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AXA Rosenberg eyes emerging markets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... likely require a minimum investment of $10 million. He said the emerging market product would not favour any particular country or sector, instead the firm uses a combination of two quantitative models, valuation and earnings forecast, to analyse stocks. ...

Clay Finlay re-invents growth

... equities manager flew 15,000 kilometers from their US headquarters to Australia to have a shot at winning mandates from the country's $1.3 trillion golden sanctum of super funds. "Clay Finlay is looking to re-enter the Australian market. We've had a ...

Australia catches Dutch Disease

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2008
... we pay for imports in relation to the prices we receive for our exports. It is often seen as a de facto indicator of a country's net wealth and so our terms of trade surging due to our commodities' export boom is consistently seen as a good thing. But ...

Ventura breaks benchmark shackles

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
... Harris Associates. "The Fund has been designed to give managers greater flexibility to implement their skills regardless of country or sector positions. It takes off those benchmark shackles and lets the managers add alpha according to their skill," ...

Investit sets up local shop

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2008
... Investit's local clients. "We're finding that investment managers are becoming more and more global, and just working from one country doesn't really work - we need to be spread out where our clients are," said Neill. Neill said that the "timing is right" ...

Future Fund continues hiring spree

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 FEB 2008
... team includes industry heavyweights Barry Brakey, co-founder of Pinnacle Property, Mitchell Stack, previous Australian country head at Western Asset Management, and Steve Byron, former private equity portfolio manager of NZ Super.

Future Fund to become top insto

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
... State Street, CFS GAM and QIC as its debut investment managers, but there's more to come as the fund strives to become the country's "leading institutional investor". Speaking at the 2008 Asset Allocation Summit in Sydney this morning, David Neal, the ...

Lifeplan appoints new solutions manager

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... "specialist technical knowledge and training to our growing business development team and financial planning groups across the country." "We also needed to meet a spike in demand for technical assistance and training for a newly launched tax-advantaged ...

FPA takes it to the grassroots

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has established the Future Financial Planners Council, made up of the country's key industry players, to raise awareness of the profession among university students. The Council will design marketing material ...

Future Fund on the defense

... However, the portfolio is "defensively positioned" with 74.8 per cent or $37.85 billion in cash - the same size as the country's largest super fund, State Super NSW. Besides the $51 billion treasure chest, the fund also holds 2.05 billion Telstra shares ...