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NZ Super to look for green mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
Australian fund managers looking for mandates from the $16.4 billion NZ Super Fund may soon have to display how they input environmental, social and governance factors in their strategies as the fund pushes ESG considerations higher on its priority ...

Challenge your consultants on ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... institutional investors as advocates of SRI. Consultancy Mercer has a growing 'responsible investments' division where fund managers have a separate rating based on their ESG approach while fund manager Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS ...

Select mandates AQR and Och Ziff Capital

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
... and compliance, among others. Meanwhile, Select is also in the final stages of completing due diligence on several fund managers with the aim of providing low correlation to equity and bond markets. Select's multi-manager portfolios have provided investors ...

Planners must follow insto go signal

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... super funds, has tilted portfolios towards riskier assets to benefit from the stock picking skill of the underlying fund managers. Patrick Farrell, head of investment solutions at Advance, said in June that the firm bought riskier assets during the downturn ...

LICs versus ETFs

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... several issues with who is on the board with there being cases where directors may have common interests with external fund managers. "Investors should always be vigilant and pick LICs with independent boards and have strong investment credentials," ...

AIST research exposes flaws in asset-based fee model

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
There are significant weaknesses in the concept of asset-based fees as a means of remuneration for fund managers, according to new research by the Australian Institute of Superannuation Trustees (AIST) in conjunction with actuary RiceWarner. The asset ...

Investors eye $650bn 'niche' asset class

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... use of leverage and how it works in shipping knowledge." Mercer's paper 'Investment Case: Shipping' indicates that fund managers may take advantage of lower vessel values while institutional investors may now commit assets to specialist funds investing ...

Century replaces 452 Capital with Perennial

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 7 SEP 2010
... for the firm's Australian equities portfolio. According to a press statement, CYA received proposals from various fund managers for 452 Capital's replacement, after the announcement of 452 chief executive Lyndsey Hancock and joint investment director ...

Legalsuper continues mandate restructure

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
... several investment options following another round of mandate changes. The fund has terminated mandates with three fund managers totaling $62 million. This included a $38 million fixed interest mandate with Blackrock, a $20 million global equities mandate ...

Fixed income prone to emotion-led choices

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
... investors need to adopt long-term strategies in order to remain level-headed and clear of emotional sway. Planners and fund managers also have to be wary and develop policies to protect them against doing a similar thing and make emotion-driven decisions. ...