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Mercer highlights allocation dangers

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 NOV 2011
... opportunities," said Stuart, adding that small caps are overvalued. "Cash is the preferred defensive asset, with investment grade credit and Australian government bonds also having stretched valuations," said Stuart. "Our view that the Australian dollar ...

Perpetual: fixed income is back

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 22 SEP 2011
... international equities with 34%. Blayney suggested investors begin introducing private debt, low yield bonds and investment grade credit to counteract that risk.

Deutsche Asset Management adds to Fixed Income team

RACHEL DAVIS  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2011
... management of Deutsche Asset Management's Australian Fixed Income portfolios. She will be responsible for analysis of investment grade, corporate bond issuers and join the global investment team of more than 150 professionals. "We are delighted to have ...

BlackRock Aus share fund on hold as manager retires

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 13 SEP 2011
... period to ensure a smooth transition. Morningstar has placed the Australian Share strategy on hold, removing its 'Investment Grade' recommendation until details of a successor emerge. The Australian Share Portfolio has a team of six, including portfolio ...

Omega bond launch timed for asset allocation shift

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 8 SEP 2011
... and retail market. The fund is being seeded with $200 million and will offer investors a low risk portfolio of investment grade fixed interest securities and Australian entities issuing offshore. "We think in the coming months people will sit down in ...

Towers Watson grows team after benefiting from super mergers

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2011
... "Examples might be private loans, purchasing infrastructure debt on the secondary market, mezzanine debt or sub-investment grade corporate bonds." New analysts Jordan Taylor, Deepti Tammareddi and Andrew Tay, will focus on portfolio construction, manager ...

Perpetual downgraded as FUM redistributed

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... comfort in the fund in his hands and over its capacity in general." On June 22, Morningstar downgraded the fund to 'Investment Grade', also not convinced Sevior would be returning. Perpetual told Financial Standard on June 23 that while Sevior may not ...

The other Greece

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
... credit-rating agency cut Portugal's credit rating to Ba2 from Baa1 -making it the second Eurozone member with a non-investment grade credit rating (no cigars for guessing who's the first) and warned that, "A further downgrade could be triggered by a ...

Sevior departure rated as permanent

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUN 2011
Morningstar has downgraded Perpetual's Concentrated Equity fund to 'Investment Grade' after meeting with the mega-fund manager but not convinced that its star player, John Sevior, will return from long service leave. In a meeting last week with Perpetual ...

van Eyk calls for pay for ratings disclosure

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUN 2011
... offer. "Above average returns cannot be achieved when the majority of strategies are reviewed and receive an investment grade rating. In over 21 years in this market van Eyk believes that, in most cases, no more than one third of the talent on offer ...