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Local appetite for hedge funds outstrips other markets

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAR 2013
... nervous about alternatives. Scoby believes that Australia is positioned to become one of the main markets for hedge fund managers over the coming years with many superannuation funds showing strong demand for what he called "high quality alternatives." ...

Time for Japan sceptics to think again

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... there are a number of reasons to believe that things will be different this time and has joined the growing ranks of fund managers to turn positive on the region. "The new leadership will share the newly elected government's dovish, pro-business stance ...

More fund automation after NAB Asset Servicing deal

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2013
Over 40 per cent of Australia's fund managers are available for electronic transactions over the Calastone network after National Australian Bank Asset Servicing (NAS) joined the network, Calastone announced yesterday. Calastone is a fund transaction ...

SMSFs drive ASX growth

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... they are also low cost funds. Its growth is a sign that people are becoming more aware of the fees they need to pay fund managers for other kinds of investment." Managed funds have also grown in the past year and listed investment companies (LICs) went ...

PineBridge pitches quant solution to super funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... essentially guaranteeing below-benchmark performance. The quant model works by grouping stocks not by sector, as fund managers traditionally distinguish types of company, but by other fundamental defining qualities such as the maturity of the business. ...

Latest Financial Standard issue available on the iPad app

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2013
... edition of Financial Standard, we publish our coverage of the annual SPAA SMSF conference, feature opinion pieces from fund managers Tyndall and Threadneedle, and the latest industry news, views and executive appointments. You can read them on your iPad ...

Peer-to-peer portfolio benchmarking gains appeal

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... for 20 years in the financial services industry and funded SelfWealth last November, said that in this context, fund managers portfolios will have to change in order to differentiate themselves. "Services such as SelfWealth are a bit of a threat to them," ...

ASX volatility index moves to live pricing

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... crisis and other macroeconomic risks has seen volatility treated as an asset class in its own right in recent years. Fund managers commonly hold volatility indices as a hedge against market risk and the move to live pricing enables the ASX to finally ...

Maple-Brown Abbott moves into global listed infra

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2013
... infrastructure assets that we believe will together best demonstrate these characteristics," Maple-Brown explained. Other fund managers who offer global listed infrastructure products in Australia include RARE, Lazard and Commonwealth Bank's Colonial ...

Water scarcity a factor for resource fund managers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 18 FEB 2013
... accompanying operational and political risks to their businesses in order to avoid water scarcity affecting their ratings. "Fund managers need to consider water scarcity as an issue that will drive return in the future," Lourey told Financial Standard. ...