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MLC adds three managers to new strategy

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 OCT 2012
... low-correlation strategy to its Horizon Series of portfolios and Long-Term Absolute Return Portfolio (MLC LTAR.) The strategy is a fund of hedge funds and will be managed by the firm's alternative strategies team. The new managers in the strategy include ...

Standard Risk Measure misleading

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... methodologies to calculate the SRM," Ramsay said. As an example, Ramsay said "fund provider A gave an SRM for its bond fund of 3-4, while fund provider B gave its bond fund an SRM of 1-2, despite both funds having similar benchmarks and performance objectives. ...

Govt to pay interest on lost Super funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
The government has taken steps to ease the corrosive impact of fees and inflation on funds left in forgotten super accounts with new measures announced in its mid-year Budget update. The government has raised the threshold below which funds in inactive ...

Core Data: Super members crave quality dialogue

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 19 OCT 2012
Over half of superannuation industry's members are currently disengaged, with many claiming that better quality communication from their fund would help foster a closer relationship, according to new Core Data research. CoreData's Member Engagement ...

BlackRock earns double honours at hedge fund awards

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... double honours at the annual Cure Our Kids Australian Hedge Fund Awards last night, winning awards for Australian hedge fund of the year, and best market neutral fund. The wholesale fund delivered 22.49% p.a. annualised gross of fees over two years to ...

Sunsuper expands nationally

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 AUG 2012
... competitive market, the campaign has been designed to position Sunsuper outside the pack with a particular focus on its Fund of the Year 2012 awards and other differentiating factors."

Unique investment opportunity in water

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 10 AUG 2012
... Olam International (a Singaporean food company) and Hassad Foods (the agricultural investment arm of the sovereign wealth fund of Qatar). The investment of the Chinese-owned Shenhua Coal in NSW's Hunter Valley will also come with an attendant need to ...

Improve risk management to target fees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 JUL 2012
... an increasing realisation of the high beta component of the returns," said O'Connor. Responding to this, some of these fund of hedge funds are trying to better implement their market neutral strategies and "make sure that it diversifies and provides ...

Cross-border super collaboration on way

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
... experience and methods of other countries," said Gesheng Yu, vice chairman of the National Council for the Social Security Fund of China. "We are willing to strengthen exchange and cooperation with pension fund colleagues all over the world," Yu said ...

ASIC bans unlicensed Sydney adviser

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUL 2012
Australian Securities & Investments Commission has permanently banned Sydney based adviser Ropati Broederlow after it found he acted dishonestly and made false and misleading statements in relation to financial products. Broederlow was also operating ...