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Future Fund on the defense

... remains to be seen although the fund's chief investment officer David Neal might shed some light at next week's Asset Allocation Summit in Sydney where he is a key presenter. But with the fund's private markets team on board, alternative investments ...

New era for investment analysts

... School of Finance & Economics, UTS, and industry experts. The program will cover topics such as investment policy, asset allocation, legal and regulatory environment, due diligence and manager selection and ethics. There is also the AMP-sponsored CIMA ...

Macq launches Property Lever

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
... significant appetite for a product of this kind. What's happening in equity markets is making people look at balanced asset allocation, which is favourable for us," he said. The Macquarie Property Lever requires a minimum loan amount of $165,000 and ...

UBS and Genworth tap income-for-life market

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2008
... receive a rise in the value of their portfolio in times of strong performing markets. "Employing our 25-year asset allocation approach, our target retirement funds already address three major risks - market, shortfall and inflation - faced by investors ...

Australian super funds sticking with equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 8 FEB 2008
... allocations in the past year with almost 60 per cent still allocated to equities and 16 per cent in bonds. Alternative asset allocation across all pension funds increased with real estate, private equity, commodities and hedge funds rising close to four ...

ING IM and Credit Agricole win $1.1b Philippine mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... GSIS to invest abroad at this magnitude. We still do not have the necessary technical expertise to provide good asset allocation consisting of global instruments," Garcia said. "Foreign fund managers on the other hand, have their 'ears on the ground' ...

Credit Suisse pairs up with Julius Baer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
... extend the opportunities in international equities. Two weeks ago, research house van Eyk revised its strategic asset allocation steering away from international and domestic equities. Brett Gallagher, deputy chief investment officer and senior portfolio ...

Western Asset repositions for 2008

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... we're extremely diversified," Zelouf said. At the end of last year the Global Multi-Sector Fund had a 31 per cent asset allocation to high yield followed by 20 per cent allocation to emerging markets and 19 per cent to Investment Grade Corporates. Zelouf ...

Van Eyk back on the driver's seat

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JAN 2008
... they may hire research analysts with expertise in that area. On a separate note, van Eyk revised its strategic asset allocation steering away from domestic and international equities, listed property trusts and fixed interest in favour of property and ...

VFMC boosts inhouse investments by 25pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
... Government entities. In 2005, these entities gave the fund the bigger responsibility to manage their strategic asset allocation and investment strategy as opposed to simply overseeing the appointed fund managers.