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QIC and QSuper pour $28b in alpha-beta mandates

... alpha portfolio now internally managed by QIC. Holzberger also said that they have sold worth $4 billion of Australian equities and international equities in the past twelve months and redirected that money into inflation-linked bonds, infrastructure ...

QWL sets sights on Eastern Europe

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 AUG 2007
... which is expected to post good returns. It should appeal to investors seeking to diversify beyond domestic Australian equities and direct property assets, he said. "The fund is designed specifically for those investors who seek access to the growth prospects ...

VFMC gets centralised

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2007
... Australia, Vanguard pioneered the technique in 2004 with MLC. VFMC is introducing the system over part of its Australian equities portfolio to cut transaction costs and improve returns for multi-manager strategies. "Compared with a traditional multi-manager ...

CFS GAM appoints Australian Equities head

... Asset Management has appointed a senior executive from Morgan Stanley, Marcus Fanning, to head the group's Australian Equities (Growth). Fanning replaces Simon Shields, the former head of Australian Equities (GDP Plus), who left the group in June and ...

MasterSuper puts eggs in high conviction basket

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 AUG 2007
... has awarded $50 million to BT Financial and $46 million to Alleron Investment Management as high conviction Australian equities mandates. BT Financial has been awarded a $50 million mandate for its high conviction BT Wholesale Focus Australian Share ...

Sentiment to Aust shares stays high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2007
... Standard market expectations survey. The proportion of wealth management professionals surveyed who believe the Australian equities will hold strong moved up from 41 to 55 per cent in just the last month, the survey revealed. But the proportion believing ...

Treasury group seeds another boutique

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... recruit another portfolio manager, dealer and support staff. David Cooper, TTG managing director, said while Australian equities was already a crowded sector it was still the institutional backbone. "Australian equities remain the most significant asset ...

Advisers urged to exit UBS Aussie fund

... objectives," said Marcus Hanel, S&P fund analyst. Admittedly UBS promptly recruited Simon Shields, head of Australian Equities (GDP Plus) at Colonial First State Investments to replace Fiani. However, Hanel said the appointment still fails to outweigh ...

Tyndall, Suncorp restructure investment ops

... groups is $23.4 billion at end March, according to Rainmaker. Both teams at the moment run similar amounts of Australian equities, but Suncorp runs an extra billion or so in Australian bonds. But Suncorp is a much more diversified manager sourcing 30 ...

ING begins filling small caps vacancies

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2007
ING Investment Management (INGIM) has announced a new small cap portfolio manager for its Australian equities team, filling one of the vacancies left by the previous team's defection to Credit Suisse. Former Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) small companies ...