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High frequency trading benefits: UK government

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 OCT 2012
... that computer automated investment has market benefits. According to a recent survey of retail investors, brokers fund managers and analysts, 96.6% of Australian investors believe that HFT has a negative impact on the market. Meantime, 90.3% believe ...

Online tool offers comparative performance data

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
... by the way their financial service needs are administered. "Australia's investment model has financial planners, fund managers and administration platforms each demanding a share of fees from the investor," he explained. "Paying fees and commissions ...

Luddite firms off-radar: Schroders

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
The internet is forcing a transformation in the way fund managers and investors analyse company growth prospects, according to Schroders' Marcus Burns. With the focus on the latest developments in the online world - notably in the social media space ...

Investors must push for PE transparency

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
Investors must mount pressure on fund managers if they want to see an improvement in private equity transparency, according to Hamilton Lane's managing director Tara Blackburn. While the sector has made significant strides to overhaul its reputation ...

Aussie shares to rally within a year: Russell

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... Investment Manager Outlook (IMO) survey, which was released this morning, collected the opinions of roughly 40 Australian fund managers, 77% of which expect a turnaround in the local market to occur by the end of 2013, and 63% see it happening by the ...

China trip provides first-hand insights

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... strategies. The upcoming leadership change will also provide some stability in the market, as this has kept many fund managers "on the sidelines." To provide Australian investors with a better understanding, Premium China Funds Management has organised ...

Upside from frontier markets untapped: Feriani

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... investment opportunities will remain untapped. He says by shunning the accepted split between emerging and frontier, fund managers can gain access to viable investments within countries that don't currently tick index providers' boxes. Feriani doesn't ...

Fund managers bullish on Asian bonds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
Despite fund managers remaining neutral on both equities and bonds for Q4, 75% are overweight on hard currency Asian bonds, according to HSBC's latest global manager survey. High yield bonds (90% overweight) and global emerging market bonds (70% overweight) ...

Fidelity's Taylor kicks-off scholarship

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
A new scholarship has been established to encourage the next generation of fund managers. The London Business School and Paul Taylor, head of Australian equities at Fidelity Worldwide Investment, have established the Taylor Family Scholarship, which ...

Investment teams need more skin in game

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... look much more at an absolute return focus," Drennan said. Liptak said that the skin in the game such that hedge fund managers typically carry would help this absolute return focus. "If I was putting my money into a balanced fund or an institutional ...