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Titanium challenges rating

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... active managers; indeed for many it is the market's putative lack of rationality that justifies pursuing an active investment style at all," continued S&P. The rating was subsequently withdrawn at the fund manager's request. In a statement obtained by ...

Member engagement still strong: Russell

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... contributions or consolidating their funds. "Categorising members into segments based purely on whether they make an active investment choice as Cooper has done overlooks a whole range of member behaviours," said de Mestre. "What we've found is engagement ...

Challenger wins $200m from AustralianSuper

AUSTRALIANSUPER RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 12 JUL 2010
AustralianSuper has signed a $200m deal to invest in an unlisted debt portfolio managed by Challenger Financial Services Group, which invests in a combination of property and private equity debt in Australia and New Zealand. Challenger will co-invest ...

AXA adds 20 funds to APL

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... and paraplanning at AXA Australia. Thomas said the additional funds do not reflect a tilt towards passive or active investment strategies but aim to provide financial planners with more choice.

Fed's unfunded liabilities balloon to $80bn

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAY 2009
... the Future Fund's recent announcement in its latest portfolio update that it is increasing its allocations to active investment management. A spokesperson for the Future Fund however said this move to more active management is inline with the fund's ...

Treasury Asia wins $61.9m Skandia mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
... Treasury Asia Asset Management. Treasury Asia Asset Management is a boutique investment manager specialising in active investment management in the Asia Pacific region using a bottom up investment strategy with a mid to large capitalisation bias. The ...

From Wall Street to the Great Wall

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 MAY 2008
... he said a model investment portfolio included a diversified core satellite approach comprising of indexed and active investment rebalanced annually.

Apostle launches global small-mid cap fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
... unaware, seek to outperform the S&P/Citigroup Developed World Ex-Aust US $2 to $10 billion index. The funds active investment strategy involves identifying undervalued and under researched small and mid cap equities to take advantage of inefficient pricing ...

Investing by 2020

... alpha and beta returns. "Institutional investment is based on the search for alpha or outperformance, however, active investment managers have long battled against the erosion of alpha as their ideas and processes are taken up by competitors. "Only those ...

AMP NZ shifts passive portfolio to 100% active

The largest fund manager in NZ, AMP Capital Investors, has moved its entire global equities portfolio from 80 per cent passively managed and 20 per cent actively managed to 100 per cent actively managed to take advantage of new rules that will come ...