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Fund managers still favour international shares

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
... shares (MSCI All Country World Index, ex Australia) lost 0.8 per cent. Sentiment also remained bearish in the Australian bond market, as well as in property, with a small increase in bearish property managers, while bonds showed a slight decrease, down ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2007
The Australian bond market fell overnight as US equities staged a comeback amid growing confidence the economy can weather a rise in delinquent mortgages made to risky borrowers. At 0900 AEDT, the yield on the Commonwealth Government February 2017 bond ...

Asset Super's strategic investment shift

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
... international shares by $31 million and Australian bonds by $67 million. Paul said the fund is replacing their active Australian bond mandate currently with BT in favour of implementing a passive investment strategy through SSGA. "We are moving from ...

Tyndall's new fixed interest strategy sees Gustafson exit

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
... and the demand for plain vanilla products to continue to decrease." The new strategy means Bridges, the current Australian bond manager, will assume the new role of head of bonds while Gustafson moves on. Sheehan said that Gustafson is leaving the Tyndall ...

Daily economic round-up

ALFRED SINN  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2006
... 2.1 per cent in 2005 after renewed international pressure and it seems like a case of deja vu. Back home, the Australian bond market opened softer this morning after a moderate US CPI figure was released on Friday, cooling speculation that the US Federal ...

Asset Super reallocates assets with new mandates

Asset Super's rapidly swelling FUM has caused it to rethink and reallocate its investment allocation, resulting in new mandates being given to QUEST Asset Partners and Perennial. Intech, the fund's asset allocation managers, will oversee the process ...

2006 market conditions will suit value investing: Tyndall

... international bonds. Gustafson forecast "modest" cyclical growth in the global economy over 2006 and predicted that Australian bond yields will "drift" up but warned investors not to take capital risks on long bonds to enhance investment returns. Gustafson ...

PSS and CSS drink up their Brandywine

The Public Sector and Commonwealth Super (PSS and CSS) funds have awarded a near half a billion dollar mandate to Brandywine Asset Management for their fixed income allocation. Brandywine will be the PSS/CSS funds' fourth fixed interest manager alongside ...

Fund managers doubt local equities: Russell

Overvaluation of the Australian equity market is a big concern and is driving offshore investment, say 46 per cent of fund managers, according to a new survey released by Russell Investment Group. The survey, which reviewed the opinions of 50 leading ...

S&P assesses UBS Australia's funds

... Poor's (S&P) has awarded a range of Assirt ratings to its funds including a five-star rating to its cash fund, Australian bond fund, Property Securities fund and Australian share fund. As such S&P has provided 'very strong' sector ratings to UBS Australia's ...