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Transition mgmt takes centre stage

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 DEC 2010
... services at Russell Investments. A senior fund manager, who did not wish to be named, said that when super funds merge, fixed income portfolios tend to be liquidated because the underlying securities and strategies can be so different. But for long only ...

RMBS under the spotlight

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
... Securitisation Conference this week that the trade off between liquidity and yield continues to be top of mind among fixed income investors. However, he pointed out that current market structures in the RMBS market are still "not ideal" for delivering ...

Instreet appoints Brant to its board

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... Capital as managing director, a firm that sources investment solutions and wealth creation in the equity, commodity and fixed income markets to financial adviser groups, accountants and individuals. David Gordon, Instreet chair, said Instreet is well ...

When Irish eyes are frowning

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... currently being borne by its taxpayers has led to fears over haircuts on bond investments. Victor Rodriguez, head of fixed income at Aberdeen Asset Management Australia, said that the risk of creditors being forced to take a haircut at some point down ...

Suncorp Life sells Tyndall to Nikko AM

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... daily activities. The investment teams, process and brand will all be retained with the Australian equities value and fixed income teams to continue to be led by their respective heads, Bob Van Munster and Roger Bridges respectively. "The Tyndall Investments ...

Invesco makes the case for global REITs

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... Rodruigez said that global REITs can still offer investors diversification benefits over the long term, from both fixed income and equities. " Since the GFC, we saw a spike in correlations across various risk assets, but over time we will start to see ...

Schroders surges, shuns Gartmore

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... million from intermediaries and 900 million from private banking. By asset class, the flows were split 2.8 billion into fixed income, 600 million each into both alternatives and mutli-asset, with just 500 million into equities. For the first nine months ...

CBA plans retail bond offering

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... the dormant Australian retail bond market, Commonwealth Bank announced plans to tap retail investors' appetite for fixed income with the imminent launch of 5-year floating rate notes. The size of the offering is believed to be as large as $500 million ...

Antares wins ipac mandate

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
Ipac Asset Management has appointed Antares Fixed Income to manage a $100 million inflation-linked bonds mandate. The nabInvest specialist fixed income manager won the mandate after ipac re-configured its debt portfolio. Antares' FUM grow by over $3 ...

Amigos para siempre

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... measures to address that issue. It does create a problem." Only last month, Brazil's government raised the tax on fixed income securities investment from 2 per cent to six percent, and also lifted taxes on guarantees for futures and other derivatives ...