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Schroders appoints UBS director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 25 FEB 2010
Schroder Investment Management Australia has appointed former UBS director, Jasmin Argyrou, to the Australian fixed income team as fund manager. This appointment increases the size of the Australian team to nine. In her new role at Schroders, Argyrou ...

Hasting sells off HUT stake

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... investment banking arm of Royal Bank of Canada. With over 4,000 employees, RBC Capital Markets is active globally in fixed income, foreign exchange, infrastructure finance, metals, mining and energy. Working with clients through operations in Asia and ...

Macq sovereign bond fund scoops $300m

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... Currency and Commodities Asset Management division said the idea came out of investors wanting to restructure their fixed income allocations after the GFC. For example, in the past 18 months, many investors have turned to separating their credit and ...

Norway pension enlists RI researcher

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... Government Pension fund has selected European responsible investment house, GES Investment Services, to screen its fixed income and equities portfolios for tobacco and weapons criteria. The research mandate means GES will screen the fund's portfolios ...

Waked leaves BlackRock

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2010
... while Russell Maddox will lead the Fundamental Investments business for Australia, with an emphasis on Australian fixed income, Fundamental equities and multi-sector asset portfolios. Blake Grossman, BlackRock vice chair replaces Waked effective as Global ...

Tyndall head moves to Industry Funds Management

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... meantime. According to Rainmaker Data, Tyndall manages more than $11 billion in funds across Australian equities and fixed income. Under Himbury's helm, the group's fund range returned top quartile performance and, in January 2009, the fund manager adopted ...

Trichet to the rescue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... something. Consensus was against them. Just look at the litany of literature warning investors to underweight government fixed income securities that have cropped up since the start of the year. For bondholders who weren't able to exit when the Greek ...

Public policy to reshape investment risk: PIMCO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... bigger hand in portfolio construction as governments play a more interventionist role in financial markets, a leading fixed income expert warned. Mohamed El-Erian, chief executive officer and co-chief investment officer at PIMCO, said the traditional ...

New chapter in savings after government guarantee ends

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... problems for financial services providers that reconfigured their products around the guarantee. Roger Bridges, head of fixed income at Tyndall/Suncorp, said that the withdrawal of the Wholesale Guarantee will not affect the majors [the big four banks] ...

ERSEL selects RIMES for tech

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... performance solutions provider for the investment community. "Barra Performance on RIMES simplifies the use of equity and fixed income benchmarks, which come pre-loaded and ready to be utilised," said Christian Fauvelais, chief executive of RIMES. The ...