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Investors revamp intl property strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 19 FEB 2010

Sec lending to split from custody

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 FEB 2010
... development, Asia Pacific at eSecLending, said increased calls for transparency and specialised expertise are prompting instos to unbundle their custodial services from other components of the securities lending chain. "Historically, everything was bundled ...

Instos gain carbon footprint data

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
Super funds can compare the carbon footprint of fund managers along with traditional risk factors after one custodian added emission statistics to its service suite. Northern Trust said the enhancement would feature on Northern Trust's Investment Risk ...

Instos move on Treasury stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
Perpetual and Telstra Super have each bought more than one million ordinary shares in Treasury Group, which means both groups hold a five per cent voting share in the boutique incubator. Both groups bought more than 1.1 million of ordinary shares in ...

BTIM wins $450m into 130/30 fund

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... short sell ban ended on May 25. There were no assets in the fund prior to the ban, but demand has since been high from instos re-entering the hedge fund market. The fact that the fund practiced a fundamental long-short - instead of a quantitative - strategy ...

AXA IM opens Framlington to instos

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 23 NOV 2009
AXA Investment Managers has launched its global equities thematic division, AXA Framlington, to local institutional investors. Craig Hurt, director Australia & New Zealand for AXA Investment Managers, said AXA Framlington's unconstrained higher alpha ...

Solaris performance fee option wins $1bn from instos

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 NOV 2009
Solaris Investment Management clocked $1 billion from institutional investors within seven months under its unusual low fixed fee plus performance-fee based payment structure - proof that Frontier's proposed flat dollar fee model has massive insto appeal. ...

Global instos push for climate change action

PRESS STATEMENT  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 OCT 2009
Investment institutions including AMP, Colonial First State Global Asset Management, Cbus and 178 others representing $14 trillion have signed a statement urging world leaders to agree on climate change. The statement, issued last month, outlines the ...

Asian instos question external managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
Asian institutions remain confident in their overall investment strategies - but many appear to have lost faith in their relatively small lists of external asset managers, according to new research by Greenwich Associates. In terms of raw size, Asia's ...

Legalsuper seeks hedge funds

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... from July, some Australian institutional investors such as legalsuper are now looking to reappoint hedge fund mandates, as instos rebalance their portfolios' asset allocations. "Credit is an area we're continuing to look at closely - the spreads have ...