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NZ Super awards 4 mandates to Northern Trust

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 OCT 2013
... New Zealand Superannuation Fund has appointed Northern Trust's asset management arm, a leading global provider of index, active and multi-manager solutions, to manage four new passive global equities mandates. The mandates track global large cap, global ...

netweath platform to host SSgA Retirement Solution funds

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 14 OCT 2013
... investment manager said the funds invest in a range of assets, including alternatives, implemented through a combination of active, passive and ETF investments. The SSgA Retirement Lifestyle Solutions comprise three unique absolute return strategies ...

Centrepoint optimistic after completing AAP acquisition

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
After a tough year for independent dealer group Professional Investment Services (PIS), parent company Centrepoint is confident that the full acquisition of Associated Advisory Practices (AAP) will improve the group's performance. AAP and Associated ...

Advisers to get social media insight at AFA Conference

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... signing copies of his book '140 Characters: A style guide for the short form'. Twitter, which has an estimated 200 million active users worldwide per month, is in the final stage of preparing for its stock market listing for an initial offer price that ...

Insto investors want better marketing material

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 OCT 2013
... presented while too much superfluous information is provided. Preqin said their research findings, based on a survey of 100 active institutional investors in private equity, real estate and infrastructure, show that a major disconnect exists between ...

Russell multi-manager funds get top Zenith rating

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 OCT 2013
... which asset-class exposures are gained through discrete investment vehicles, with derivatives more commonly used to enact active asset allocation strategies. Zenith will release the ratings outcomes of its single manager and newly created real return ...

NAB launches new set of real return portfolios

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013
... GFC reminded people of the brutal way that markets can be and that they can't always be relied upon. This is a much more active strategy, away from the constraints of a balanced portfolio. It's about protecting people's raw income." The portfolios are ...

Vision Super awards $2.3bn active currency mandate

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 OCT 2013

Asset consultants "useless": Oxford University study

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 30 SEP 2013
... consultants with a combined share of 91% of the US investment consulting market and analysed the consultants' recommendations of active equity products over a 13 year period. It also examined the drivers, the impact, and the accuracy of these recommendations. ...

Super funds hungry for global equities specialists

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 27 SEP 2013
... calling the Australian system "a model for the rest of the world." Carnegie specialises in bottom-up, benchmark unaware, active management. It holds no more than 30 stocks at a time, preferring large to mega cap companies for liquidity purposes. It is ...