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NZ Superannuation Fund excludes four firms from portfolio

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 SEP 2012
... Nations Global Compact is the key benchmark against which the Fund measures corporate behaviour. The fund's global equity portfolio, includes shares in more than 6,500 companies around the world, and tracks global equity indices including the MSCI large-cap ...

Marathon assets under review

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 13 SEP 2012
... three founders of Marathon Asset Management, in December. The UK-based fund manager, which has secured global equity portfolio mandates in Australia from key industry and government super funds, sent a letter to the firm's Australian clients in July ...

Morphic Asset Management opens for business

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 9 JUL 2012
... Hall fund managers at the helm. Morphic Asset Management has been established by two former Hunter Hall global equity portfolio managers, Jack Lowenstein and Chad Slater, who will be joint chief investment officers. Morphic will be majority owned by ...

Dressing the windows

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUN 2012
Is she? Was she? Who did it? Poor Frau no deal "as long as I live" Angie babe. My apologies, this is a very nasty thing to even contemplate but just try and put two and two together - last night's equity markets rally and yesterday's statement by the ...

NAB AS wins Maple-Brown Abbott mandate

RACHEL DAVIS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAY 2012
National Australia Bank's Asset Servicing division has been appointed to provide custodial and administration services to Maple-Brown Abbott's retail funds, one of nine new clients the business has won in the past nine months. With approximately $10 ...

Active risk under spotlight

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... money, you don't have to make as much on the upside to beat the market." The struggle of how to get a better equity portfolio that takes more active risk has created a global interest in models to find successful managers with a higher tracking error ...

Aubrey lands Skandia mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 APR 2012
Treasury Group backed global equities boutique, Aubrey Capital Management, has secured a $30 million mandate from Skandia Investment Group. The mandate was awarded after a competitive tender and takes Aubrey Capital's total funds under management to ...

Market ripe for private equity

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2012
Institutions deleveraging to shore-up balance sheets is leading to a buyer's market for private equity, according to one provider. "In Europe alone the banks need to deleverage their balance sheets by 1.5 to 2.5 trillion euros," said Reto Schwager ...

IFM wins $500m CalSTRS mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 FEB 2012
In one of the largest single infrastructure investments by a US fund manager, CalSTRS has awarded a $500 million mandate to Australian manager, IFM, to gain exposure to the global infrastructure market. The California State Teachers' Retirement System ...

China on course for slowdown, not landing: Fidelity

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 3 FEB 2012
... from the developed world to the growing markets and clearly Asia is a key part of that." Fidelity Australian equity portfolio manager Kate Howitt said Australian equities were currently not as desirable as they were in 2006/7. "If you think about buying ...