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8IP adds Asian expert to team

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  MONDAY, 11 MAR 2013
... sales. His most recent role was as Head of Equity Strategy for the HK-based hedge fund Northwest Investment Management. Group CIO Kerry Series said that Gooding rounds up the fund's investment capability through his Asian markets knowhow, particularly ...

EU-wide ban on CDS pointless

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2013
... high volume of naked positions raises the likelihood of default of troubled countries. However, Paul Crean, co-founder and CIO of Finisterre Capital, said nominal volume of CDS positions alone is not big enough to have a meaningful impact on countries' ...

Alternative funds delivering: van Eyk

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2013
... private equity to real assets such as farm land, from 5% to 20%, van Eyk said. van Eyk Head of Manager Research and Deputy CIO Matthew Olsen said funds in this sector rated highly by van Eyk received their rating partly due to their ability to protect ...

SFG appoints CIO for Mosaic

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
Zurich Financial Services Australia's former head of investments has joined SFG Australia as chief investment officer of its portfolio construction business. SFG Australia said today that Matthew Drennan, who was executive general manager of investments ...

VicSuper and Aust Ethical adopt after-tax benchmark

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
... effects of franking credits and off-market buy-backs to help manage the portfolio in a tax effective manner. Oscar Fabian, CIO at VicSuper expects tax aware investing in Australian equities - through harvesting franking credits and by promoting lower ...

NZ Super Fund named world's most innovative

MARK STORY  |  THURSDAY, 6 DEC 2012
... Earlier in 2012 the Fund won the INFINZ Excellence in Treasury Award and the Executive Team of the Year in the New Zealand CIO Awards. It was also rated 1st equal for combined Transparency & Governance, out of more than 80 funds, in a 2012 study by the ...

CIO and COO award nominations now open

STAFF JOURNALIST  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
Following on from the 2012 inaugural Superannuation Industry awards for Chief Investment Officer (CIO) and Chief Operating Officer (COO), La Trobe Financial has announced that nominations for the 2013 Awards are now officially open. Organised by La ...

More risk checks needed for super fund equities

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 4 DEC 2012
... extreme market stress, and it's mostly an issue when transitioning portfolios between managers, Ridley said. Sam Sicilia, CIO of HOSTPLUS, said that any event so extreme that it caused sector-wide illiquidity problems would be something so severe it ...

In-house investment management risky

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 30 NOV 2012
... internal investment management that funds can adapt to suit their needs. "A fund might want to just add an extra person such as a CIO, or they may want to operate as an internal 'manager of managers'," he said, explaining that this is Sunsuper's current ...

Euro endurance is lesser of two evils

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 NOV 2012
... eurozone remains arguably the single biggest concerns for global investors but McMahon, a cross-asset strategist in UBS's CIO investment office, says that the survival of the euro, and the associated cost, is a lesser evil than its collapse. "An exit ...