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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 ...

Eaton Vance affiliate names Aust MD

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 FEB 2012
Parametric, a majority-owned subsidiary of Eaton Vance Corp, has appointed Scott Lawrence as its managing director for Australia. Lawrence has been performing this Melbourne-based role on a consultancy basis for the past ten months and will be responsible ...

Perpetual hires ex-port manager to equities team

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JAN 2012
... Aboud worked with Skamvougeras once before at Ellerston Capital from 2006 to 2009 where they ran a long/short equity portfolio, predominantly focused on Australia. Prior to Ellerston Capital, he was lead analyst at UBS Investment Bank from 1998 to 2006 ...

Volatile markets spark innovation

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JAN 2012
... market beta that sit behind volatility." While current offerings allow the snapshot calculation of risk within an equity portfolio at a given point in time, MSCI anticipates the upcoming release of tools that go one step further and actually help in ...

Instos set sights on Indonesian assets

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
Economic ties between Australia and Indonesia look to be strengthening with the Asian country last week joining the ASEAN-Australia-New Zealand Free Trade Agreement. The move means up to 92 % of Australia's merchandise exports will eventually be able ...

NGS Super embraces after-tax benchmarking with FTSE ASFA

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 DEC 2011
... after-tax benchmark from the industry standard FTSE ASFA Australia Index Series for its $1.3 billion Australian equity portfolio. Using this benchmark, NGS Super will apply an income tax rate for superannuation funds but will also include franking credits ...

SSgA: Minimise volatilty to protect vulnerable investors

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 25 NOV 2011
State Street Global Advisers is urging super and multi-manager funds to consider minimising volatility strategies in their domestic equity portfolios, as events on the world stage continue to spook equity markets. "While equities are likely to present ...