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Open letter to trusted trustees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... banks at 200 basis points(sub-underwritten for much less) and backed up by SPPs." In many, if not all, of these raisings, instos could have negotiated a better offer. Part of the problem, said Paatsch, is that, perversely, institutional investors have ...

Instos still lukewarm on climate change risk

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
Eight super funds, including AustralianSuper, are spearheading the move to better assess climate change risks on long-term returns, but the industry, as a whole, is still moving at a glacial pace on all thing carbon, a survey shows. The joint survey ...

Analyse this

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 MAR 2010
... neutral fund holding between 100 to 150 long holdings and 50 to 100 short holdings. "A lot of 130/30 strategies that [local] instos invested in have disappointed. Our 130/30 product is about giving choice in the market with a fund that is an extension ...

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. ...