investors ...

FF enters market but quietly

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUL 2007
... Future Fund holds as many equities by value as Vanguard. This would make the Future Fund the third largest passive investment manager in Australia if they operated in that market.

Asset Super takes cash and splits

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2007
... investment in the lower-fee Perpetual fund helped keep the balance, according to Paul. "The combination of a passive investment with Perpetual, and the active investment with ING means because of the balance now&we end up with exactly the same fee structure ...

Allco opens door to Malaysia

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2007
... its joint venture partner in Malaysia CIMB Group will first launch the CIMB Allco Structured Finance Fund, a passive investment vehicle with an expected capital commitment of A$350 million. The fund will focus on mezzanine and junior tranches of Malaysian ...