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J.P. Morgan extends protection to retirees

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
... have less margin to manage risk, then the invested position is scaled back with funds poured into cash and other asset classes that offer more protection to investors, he said. Stuff, who has been in talks with local fund managers and life companies ...

CAAM eyes credit and currency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... Philippe Jauer, chief investment officer, global fixed income and Forex in Asia at CAAM, said correlation between asset classes during 2008 is declining which provides an opportunity to find valuable fixed income assets. "From now on, diversified, 'value ...

Plum members avoid switching

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
... clients to hang on to their investments, said Humphrys. "If you measure the amount of money that's moved between asset classes, [out of] the whole Plum membership base, only 2 per cent of the assets have gone to cash," said Humphrys. The 2 per cent switch ...

Instos pump $700bn into Islamic finance

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... he said. "To date, the global financial crisis has had a limited effect on Islamic finance as investors seek out asset classes and markets they hope will provide stability." Ringrow said State Street believes the Islamic finance market will respond to ...

VicSuper seeds $150m low carb fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... GAM is taking the implementation of ESG principles mainstream as it hopes to get the UN PRI tick across all the asset classes it manages, totalling more than $128 billion in funds as at December 2008.

One in six DB funds in trouble: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2009
... of the individual funds and sub-funds to rectify the problem. "Given the pervasive impact of market falls across asset classes as well as contributing employers and the decline in the discount rates used to value liabilities, a classic solvency squeeze ...

Mercer and MLC top IC survey

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2009
... shares. "In the latest period measured there is a range of performances between the implemented consultants in various asset classes and the representative diversified fund over various time periods," the report said. "However overall, the implemented ...

VFMC suffers portfolio losses

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... Australian equities and international equities (which make up more than 45 per cent of the total portfolio), other asset classes have been hit hard too. VFMC's diversified fixed interest investments outperformed the index for the quarter, although for ...

Media Super pushes into equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 MAY 2009
... is currently reviewing all its investment managers, with a strategy to cut the number by a third across all major asset classes. "We've ended up with about 80 managers, which is far too many. We have to get rid of underperforming or managers that don't ...

Mercer adds boutique, adds staff

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
... real competition is increasingly from specialist research firms who put all their resource into research single asset classes," said Andrew Kirton, global head of investment consulting business at Mercer. "By creating our own specialist team we taking ...