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BlackRock appoints director of insto client business

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 9 APR 2013
BlackRock has appointed Prema Basoor as director of its institutional client business in Australia. She will begin on 17 April and will report to head of institutional client business for Australia, Jason Collins, whose appointment from Ascalon was ...

Pricing of unlisted assets call for new model: Northfield

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
... lens of listed businesses is not new, Northfield has accumulated enough data that may not be accessible to locally-based insto investors. For example, the group regularly tracks a list of 70,000 listed equities, which allows it to update risk profiles ...

Instos on verge of piling into Asian bonds

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2013
Australian institutional bond investors are considering increasing their allocations to Asia Pacific, where record levels of bond issuance are broadening opportunities for diversification and relatively high returns. AllianceBernstein director of Asia ...

Small shareholders eclipsed by instos

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 11 FEB 2013
Large institutions including Australian superannuation funds and offshore investors are increasing their allocation to listed Australian companies while small shareholders have slashed their portfolios, a study for the Australian Investor Relations ...

Confident Instos return to global equities

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
The State Street Investor Confidence Index has risen for the second consecutive month. Up 5.4 points from December's revised reading of 81.4 to reach 86.8, State Street Global Markets, the investment research arm of the financial services giant, said ...

New head of Insto sales at La Trobe

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2013
Melbourne-based fund manager La Trobe Financial has appointed former ASF Group executive director Sally Humphris as its new head of institutional sales. After running third-party distributor ASF Group, and holding several senior management positions ...

Insto property investors forced overseas

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
As account balances grow and compulsory super contributions are increased, Australia's superannuation funds will meet a shortage of viable domestic property assets to invest in, forcing them overseas, according to LaSalle Investment Management's Paul ...

Insto investors confront liquidity crunch

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 7 DEC 2012
Institutional investors have responded to liquidity concerns flagged by the global financial crisis by rethinking their asset allocation strategies, according to a new State Street report. The research, entitled The Asset Owners' Perspective: Evolving ...

Insto's ignoring climate change

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 DEC 2012
Climate Change is an issue that has never been raised at board level in some of Australia's largest financial institutions, said a prominent economist. Just like during the global financial crisis, when sub-prime risk left many reeling, the investment ...

Head of insto distribution to leave Challenger

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 NOV 2012
Challenger's general manager, institutional business & strategic alliances has resigned for a new position at Henderson Global Investors. Matt Gaden will take on the role of head of distribution for Henderson's Australian business. Gaden has been with ...