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NAB appoints Antares GM

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2015
NAB Asset Management has appointed a new general manager for Antares Equities. Brendan Donohoe has taken on the role having worked at Antares as head of institutional sales since 2012. Prior to that, he was a divisional director at JANA Investment Advisers. ...

The $17trn infra opportunity investors have overlooked

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... assets without compromising their environmental, social and governance criteria should consider an investment in water equities. That's the opinion of Kleinwort Benson Investors, a fund manager with a 14 year history investing in the asset class. With ...

FEATURE: Managed accounts - more than meets the eye

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... in any asset class. "Every client who has a managed account is also exposed in that same asset class, being Australian equities typically, through unit trusts as well. And that's because we feel our clients are lucky to get exposure to those particular ...

Super funds need to compete globally

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 4 SEP 2015
... Australian companies there is a very high barrier for that growth strategy." She said the strong home country bias towards equities was not helped by a concentrated market and a part of members' contributions will always likely end up in the "big four ...

Tempo gets Lonsec rating

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... active investment strategy that aims to outperform the MSCI World over the long term. Tempo builds better beta in global equities through its equally weighted multi-factor approach to portfolio construction.

Perpetual wins RE mandate with seven funds

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... entity services for seven funds. In the past three months, Perpetual has won mandates with Dalton Nicol Reid's Australian Equities High Conviction Fund, Aviva Investors' Multi-Strategy Target Return Fund, AQR Style Premia Trust, Harding Loevner Emerging ...

Sigma wins industry fund equities mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
Boutique firm Sigma Funds Management has won an Australian equities mandate from a Sydney-based industry superannuation fund. The mandate goes to Sigma's Select strategy, a high conviction broad cap value strategy that has outperformed the S&P/ASX300 ...

Investing is like a game of tennis

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... it. It was a very static approach. "That evolved into target date funds where money was essentially transferred from equities to bonds as an individual approaches retirement." Lifecycle funds then moved to hybrid target date funds whereby one part of ...

Cash is king at the Future Fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2015
... largest allocation in the $117.2 billion portfolio. At the same time, the sovereign fund has reduced its exposure to global equities in developed markets -which constituted the largest share in the portfolio last year- from 23.1% to 17.5%. Future Fund ...

Macquarie exec leaves to join boutique fund manager

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2015
... NWQ is a boutique investment firm that manages the Fiduciary Fund, a multi asset fund with exposure to fixed income, equities and property. The firm was founded by managing partner Jonathan Horton, who has over 25 years' experience in the industry and ...