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Equity based strategies hedge fund winners

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 16 SEP 2011
... Manager; Best Long Short & Absolute return fund was awarded to Optimal Australia Absolute Trust and the inaugural Best Fixed Income & Credit Fund went to the Kapstream Absolute Return Income Fund. AQR was selected as Best Offshore Manager operating in ...

Deutsche Asset Management adds to Fixed Income team

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
Deutsche Bank's Asset Management business has appointed credit analyst Jennifer Wee to its fixed income team based in Melbourne. Wee will work with local team members Chris Siniakov, Andrew Canobi and Steve Sutcliffe on the management of Deutsche Asset ...

nabInvest secures US firm stake

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 AUG 2011
... National Australia Bank's direct asset management business, nabInvest, has bought up a minority stake in a US global fixed income investment management firm, in a bid to expand its range of asset classes. Peridiem Global Investors, based in Los Angeles ...

CFS Global Asset Management creates new emerging market debt team

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 23 AUG 2011
... for debt from corporate and sovereign borrowers in South America, Russia and Asia," she said. CFSGAM also manages fixed income portfolios in Australia and has $50.8 billion in credit, fixed interest and cash assets. It controls $51 billion in equities ...

Vanguard appoints senior portfolio manager, fixed income

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 22 AUG 2011
... Vanguard has appointed Gemma Wright-Casparius as a senior portfolio manager and principal of the firm's US-based fixed income group. She will report to Kenneth Volpert, principal and head of Vanguard's taxable bond group. Wright-Casparius will co-manage ...

H2O scores Mercer mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
... a shortage of managers operating in this space, which made H2O an appealing option. "There are a lot more global fixed income managers that manage a broader suite of assets within global fixed income as opposed to this strategy which is a specialist ...

ETF provider wants to expand asset class range

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 11 AUG 2011
... expanding asset classes that are available in ETFs," he said. "There are regulatory constraints on being able to offer fixed income ETFs in Australia currently but the regulators are working on that and we feel pretty confident that as it expands the ...

Bond broker targets WA planners

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 AUG 2011
Fixed income broker FIIG Securities has opened an office in Perth to provide bond investment services to financial planners in Western Australia. FIIG, which has over $6 billion in term deposits under advice, will give WA planners access to short term ...

Stocks in freefall on recession fears, banks cut mortgage rates

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 9 AUG 2011
... soared in thin trade and yields fell as fund managers and hedgers priced in interest rate cuts. Anne Anderson, head of fixed income global asset management for UBS, said the three-year Australian government bond (expiry June 2014) closed last night at ...

US ceiling raised but underlying reasons remain

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 5 AUG 2011
... problem." Meanwhile, Dr. Michael Hasenstab, portfolio manager and co-director, international bonds, Franklin Templeton Fixed Income Group, said the US will continue to suffer if it cannot move beyond structural issues in its finance system. "We believe ...