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MLC adds three managers to new strategy

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
... the low correlation strategy will use alternative strategies. They will make investments outside the traditional asset classes of shares, bonds and property and manage them by using an absolute return approach. Gosling added that because investing in ...

Standard Risk Measure misleading

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... equities funds have been given similar risk measures to bond funds, despite the vastly different risk profile of these asset classes, simply because different funds are using different methodologies to calculate the SRM," Ramsay said. As an example ...

Zenith expands analyst team

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 18 OCT 2012
... In his new role Huw is responsible for assisting the senior analysts in the review and rating of funds across all asset classes. David Wright co-founder and director at Zenith said the increase in staff reflects the firm's new business successes this ...

Aussie shares to rally within a year: Russell

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... majority seeing the market as undervalued." The survey saw a significant decline in the attractiveness of defensive asset classes, with the combination of declining interest rates turning managers off cash. AREITS also experienced a dramatic decline ...

Fund managers bullish on Asian bonds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... predominately investing in Asian and Emerging Markets sovereign - so the risk and volatility profiles of those two asset classes are quite different." The present risk on/risk off environment has led to more money flowing to hard currency bonds, which ...

Vanguard to publish portfolio holdings

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 27 SEP 2012
... where regulations dictate it," Bowerman. "We have always advocated broad diversification both across and within asset classes and believe this measure may deepen the understanding of the spectrum of diversification inherent in our funds. It allows investors ...

QE3 will be different

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... asset pricing was at much lower levels. "The criticism of QE1 and QE2 was that you saw it was factored into risk asset classes and commodities classes, but actually when you inflate commodity classes you inflate the oil price which inflates the gas price ...

BlackRock to focus on model-based fixed income inv

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2012
... stick with the familiar. "Narrowness can cause fixed income professionals to ignore the views of investors in other asset classes especially equity markets which may signal manifestations of market sentiment. Brodsky said model-based fixed income investing ...

No mandates lost over hybrid model: AustSuper

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... Ausbill, at $930 million, according to research from Rainmaker. While a more direct route will be taken for all asset classes, McKeand said it was too early to speculate on the time period before unlisted asset classes could be managed internally. AustralianSuper's ...

IFM appoints global head of marketing

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2012
... investors across all markets." IFM manages more than US$35 billion on behalf of institutional investors across four asset classes -- debt, infrastructure, private equity and listed equities. It is owned by 32 major not-for-profit Australian pension f ...