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Top mandate winners woo super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... months. The investments are spread across Australian and international equities, fixed interest and alternative asset classes. Schroders came in second with nine, and BlackRock third at eight. Vanguard, Perennial Investment Partners and Wellington all ...

Fees for alternatives under pressure

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... increasingly cost conscious post GFC. But while alternatives are under pressure on the fee front, fees for traditional asset classes have varied, with fees for some long-only equity and fixed income strategies even increasing. "Although not universal ...

A brighter future for hedge funds in 2011

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... found. It has been a tough few years for the hedgies, with many funds claims of non-existent correlation to other asset classes blown apart by the GFC. Many institutions were scarred by the experience of being stuck in underperforming strategies after ...

VicSuper restructures asset allocation

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... cent of its funds into fixed interest. The move affected each investment option that had an allocation to these asset classes - including Capital Secure, Capital Stable, Balanced and Growth. Meanwhile, listed equities and private equity were reallocated ...

DSPC makes another discount AUI offer

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 29 NOV 2010
... financial adviser before making a decision. "Compared with other investments, mortgage funds are one of the very few asset classes to achieve this outcome for investors during the global financial crisis, and DSPC's offer of, in some instances, 29 cents ...

Former Soros partner targets retail market

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... with the age-old investment adage that 'the trend is your friend', rotating its asset allocation between high risk asset classes (such as developing market equities and small cap stocks) and low risk asset classes (such as bonds) as global risk appetite ...

When Irish eyes are frowning

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... while Euro-zone sovereign debt spreads are back near their widest levels of the year recorded in May, other risk asset classes are priced near their best levels of the year. Susan Buckley, head of global fixed interest at QIC said that the fundamentals ...

Trustees call to scrap MySuper

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... option that virtually ignores the prospect of any of the illiquidity premium that you can get from a variety of asset classes." Galbally took a back to basics approach behind his argument to oppose MySuper - stating that simplifying superannuation should ...

Super fund returns fall to just 3.7 pct

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... higher they are still mediocre if we consider the high exposure super funds have to shares and other higher risk asset classes," noted Rainmaker. Another effect of slow share markets is that not-for-profit funds, which have lower exposure to the share ...

Maritime restructures asset classes, doubles insurance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... The trustee board of Maritime Super approved the consolidation of the fund's direct property and listed property asset classes under the 'property' banner. The restructure, which took place at the end of August, means the asset mix and investment strategies ...