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US$50bn US manager lands in Sydney

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
US based global equity and fixed income specialist Artio Global Investors has set up an office in Sydney with designs to attract super fund investment and increase distribution into Asia. The manager, which has almost US$50 billion in assets under management ...

BNP Paribas return to defensive fixed income

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 4 JUL 2011
BNP Paribas Investment Partners wants fixed income to return to a defensive asset class, launching a fixed income capability in Australia, and moving away from its previous equity-like status. The global asset manager has launched the BNP Paribas Asset ...

UBS undecided on OptiMix future

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... and ING IM, which will continue to manage its own funds until the deal closes, have large cap equity and Australian fixed income teams and UBS will be "flexible about how it might structure things." A key decision will be where to place ING IM's multi ...

New index rates sovereign debt issuers

BLACKROCK RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUL 2011
... help fund managers assess credit risk for governments that issue sovereign debt. Steve Miller, head of Australian fixed income at BlackRock, said the BlackRock Sovereign Risk Index would help portfolios to better reflect the credit integrity of sovereign ...

ING IM deal sees UBS climb the ranks

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUN 2011
... billion in FUM. Perhaps more significant is the fact that UBS will become the second largest manager of Australian fixed income. It is currently number 11 on the charts with $8 billion in FUM, while ING IM is number 14 with around $6 billion. The majority ...

Long-term strategies pay off for investors

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUN 2011
... property but both asset classes delivered better returns than the more conservative asset classes such as cash and fixed income. The results, compared over 10, 20 and 25-year periods to 31 December 2010, found Australian shares returned on an after-tax ...

CFS super deposit taps demand, relieves wholesale reliance

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
Colonial First State has launched a new deposit product to tap demand for fixed income as more superannuation funds enter the drawdown phase. The new FirstRate Investment Deposits offers a floating interest rate based on the reserve bank cash rate plus ...

Asian private wealth tops Europe

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2011
... the world's HNWIs, while Japan and Germany make up another 25%. There was a notable shift from cash deposits and fixed income investments back into equities and commodities. By the end of 2010, HNWIs held 33% of their investments in equities, up from ...

Three Aberdeen Fixed Income Funds 'On Hold': S&P

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
Due to the resignation of Stuart Gray, a portfolio manager in Aberdeen's Asset Management Australian fixed income team, Standard and Poor's (S&P) has placed three Aberdeen funds 'On Hold'. The three funds affected by Gray's departure are the Aberdeen ...

ANZ employs GBST platform

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
... process all types of assets within one system. ANZ will use it to increase transparency and control in processing fixed income, treasury, equities and OTC derivatives assets, and also for central reference data management. GBST said that it had a number ...