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New CIO for Vanguard Asia-Pac

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  FRIDAY, 9 NOV 2012
Vanguard announced today that Gregory Davis, principal and head of bond indexing in Vanguard's Fixed Income Group, will assume the CIO role for the Asia Pacific region in 2013. Davis, who has held a number of different investment roles during his 13-year ...

William Blair appoints head of distribution in Australia

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... distribution for investment. Before that he was managing director, head of sales and marketing for Principal Global Investors Australia for six years where he was responsible for the company's re-launch following the sale of BT to Westpac. FranASois ...

Volatility breeds opportunism: Report

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 4 OCT 2012
... Conventional investment wisdom has been sidelined by continued market volatility, said a study commissioned by Principal Global Investors. As a result, the report, undertaken by CREATE-Research, said new ways of investing and managing assets through ...

Principal Global gets $150m QFII quota

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 30 AUG 2012
Global asset manager Principal Global Investors has been approved for a $150m Qualified Foreign Institutional Investor (QFII) quota to be invested directly in China's A-share markets. The quota approval from the Chinese State Administration of Foreign ...

ILB manager Ardea launches new fund

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2012
... ripples caused by foreign leaders' efforts to generate growth at any cost - including by inflationary means, said Ardea principal Tamar Hamlyn. "Australia is not immune to the impact of foreign monetary decisions. As we've had a prolonged period of historically ...

Principal Global Investors appoints COO

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 7 AUG 2012
Principal Global Investors has appointed former AMP Capital executive Peter Smyth to the newly created role of chief operating officer and head of product, Australia. In his role, Smyth will work with Australian chief executive, Grant Forster to develop ...

ILB protect fixed-income: HSBC

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 22 JUN 2012
... compared to the rest of the world, so a simple global approach may not be the best one for all funds. Tamar Hamlyn, Principal and co-founder of Ardea Investment Management, said, "These [issues] include our floating currency, which can depreciate at ...

Advisers use of ETFs on the rise

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAY 2012
... boutique end advisers and the next highest is the institutionally owned groups," said Mark Johnston, Investment Trends principal. Of the group (27%) of advisers who encountered problems with ETFs, lack of third party research (28%) and education (22%) ...

AQR wins ipac mandate

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 5 MAR 2012
... efficient access to a highly-diversified portfolio of traditional asset classes, not just equities," said Jeff Dunn, principal at AQR. AQR is an alternative investment management firm with approximately US$45 bn in assets under management as at December ...

Eyes turn to monetary policy

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 2 FEB 2012
... week. The high calibre line-up of chief economists included Dr Bob Baur, chief global economist for Principal Global Investors, Tim Harcourt, chief economist of Australian Global Economics at the UNSW Australian School of Business, Clifford Bennett ...