Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 161 - 170 of 175 results for "Managed portfolios"

Western Asset brings in fixed income manager

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... help develop new corporate and structured credit products for Australian investors. Shinnick has previously managed portfolios at Lehman Brothers Asset Management Australia, and Challenger Financial Services, having begun his career with HSBC asset management. ...

BlackRock provides advisers with super SMA

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... enabling contributions to go into one and dividend income to be paid to another. The SMA includes professionally managed portfolios including BlackRock, iShares and SPDR exchange traded funds, Ausbil Dexia, BT, Fortis, Perennial and UBS. BNP Paribas ...

Dealer groups stay with Japan, eye opportunities

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... approved product lists (APLs) in light of the crisis in Japan and point out that diversified professionally managed portfolios are the best method to reduce the impact of risks such as this event. Meanwhile, Fiducian Financial Services, with $1 Billion ...

Aviva offers direct SMAs, model portfolios

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 NOV 2010
... into an adviser's plan generation and client review process. "We believe that providing integrated, actively managed portfolios at a reasonable cost will enable advisers to continue to be able to provide affordable full service financial advice to their ...

BlackRock to expand retail arm

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 11 NOV 2010
... interesting to those bigger financial groups." Phillips said they also see a void to fill in providing actively managed portfolios of ETFs. "Given that we are the only ones, besides Vanguard, to offer international ETFs then it would be a combination ...

UniSuper owns 5pc of Gunns

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... Simon Hudson, head of equities at UniSuper, said the 5 per cent stake is not held by UniSuper's internally managed portfolios, but through several of its external fund managers. According to an ASX statement, these fund managers include Herschel Capital ...

The hidden costs hurting returns

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
... areas highlighted by Moore are turnover costs and research costs built into bid offer spreads for actively managed portfolios.

AIST research exposes flaws in asset-based fee model

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 SEP 2010
... equities index mandates should be capped at around $300,000 per annum. The AIST report concedes that for actively managed portfolios, commercial realities may preclude the introduction of fixed dollar fees or similar structures. This is because consistently ...

AMP hires senior portfolio

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
... From 2001 Athukorala was senior investment manager within the investment management division at ipac where he managed portfolios with approximately $5 billion funds under management. Previously he worked at CSR Australian Superannuation Fund and with ...

Asian instos question external managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... externally. The reason for this change of heart is simple - in many cases, the absolute performance of internally managed portfolios was as good as or even better than that delivered by external managers through the crisis-filled months of the last year. ...