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Superannuation needs more regulatory resilience: ASIC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... placing teams that oversee mergers and acquisitions, capital raisings, brokers and markets themselves. Growth in fixed income, property and cash and managed investment schemes are activities regulated by ASIC. With SMSF growing in size they will be targeted ...

Strong half year results for new Challenger boss

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... under management grew by 15% to $29.6 billion as of 31 December. "We're especially pleased that our equities and fixed income boutique partnerships performed strongly despite difficult market conditions, having grown FUM by $1.4 billion in the half to ...

S&P calls for adviser education on new ETF indices

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
Adviser education on the indices underlying new fixed income exchange traded funds is needed to undo damage caused by misinformation on ETFs, according to S&P Indices. Recent changes to the Australian Securities Exchange Aqua listing rules to cover ...

Perpetual announces institutional appointments

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 FEB 2012
... took the reins at Perpetual, the group has announced three senior appointments to grow the business' institutional fixed income and multi-sector offer. Sandi Orleow, Jeremy Rolleston and Darren Beesley are the new appointments, recruited to build 'new ...

SMSFs focus on risk reduction: report

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
... often dictate the investment strategy - there is a need for advice and guidance from professionals around the role of fixed income in portfolios, and the impact of using high allocations to cash as a long term risk reduction strategy," said Patricia ...

Dimensional grows fixed income team

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 13 FEB 2012
... Australia, Canada and Europe, managing more than $US200 billion in assets worldwide. A quarter of these assets are in fixed income. Koch was with Suncorp for ten years and has experience in researching, building and implementing quantitative models and ...

Fixed asset allocation outdated: Schroders

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 9 FEB 2012
... allocations are free to move is the best model for the current environment, according to Schroders. Simon Doyle, head of fixed income and multi-asset said that while most of the industry is still operating on fixed asset allocation, the old 60% equities ...

Macquarie outlook mixed, annuities solid

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
... expectations with the combined FY12 net profit contribution expected to be up by approximately 20% on FY11. "The Fixed Income, Currencies and Commodities Group saw improved conditions in a number of markets to deliver a December quarter net profit contribution ...

Credit Suisse asset management appoints new recruit

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
... region, which is focused on bringing the best of Alternative Investments, Multi Asset Class Solutions (MACS) and Fixed Income/Equity, and Emerging Markets strategies to our clients," said Credit Suisse head of asset management, Asia Pacific, Neil Harvey. ...

Planners double allocation to term deposits

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... dividends, over a half of planners now say that their highest priority when choosing where to invest client cash and fixed income allocations is safety from capital loss." After three consecutive years of decrease, the level of excess cash held by clients ...