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... and transparency strategy to benefit Aussie funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2010
... statement by CalPERS. CalPERS' placement agents include three former CalPERS board members, including longtime board president William D. Crist, who lobbied the pension fund on behalf of a fund manager looking for a slice of CalPERS' $204 billion in ...

Room for Russia in BRIC

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
... behind Brazil, India and China - but does anyone know what's happening in Russia? In Sydney this week, Mark Edwards, vice president of global fund manager T. Rowe Price, said he disagrees with the view that Russia is a no-go zone for investors. The region's ...

Star ratings face predictability test

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
... equivalent and a three-star rated US equity fund underperformed versus its two-star equivalent. But Morningstar's vice president in research, John Rekenthaler, wrote to the firm that the study is misleading and critiqued the analysis for defining a full-market ...

Good For China

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 14 JAN 2010
China is proving true to the words uttered by US President John F. Kennedy half a century earlier. In a speech in Indianapolis delivered on 12 April 1959, JFK said that, "When written in Chinese the word crisis is composed of two characters. One represents ...

US reform tightens net on big firms

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009
... (CFPA). Instead, an amendment proposed was the establishment of a council of regulators. In his weekly address last week, President Barack Obama applauded the step forward on financial reform. "Even as we dig our way out of this deep hole, it's important ...

12 Apostles

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 DEC 2009

PIMCO to expand Australian product suite

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
... global equities business and also developing an Australian bond exchange traded fund (ETF). Peter Dorrian, senior vice president at PIMCO Australia, said the firm had experienced an "extraordinary" amount of flows from the retail market, which increased ...

ASIC proposal exposes investors to default risk

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
... retail investors understand the nature and investment risks associated with corporate bonds." Peter Dorrian, senior vice president at PIMCO Australia, welcomed the proposal but said the local corporate bond market is small and retail investors will be ...

AFA doubles in four years

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2009
... has doubled its membership in four years, growing its ranks by more than 25 per cent this year. Jim Taggart, national president at the AFA, said the association has reacted to member calls for representation across the government, the regulator, the ...

We're still in Kansas

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 7 DEC 2009
... pump, I don't think he would want to see the experience of the Great Depression repeated under his watch. Not when as President Obama stated in an interview with CNN, "I think we'll be adding jobs, but you need 150,000 additional jobs each month just ...