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Fund managers fail to make the grade

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
Research house van Eyk says Australian Equities fund managers need to lift their game, recommending only 18 of 65 managers in its latest sector review. Just 12 core and six concentrated strategies were able to earn van Eyk's "A" rating in the Australian ...

Instos move into ETFs as sector surges

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... super fund trustees, were looking at ETFs as a way of picking up market exposure with low fees. Institutionally, fund managers - including from superannuation funds - were also moving into the sector he said. "It's a really easy way for fund managers ...

Sunsuper appoints ESG specialist

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... ESG principles. Wilson will work with portfolio managers to review the ESG capabilities of current and perspective fund managers. Sunsuper, which has more than one million members, formally reviews all asset managers once a year. Sunsuper said that Wilson ...

Count morphs into super entity with new AFSL

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... advisers had opened up payments through to platforms and grandfathering provisions, favouring planning groups owned by fund managers and platform providers. "We will source platform infrastructure and admin services from key platform partners and look ...

Fund managers follow the herd

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Global equities fund managers are often choosing the same stocks for their top 10 holdings, research house Lonsec has found in its latest global equity fund sector review. The review rated 39 funds of which 26 were qualitatively managed by active stock ...

Selection the key as mining stocks surge

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
... biggest mining companies generated close to half of the total profits of the ASX's top 50 companies in 2010 but fund managers are highlighting the need to be extremely selective with investments. According to a study by accounting firm KPMG, miners BHP ...

Fund managers struggle to beat index

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
Active fund managers found it very difficult to beat benchmark performance indexes after fees in the first quarter, research house Morningstar has revealed. Managers investing in large-cap Australian shares were evenly split between those that beat ...

FTSE launches ESG investment product

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 21 APR 2011
Institutional investors and fund managers can use a new Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) ratings data service from global index provider FTSE Group to identify eligible companies for investment. The FTSE4Good ESG ratings product, launched this ...

Super funds turn to dark pools

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 APR 2011
... Sydney's upmarket Rockpool restaurant, Liquidnet Australia director Sam Macqueen said most clients were big, long-only fund managers. "Obviously we've got a lot of super funds and we're talking to a lot of the industry funds at the moment," he said. ...

BNY Mellon upgrades asset servicing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... News and Exception Workflow System (NEWS), the service centralises information that broker dealers get from the fund managers they deal with, cutting the time needed to access the information. NEWS also generates summaries of daily trading information ...