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Most equity investors upping overseas exposure: survey

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
More than half of active Aussie share investors want to increase their exposure to international stocks but are held back by a lack of knowledge and available research, according to a new survey conducted by Skaffold. The equity research company, which ...

Five Oceans CIO steps down

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 MAR 2013
... Watson were natural successors. Tracey has been a senior member of the Five Oceans investment team from its inception, with active portfolio management responsibility within the firm since 2008. Across a 20-year professional career, she has been chief ...

CFS appoints new general manager

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... manager. Previously the managing director of individual customers at Russell Investments from 2009 until 2012, he is an active contributor to the financial services industry working with both the Financial Services Council (FSC) and the Association of ...

Active management a 2% tax drag

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
The high turnover of active managed funds generates tax inefficiencies that can drag portfolios by as much as 2%, according to global asset manager Parametric. Recent legislation requiring superannuation funds have an after-tax investment objective ...

FSC announces winners of insurance awards

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
... professional approach and desire to assist clients and potential clients. Macquarie Life won the Consumer Innovation Award for its Active Body product, an online tool which helps advisers to clearly communicate to their clients the benefits of life and ...

GFC derails wealth fee growth by $30bn

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... opportunity by diversifying away from their existing growth-oriented product suite and into income-oriented products and active-passive strategies. This month fund manager AXA IM launched SmartBeta products, which are alternative solutions to index trackers. ...

Asset allocation shifts as EM turns strategic: MFS

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
Institutional investors are starting to look at the emerging market asset class more of a 'strategic' rather than an 'opportunistic' play, according to a visiting global portfolio manager. Thomas Melendez, Institutional Equity Portfolio Manager - MFS ...

NGS launches 2013 scholarship program

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... scholarships is available to non-government education employee working in a support, management or teaching position who are active members of NGS intending to continue employment in the sector for at least one year following completion of the schola ...

AMP awarded $800m equity mandate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
... Enhanced Index Share fund, which invests in companies listed on the ASX. The strategy combines strong risk controls and active management to invest in a large number of stocks. Active positions are focused predominantly on large capitalisation stocks. ...

SSgA launches low-risk global equity fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Active management is a tough game and picking active managers is just as tough, warns State Street Global Advisers' Lochiel Crafter. The head of investments for the Asia Pacific at SSgA says that investors are often disappointed by the returns generated ...