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Fixed income manager opens Australian office

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 22 AUG 2017
A European fixed income and active management specialist has opened an Australian office. BlueBay Asset Management appointed Ciaran McAssey to head its new Melbourne office. He has worked at the firm for more than five years and is currently head of ...

Less room for mid-tier asset managers: Stern

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 AUG 2017
... Speaking to Financial Standard ahead of the merger with Aberdeen Asset Management - which will create a major active management entity worth more than $1 trillion in assets - Stern said "the whole concept of scale" will become an increasingly important ...

UniSuper brings investment option in-house

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  MONDAY, 7 AUG 2017
... technology. It delivers what the fund calls a more 'true to label' offer for members. "The internalisation and active management of this option will deliver the added portfolio construction benefits of reduced stock concentration, better liquidity management ...

Douglass makes case for Magellan turnaround

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2017
... competitive advantages." He also said the success of these companies makes a strong case for the ongoing role of active management in investment portfolios. Comparing performance to an S&P 500 index fund - a worthwhile counterpoint given that 13 out ...

AustralianSuper posts annual investment results

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  FRIDAY, 7 JUL 2017
... uncertainty," Delaney said. "It's a great result for our more than 2.2 million members and it shows the benefit of active management as well as our program to internalise the management of our assets." Delaney added that about $26 billion, or about 22% ...

The challenge of finding true active management

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUN 2017
Active management has a critical role to play in the current global economic environment - but it pays to know what you're getting out of it. Speaking at a T. Rowe Price investment briefing in Sydney, national sales manager Darren Hall noted that it's ...

Short selling is 'smart money': Research

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUN 2017
... spate of high profile corporate failures such as Slater and Gordon and Dick Smith highlight the importance of active management in this context, Tay added. Zenith analysed the level of short selling interest across ASX-listed companies from June 2010. ...

Quant not active management blasphemy: Robeco BP

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUN 2017
Quantitative analysis can play a role in bottom-up active management despite its detractors, according to Robeco Boston Partners senior analyst Daniel Farren. Speaking to Financial Standard, Farren referenced the "three circles" philosophy Boston Partners ...

Global economy biased toward active management

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 11 MAY 2017
A majority of investors are turning to actively managed investments in times of economic volatility, new research by global asset manager Natixis found. Eight in ten (79%) investors said they favour active managers to help generate alpha in this current ...

Investors paying more for less: Research

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 MAY 2017
... need to achieve significant outperformance after their fees are paid in order to justify taking the risk on active management."