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State Street rebrands ETFs

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAY 2007
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has re-branded its listed streetTRACKS series of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) under the new global State Street ETF brand SPDRs. The re-branding is part of a global State Street roll-out that comes on the back of ...

Asset Super's strategic investment shift

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
... trusts and international bonds. The winners in the move are AQR Capital, Barclays, First Quadrant, Mellon, Macquarie, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) and Vanguard who will manage the $124 million shift. "These moves are in line with the fund's desire ...

Land of the giants: World's top 500 fund managers

... Allianz enjoyed the biggest growth in assets under management, thanks mainly to its merger with Dresdner, followed by State Street. In Australia, the four largest players were still the same as last year although they have all slid down the global ranks. ...

It's Perennial all over again: Macoun

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
... new business will start with a new quantitative boutique fund manager, Plato Investment Management, run by former State Street Global Advisors head of Australian equities and head of active equities Asia Pacific, Don Hamson. Under the deal Macoun together ...

SSgA launches neutral Asian alpha fund

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has launched its new SSgA Asia Pacific Equity Market Neutral Fund, aimed at giving institutional investors easy access to pure alpha returns from Asian equity markets. The strategy, designed by SSgA's quantitative ...

Jana offers long-short trusts to retail space

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 MAY 2006
... investments only and will steer clear of the more illiquid assets such as infrastructure and private equity. Jana will use State Street Global Advisors, Perpetual Investments and Acadian Assets Management to manage the Australian share trust and has ...

Super funds pile on global equities

... around 50 US cents. Vision Chairman Michael Tilley says that while the core of their portfolio remains invested with State Street Global Advisors, which use an enhanced passive mandate, the fund has reduced its weighting on Australian equities, fixed ...

Active managers not outperforming: State Street

New research from State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) reveals that active managers are not outperforming and they warn investors to be cautious about their ability to outperform. The four year research project, called the SSgA Manager Persistence Survey ...

Policy reflation likely for the US

... late 1970s thus leading to a greater stance of policy reflation in the US. Harvinder Kalirai, senior strategist at State Street Global Markets has said that the Fed's strategy of "opportunistic disinflation" is being replaced with a policy of "opportunistic ...

AGEST announces new international equity strategy

... Half of AGEST's $A160 million international equities portfolio will now be managed to an enhanced passive style by State Street Global Advisers. The other $A80 million has been awarded to Wellington Management, and will be actively managed. AGEST's international ...