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New look diversified funds recommended: Lonsec

... Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) sold its Australian funds management businesses. Consequently, it appointed two new active managers last month, Challenger Managed Investments and Schroder Investment Management Australia, and passive manager State Street ...

Zurich adds new Aussie managers

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 28 MAY 2007
... Management. As part of its Australian equities manager line-up review, Zurich has appointed Challenger and Schroders as active managers and State Street as a passive manager. Aberdeen has been appointed to manage Australian fixed income and cash. "We ...

Vanguard puts case for passive-active allocation

... "Therefore the key is to use indexing as a central building block of a portfolio, and then try to find quality active managers to add alpha or outperformance." But finding active managers is the hard part. "Like Europe, the Australian marketplace is ...

Emerging markets by numbers: BlackRock

... money in emerging markets and are surprised we can do this at substantially lower fee rates than the well known active managers who have dominated this space" said Rick Vella, managing director of BlackRock's Quantitative Investor's (BQI) team in Princeton. ...

Contrarian managers make a comeback

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
Active managers are falling behind their contrarian counterparts after Australian share managers turned in their worst quarterly performance since 1990, according to Intech Investment Consulting. Intech senior investment analyst, Fraser Murray, said ...

NZ Super Fund scores big but cautions on the future

... volatility. It said it will aim to protect fund earnings through continuing diversification and finding capable active managers. It may well start re-evaluating its emerging markets equities sector allocation as 2005-06 figures show that the 'value added ...

Vanguard says volatility points to indexing

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 28 JUL 2006
... or stock X versus stock Y, said Bowerman. This may mean some of their allocation is to indexed funds, some to active managers and other areas, but it was all about getting the blend right, not the individual bets. "You know you're going to get the market ...

Active managers still outperforming index: Navigator

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 18 JUL 2006
Navigator's most recent Australian equity sector review revealed that most active managers continue to outperform index managers, with those focusing on small caps and growth style investing getting the lion's share of returns. While Navigator's research ...

Good returns and good luck

... Serhan, head of consulting for Morningstar, described how their research had found that in the short term some active managers were able to outperform the index funds, but as the time horizon extended they found fewer and fewer were able to sustain their ...

Super funds pile on global equities

... interest and cash in favour of global equities. "The re-weighting has enabled Vision Super to invest with specialist active managers, using more concentrated portfolios and targeting specific sectors of the world share markets," said Tilley. For example ...