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Asset diversification gathers momentum

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 14 FEB 2013
... research at Towers expects larger institutional funds to continue investing in funds directly for most alternative asset classes, rather than via funds of funds as investors continue to focus on better fee structures and greater transparency. In 2012 ...

SMSF trustees confident backing their limited advice

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 FEB 2013
... diversification means these same people could be failing to identify better opportunities with a broader range of asset classes, such as international equities. Schoenheimer also said that the challenge for advisers was to help their clients develop ...

Global listed property outperforms global equities by 8.6%

MARK STORY  |  TUESDAY, 12 FEB 2013
... investor appetite for yield and safe-haven sectors, global listed property had significantly outperformed most major asset classes during 2012, a research paper reveals today. While fund performance has been impressive in an absolute sense, the Lonsec ...

Alternative funds delivering: van Eyk

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... covering the absolute return, commodities and global macro sectors. Investors are realising that the alternative asset classes can provide uncorrelated returns. Between 2005 and 2011, globally pension funds have increased their allocation to alternatives ...

SFG appoints CIO for Mosaic

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
... portfolio construction and management business and is the Responsible Entity of a range of funds across different asset classes. "Through the merger of Snowball Group and Shadforth Financial Group in 2011, Mosaic has achieved greater scale and with that ...

Insurers to exit risky fixed income positions: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... ever before," he explained. Lomas predicts that against this backdrop, insurers will take up positions in illiquid asset classes such as infrastructure project finance. BlackRock's new European Infrastructure Debt Investment team was set up, in part ...

RBF shakes up fund with two new mandates

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
... Tribeca and Invesco. RBF chief executive Philip Mussared said RBF is reviewing its investment managers across all asset classes in a bid for improved efficiency. "Our aim is to secure for RBF members some of the scale economies that managers have been ...

Risk control software targets HFTs

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2013
... clients to quickly and seamlessly apply a hierarchy of safeguards and oversight to all their electronic trading across asset classes," said InfoReach CEO Allen Zaydlin. "We're empowering them to identify risk as well as arrest or control it on a real-time ...

VicSuper starts daily unit pricing

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... "core-and-satellite" investment restructure, which led to a new mixture of passive and active mandates across several asset classes being awarded.

A-REITs come out on top in 2012

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... portfolio which adapts to a changing environment, is the best way to more consistently achieve investors' goals." Most asset classes managed at least strong single digit returns last year with some delivering even higher. Australian equities and global ...