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Multimillionaires still love property above everything else

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... lowered over the last year from 33.1% in 2014. The rest of their allocation is in equities (26.5%), cash (21.6%), fixed income (9.5%) and alternatives (11.65%). Of HNW's alternative investments, 23.6% is in private equity. The report surveyed wealthy ...

State Street appoints APAC markets head

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... research for the Asia-Pacific region. Colin Zhong joined State Street from UBS, where he specialised in "currency and fixed income rates products in locations including Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan and New York," according to State Street's statement. ...

Retirees should expand asset classes

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 17 SEP 2015
... retirees should consider balancing their asset allocation between three building blocks - equity income, real assets and fixed income - to ensure adequate capital preservation, income generation and inflation protection. He said fixed income provides ...

NZ Super posts 14% returns for FY2014

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2015
... re-committed to keep the fund's portfolio heavily tilted towards growth assets (80%), with the remaining 20% allocated to fixed income. "Given the fund's long time horizon - it will keep growing until 2080 - this strong weighting to growth assets is ...

VicSuper awards $100m corporate bonds mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
VicSuper has awarded a $100 million investment mandate to a fixed income manager to invest in diversified Australian corporate loans. Metrics Credit Partners will manage the mandate, which falls under VicSuper's domestic fixed interest strategy. The ...

Vanguard to launch international fixed income ETFs

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 11 SEP 2015
Vanguard will launch four new exchange-traded funds (ETFs), two of which target international fixed income and credit indices. The Vanguard International Fixed Interest Index ETF and Vanguard International Credit Securities Index ETF, both hedged to ...

UBS hires Zenith, BlackRock senior execs

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2015
UBS Global Asset Management has expanded its team in Australia with the appointment of a fixed income investment specialist from Zenith and a national sales manager from BlackRock. Jonathan Baird will join UBS's Sydney fixed income team as investment ...

FIIG offers Apple bonds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 SEP 2015
Fixed income specialist FIIG Securities has added Apple bonds to its DirectBonds Service, giving private investors, SMSFs and clients of financial planners their first chance to access the bonds. Like the 300-plus other bonds on the DirectBonds list ...

Macquarie exec leaves to join boutique fund manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... establish in 2009. NWQ is a boutique investment firm that manages the Fiduciary Fund, a multi asset fund with exposure to fixed income, equities and property. The firm was founded by managing partner Jonathan Horton, who has over 25 years' experience ...

PROFILE: J.P. Morgan head of Australia funds David Hallifax

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... market before delivering to it. By doing this, he helped introduce JPMAM's Global Strategic Bond Fund, a multi-sector fixed income offering, and an Emerging Markets Opportunities Fund, as two examples. "I actually went out to clients and asked them what ...