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Aussie equity investors urged to buy overseas

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013
UBS head of equities Nick Irish has urged Australian investors to look beyond their home bias and diversify their equity exposure with overseas shares. According to data from Rainmaker Information, average asset allocations for both not-for-profit (NFP) ...

State Super appoints head of equities

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 19 APR 2013
State Super has appointed Peter Laity as head of equities, a newly created role. Before joining State Super Laity was at ESSS for 11 years, most recently as head of investments. He is a 25-year veteran of the financial services industry with previous ...

Fund stalwarts draw $6bn in Aus equities mandates

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... superannuation funds, all have one thing in common: a star fund manager at their helm. The presence of Vinva head of equities Morry Waked helped the investment house win a whopping $3.9 billion in super fund mandates including $1.5 billion from First ...

PineBridge pitches quant solution to super funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
... global financial crisis in which a liquidity crunch led to dramatic underperformance. However, PineBridge global head of equities Robin Thorn said the old-style quant approaches suffered because they generally invested in the same universe of stocks. ...

Unloved equities to be re-rated along with risk appetite in 2013

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 14 DEC 2012
... take more risk when they are making gains from their initial financial starting point." Meanwhile, Fidelity's head of equities, Dominic Rossi, says that while there will be some event-driven risk shocks to the market, there's a strong case for re-rating ...

Beware defensive funds: Towers Watson

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 NOV 2012
... defensive equity funds is making these assets too expensive, says Towers Watson's Stephen Miles. The group's global head of equities says the substantial increase in the number of defensive equity products launched to the market over last five years ...

Mason Stevens appoints head of equities

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2012
Mason Stevens has appointed Jack Chemello as head of equities in a newly created role, it was announced today. Chemello joins from BT where he was portfolio manager of the flagship BT Imputation fund. He also managed BT's ethical funds and was responsible ...

Airlie selects RBC as custodian

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2012
... as a global custodian, it was announced today. The boutique investment house is headed by John Sevior, former head of equities at Perpetual, and former Treasury Group managing director David Cooper. Sevior built a reputation as a star stock picker during ...

Frontier Advisors makes four new hires

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2012
... consultant to head up its equities research team. Murray joins from Ibbotson Associates, where he held the role as head of equities and property. He commences his new position next week. Nathan Bode joined yesterday as an associate consultant. Prior ...

No mandates lost over hybrid model: AustSuper

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 11 SEP 2012
... its Australian equities portfolio through a hybrid internal/external system. Innes McKeand, AustralianSuper's head of equities said that Australian equities were a logical place to start the internalisation, but that no mandates would be lost as a direct ...