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Tracking hedge fund fees

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 20 FEB 2009
Investors may be asking questions about the amount of performance fees received by hedge fund managers but the real focus should be on the benchmarks and how often these fees are being paid, according to an industry expert. Kim Ivey, chairman of the ...

DC plans to axe managers

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
Two in five defined contribution plan sponsors in the US are expected to replace their underperforming fund managers in 2009, new research shows. According to Lori Lucas, defined contribution leader at US-based Callan Associates, the credit crisis has ...

More donations to help Bushfire Appeal

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 13 FEB 2009
... term deposits without incurring a penalty charge and defer credit card and loan repayments for a certain period. Fund managers AMP and AXA have also donated at least $1 million and $100,000 respectively, as reported in an earlier Financial Standard article. ...

Asia FMs to wield more power

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 12 FEB 2009
While US and European fund managers are reeling from the wave of investor redemptions during the credit crisis last year, their Asian counterparts enjoyed net inflows to the tune of US$140 billion. According to a report from US-based researcher Strategic ...

Boutiques wary of automated systems

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... of processing and information exchange - should have been implemented more than a decade ago. However, boutique fund managers have shown a surprising lack of commitment to convert Australia's manual processing landscape to an automated one. "The high ...

Real estate under threat

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
Real estate could soon be a threatened asset class if property fund managers are not transparent about the sales and devaluation of their funds, says a US property investment expert. The slow trickling of cash flows into the global REITs sector has ...

AFM hires RI expert

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 FEB 2009
... investment industry and what investment opportunities could be developed. Noble is travelling around Europe meeting with fund managers and the firm is already in discussion with a number of responsible investment focussed fund managers keen to enter ...

No mandate terminations: Hostplus

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 FEB 2009
... despite the current market meltdown. This contrasts decisions made by other super funds that have since switched fund managers or terminated mandates that lost money in the wake of the GFC. "We really need to remember that the primary focus of Australian ...

VicSuper and HESTA champion ESG

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 FEB 2009
... Enhanced Analytics Initiative. Like its global counterpart, ESG RA will solicit the involvement of super funds, fund managers, and particularly brokers to prioritise ESG issues in their research and investment decisions. "We want to encourage broker ...

Future Fund posts 6pc loss

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 2 FEB 2009
... and will try to avoid investing a disproportionate amount of attention on one asset class over another, or finding fund managers that will shoot the lights out. "We want to remind ourselves that our job is not to beat the strategic asset allocation that's ...