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Ipac awards $1bn in fixed interest mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 NOV 2010
... Capital for a cash plus, absolute return investment. The firm awarded the mandates following the dis-aggregation of its fixed income portfolio to gain more control over its debt allocations. "The major strategic change that we've put in place is to formally ...

More defensive products hit marketplace

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
... increasing investor demand for income-seeking strategies, while Dixon Advisory & Superannuation Services also launched a fixed income fund for retail investors. The Russell Australian Shares Enhanced Income Fund (RASEIF) aims to capture the anticipated ...

Macquarie beats expectations with interim results

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
... driven primarily through the acquisition of Delaware Investments. The company said that inflows and new mandates in fixed income were largely offset by the appreciation in Australian dollar against major global currencies. The company's Banking and Financial ...

Mixed results for US industry giants

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 21 OCT 2010
... eight quarters, but over 60 per cent of inflows for the quarter were into equity products, with 30 per cent into fixed income and the balance split across multi-asset class products and alternative investments. According to Rainmaker Information, BlackRock ...

Rising tide lifts hedge funds in September

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... According to the EDHEC figures, year to date the best performing international strategies include convertible arbitrage, fixed income arbitrage and distressed securities. Unsurprisingly in an equity market rebound, short selling has performed the wor ...

FuturePlus seeks more alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
... investments. Key to these strategies though is the fact that the funds will be reallocated from Australian equities, and not fixed income mandates. "The overwhelming idea is that it should be less volatile, and it's able to make a return of something ...

Asia-Pac HNWI market approaches US$10 tn: report

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... Standard that Australian HNWIs preference for property could partially be explained by the lack of a domestic market for fixed income. At just 14 per cent, Australian HNWIs allocations to fixed income were significantly lower than their overseas counterparts ...

Real return to balance

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... boards and planning groups are now actually starting to think about asset allocation again," said Simon Doyle, head of fixed income and multi-asset at the firm. Doyle said industry funds should move past hang-ups and concerns over peer and objective ...

RBS develops ESG strategy

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 24 SEP 2010
... same liquidity profile as listed equities so long-term strategies, particularly on ESG, will have a greater impact. Fixed income strategies, too, are harder to assess but that doesn't mean it cannot be done, given the renewed attention to fixed income ...

Global equities hurt NZ Super

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... Fund posted a 1.4 per cent decline after fees but before taxes in the month to 31 August, with a rally in global fixed income not enough to offset declines in global equity markets, to which the fund remains heavily exposed. The fund's assets stood at ...