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EM managers eye huge super fund opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... Capital uses a fund-of-funds approach and has 80 research teams across 24 emerging market countries. "Only a handful of houses have that local presence and they are closed to new investors," said Feriani. For the fund manager though, the most attractive ...

ESG RA to award best stockbroking research

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... year, valuation impacts and techniques are becoming more refined. It is also clear that the mainstream analysts of broking houses are becoming more comfortable with the identification and quantification of ESG factors," she said. Similar to last year's ...

Fund house publishes full holdings online

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... its website. UK and US funds are required to publish their top-10 holdings every three months but - while some Australian houses choose to disclose their holdings - there is no obligation for them to do so. The financial services industry in Australia ...

Fund stalwarts draw $6bn in Aus equities mandates

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
... to Australian equity managers in the past 12 months, a staggering $5.97 billion has been given to just three investment houses, data from Rainmaker Information can reveal. The three fund managers, which between them accounted for a shade under 60 percent ...

The virtuous cycle is back in play

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 4 MAR 2013
... new cars. Sales of new motor vehicles increased by 3.7% in February after a strong 14% jump in the previous month.... and houses. New home sales up by 15.6% in January; pending home sales up 4.5%. Higher sales send the supply of houses down and prices ...

MFS appoints head of platforms

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 19 FEB 2013
... Cartwright will focus on platform development and sales in Australia and N8ew Zealand in addition to liaising with research houses. His appointment follows the asset manager's decision to bring distribution of its Australian and New Zealand business ...

William Blair ramps up bid to win super fund mandates

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2013
... market by bringing senior investment and distribution executives to Sydney to present to asset consultants and ratings houses. Head of Australia and New Zealand institutional distribution Alex Francois told Financial Standard back in November about the ...

Global fund managers bullish on equities: HSBC

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... stronger prospects in equities and selective fixed income markets," he said. The survey, which polled 10 global investment-houses, also found that 75% of fund managers held overweight views on North American equities in the first quarter 2013, spurred ...

Beggar me not my neighbour

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2013
... jobs, the housing sector is too. Housing starts increased, nay soared, by 28.1% -- the strongest since 1983 -- to 780,000 houses last year from 608,800 in 2011. This comes on the heels of better-than-expected US retail sales, car sales, ISM manufacturing ...

ASIC eyes off researchers

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2012
... reforms. ASIC's new guidance applies to a "broad range" of investment research providers such as analysts and research houses. "In recent times there have been serious concerns about the quality of research issued by research providers, particularly ...