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Northern Trust wins Dutch pension mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 26 MAR 2012
... decision. "Northern Trust has a comprehensive set of index management products and capabilities across the spectrum of asset classes and covering developed, emerging and frontier markets, and a long and successful track record in indexing going back ...

Schroders loses two analysts

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2012
... institutional and retail investors, financial institutions and high net worth clients globally, invested in a broad range of asset classes across equities, fixed income and alternatives.

JBWere partners with Swiss bank

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAR 2012
... more than $1 million to invest, the partnership allows JBWere clients to trade internationally across a range of asset classes including equities, cash, fixed income, managed funds, dual currency and other structured deposits. Access to FX hedging, custody ...

Super funds should refocus on fixed interest

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 19 MAR 2012
... fixed interest as returns seeking objective, bear in mind that fixed interest has been one of the best performing asset classes in the last ten years. Though still not widely practiced, fixed interest can be used in lieu of liability driven investment ...

Xenophon targets super funds for greater transparency

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
... opportunities," Senator Xenophon said. While some funds provide publicly available information on major holdings, asset classes, investment managers and location of funds invested offshore, there needs to be better standards and benchmarks on the level ...

Investment FUM nears $1.4 trillion

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... still being below the pre-GFC peak of $1.5 trillion it reached December 2007, they noted. The five fastest growing asset classes over the 12 months were private equity which increased 28%, Infrastructure (up 18%), hedge funds (up 17%), Australian fixed ...

BlackRock appoints head of strategy group

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2012
... to build out the Asian platform and product offering. "Many investors, realising that returns from conventional asset classes alone won't be enough to fund their retirement and other future liabilities, are searching for answers to the challenge of growing ...

Super funds call key challenges

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
The breadth and pace of regulatory change, ongoing cost pressures and lower real yields in traditional asset classes have been identified as the key challenges facing Australian superannuation. A discussion at recent Centre for Investor Education Fund ...

Legacy systems cause super funds to rethink op models

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 9 MAR 2012
... with more expected. There have also been many funds looking to internalise the investment management of certain asset classes, whilst retaining external managers for other assets," said Quin, who argues that operating models should support change by ...

CIOs see no let up in European debt crisis

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... Bernstein and Colonial First State, found sentiment fell in the last quarter despite an improved outlook for certain asset classes and regions. On a scale of -100 to 100, chief investment officers rated the investment outlook for 2012 as 16, down from ...