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Equity benchmarks too risky amid volatility: SSGA

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
... favour of a truly active approach amid recent and likely on-going market volatility. In the company's active Australian equities Annual Review and Outlook 2015/2016, SSGA's head of active quantitative equity for Asia Pacific, Olivia Engel and senior ...

Economic experts still defensive in 2016

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 JAN 2016
... growth still looked someway off. Lower share prices had improved valuations, but not to the extent of making Australian equities outright attractive as an investment. The panelists said for the Morningstar Australian Strategic and Tactical Asset Allocations ...

Tribeca creates new investment role

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
... key role in investments across all of Tribeca's funds with a particular focus on further developing its international equities capabilities. The role was created as a result of strong business growth over the past year. Daily said Moore brings with him ...

ASIC bans former Macquarie planner

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 19 JAN 2016
ASIC has given a former Macquarie Equities employee a three-year ban. Ben Rickman was found by the regulator "not to be adequately trained or competent to provide financial services," having done so as a Macquarie Equities representative from 2012 to ...

SMSFs and growth funds hit hardest by sell-off

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 JAN 2016
... non-equity allocations. The estimates include an average 8% drop across all equity portfolios and a 0.3% average return on non-equities. MySuper high-growth funds are estimated to have lost about 6.3% overall, SMSFs 4.4% and the average MySuper fund ...

Bell Financial Group posts strong result

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2016
... the division to profit before tax (unaudited) of $2.1 million, 37% ahead of 2014. Revenue in the full service retail equities business rose 4% to $102 million, with profit before tax (unaudited) up 130% to $8 million. Revenue in Bell Direct, the company's ...

Aussie large-cap active managers endure massive outflows

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... unlisted funds lost between $3 billion and $12 billion in assets per year over the last five years. In its latest Australian Equities Large-Cap Sector Wrap, Morningstar said active managers littered the field for enduring the biggest outflows and one ...

Hedge funds suffer worst year since 2011

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2016
... down 4.48% for the month following the steep downturn in oil prices and the consequent double-digit losses in Russian equities.

Wingate appoints senior investment analyst

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 12 JAN 2016
Wingate Asset Management has a new senior investment analyst. Covering equities research and risk analysis, Thomas Hodson joins Wingate from UCA Funds Management, where he was also a senior investment analyst. Prior to that, he held roles at Barclays ...

Martin Currie completes PK Investment Management deal

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JAN 2016
... for the enlarged team will be $594 million (US$425 million). Kirkby has over 30 years' experience in managing Japanese equities and the team has almost 100 years of combined experience of the Japanese market. Kirkby has also been appointed as lead manager ...