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Bond index returns beat active managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
Financial planners should rethink how they invest in Australian bonds after research found active managers underperformed the benchmark more than 94 per cent of the time over three and five years. The Vanguard study, which drew research from Standard ...

GMO and Lazard win combined $1.4bn in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... Multi-manager ipac is rehashing its $4 billion Australian equities portfolio with new 'tailored mandates' that allow active managers to tap mid to small cap stocks as value adds to the firm's strategy. For instance, around 60 per cent of Lazard and GMO's ...

Boost allocation to top active managers: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
Active managers enter a sweet spot in investments history with a three-year window to seriously make a mint for their investors, said BGI. The analysis paper, Why the financial crisis has made markets less efficient, by Andrew Jackson, director of research ...

Capital protection should be core to satellite

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... cost (as the "core" portion of the portfolio is in indexed investments) and capture alpha from a select group of active managers but with the risk hedged. "Capital protection can enable investors to take exposure to unfamiliar assets, especially those ...

REST to allocate more active Aussie eq mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... Damian Hill, chief executive of REST, said the fund was "strongly in the active management camp", believing that active managers would be better suited to bring in higher returns post-GFC. "We'd have to be multiples of the size we are now before we would ...

Platform money flows back into markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... financial advisers," he said. "We're seeing a real drive back into simplicity although we are starting to see the good active managers get support again." While platform flows are targeting listed markets again, Kenny said support for cash products is ...

APFC seeks absolute return director

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 29 JUN 2009
... investment opportunities. The incumbent will manage the rebalancing program via derivatives, ETF's, index funds and active managers for the entire portfolio. Additionally, the selected candidate will provide knowledge, perspective, input, and assistance ...

Active manager mandates to increase: Mercer

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
... of the country's largest asset consultants, is advising its institutional clients to allocate more funds with active managers to capture the one-off abnormal returns coming out of stockmarkets as they switch into recovery mode. Simon Eagleton, principal ...

AustralianSuper saves $4m per year

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... said AustralianSuper could save millions per annum after rehashing the fund's mandate line-up to cull some of its active managers and focus more on passive management. Rubin said a 10 per cent increase in passive management for example can add 3.2 basis ...

Active managers be warned: Frontier

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
Frontier Investment Consulting's $89 billion client base is increasingly questioning the high fees of active managers - a clear sign these managers need to lift their game, said the firm's managing director, Fiona Trafford-Walker. Trafford-Walker, who ...