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Lazard targets instos with new EM fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 NOV 2010
Lazard Asset Management has opened up its Developing Markets Equity Fund to Australian institutional investors. The fund is managed out of the firm's New York office and is based on a strategy that has been running since 2008. The product was opened ...

Instos want more rewards for low-carbon assets

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
A group statement signed by 259 global investors, with collective assets totalling over US$15 trillion, calls for stronger policies to incentivise more private capital going into sustainable investments The group statement expresses concern for "risks ...

QIC offers instos inflation protection

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 18 OCT 2010
One of the country's largest fixed interest managers raises the ante in the race to provide investors with income protection against rising inflation. After a brief period of incubation, Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) has opened the QIC GFI ...

AMIST Super takes driver's seat on cash and bonds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... be working more closely with Pham on the bond mandate. This reflects a trend reported early on by asset consultants about insto investors becoming more hands-on with monitoring their assets even if the day-to-day management is outsourced to an external ...

Global instos see Aus deficit a "non-issue"

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 8 OCT 2010
One of Australia's largest bond managers said that hysteria surrounding the federal budget position was misplaced with Australia's deficit and liabilities "marginal" compared to other countries. "There is certainly a lot of politics around the issue ...

Investec eyes aircraft leasing market

NEWS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
... yesterday and appointed a former senior Qantas executive to its investment committee. Investec said it was seeking funds from insto investors to invest in "high demand, new generation commercial aircraft on lease to tier-one and tier-two airlines." The ...

MetLife appoints insto distribution head

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
MetLife Insurance has appointed former Marsh Employee Benefits national manager, Peter Smith, as head of institutional distribution for MetLife in Australia. Smith, in his most recent role of national manager at Marsh, was responsible for group and ...

Fidelity Australia nearly doubles FUM

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 SEP 2010
... teamwork". Fidelity said its products have been receiving strong support at the both institutional and retail level, with its insto clients almost doubling over the past year, and advisers increasingly using its products. The company, which jumped 10 ...

Planners must follow insto go signal

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
Equity risk appetite is back in positive territory among institutional investors - a trend planners sitting on the cash fence should pay heed to or risk clients missing out on the upside, an expert told 400 advisers and investors at an Asgard forum. ...

Insto flows boost TRG results

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 26 AUG 2010
Treasury Group Limited, which supports, distributes and invests in boutique fund management businesses, reported a near 36 per cent increase in normalised net profits yesterday, off the back of net inflows and improving markets. The company said normalised ...