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Islamic fund opens doors to Australian investors

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... plans to launch a compliant property fund and an international equities product by the end of the year followed by a fixed income fund in the first quarter of 2012. Beyond that, the plan is to launch an Islamic based superannuation fund with Crescent ...

PIMCO appoints new vice president

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
PIMCO Australia has named Adam Bowe as the new senior vice president for fixed income portfolio management and trading in Sydney. The former director of fixed income portfolio management at UBS Global Asset Management takes up the position at the end ...

UBS retains OptiMix as it closes ING IM deal

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 OCT 2011
... probably wouldn't need to do that," said the spokesperson. At present, Anne Anderson and Simon Shields, heads of UBS's fixed income and equities departments respectively, are managing their in house investment teams as well as ING IM's client portfolios. ...

AustralianSuper awards fresh mandates as FUM soars

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
... $525 million Australian equities mandate in the June quarter, while Schroders and Perennial picked up Australian fixed income mandates of $329 million and $381 million respectively in the same period. In the March quarter Bentham Asset Management was ...

BlackRock appoints ING Asian fixed income head

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2011
BlackRock has appointed Joel Kim, who joins from ING Investment Management, as head of Asia-Pacific fixed income. Kim will be based in Singapore, working closely with the global fixed income team to develop the Asian platform. He will also contribute ...

Bloomberg launches derivatives compliance platform

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... Dodd-Frank Act regulations will lead to greater scrutiny on the over the counter (OTC) derivatives sector. Bloomberg Fixed Income Trading in New York has produced a commingled trading platform for OTC swap trading, ALLQ Derivatives, allowing buy side ...

Super funds call for calm amid market fall

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... returns." Fok said that real assets such as infrastructure and property remained attractive particularly compared to fixed income, which is offering relatively low rates against inflation. A clear sign of the lack of confidence in markets is that the ...

Harvard defies critics with 21% return

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 SEP 2011
... 18%. Other strong performing asset classes were public commodities earning 27% and foreign bonds earning 21%. Even fixed income did well earning 8%. Absolute returns were however in the middle of the pack earning 12% only slightly above the 11% by the ...

Perpetual: fixed income is back

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
Fixed income and credit markets are coming back in style while better portfolio diversification is needed for most investors, according to Perpetual Investments. Michael Korber, head of credit at Perpetual, told a media briefing yesterday that while ...

Instos urged to grab sovereign debt chance

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
... portfolio of credit and capitalising on a more favourable risk reward profile, said Towers Watson's global head of fixed income manager research. The US downgrade and the ongoing efforts to prevent Greece from defaulting, or at least from doing so in ...