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Irish future fund puts faith in passive investing

... billion ((a,-3 billion) passive equity mandate to Bank of Ireland Asset Management Limited (BIAM) and State Street Global Advisors (SSgA). BIAM will provide the asset allocation, sales, marketing and ongoing client service for the fund while SSgA will ...

New global head of currency for SSgA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has appointed a new global head of currency management. Collin Crownover leaves his role as head of the investor risk advisory team with Citigroup New York and London to head up SSgA's currency management group. He ...

SSgA launches global index fund with value bias

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2006
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has announced the launch of a new global passive fund that combines some of the core qualities of value investing with the benefits of passive index style investment management. The SSgA Wealth Weighted Global Equities ...

It's Perennial all over again: Macoun

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
... will start with a new quantitative boutique fund manager, Plato Investment Management, run by former State Street Global Advisors head of Australian equities and head of active equities Asia Pacific, Don Hamson. Under the deal Macoun together with Wilson ...

FOHF giving way to single manager multi-strategy funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... more likely to add value. Jane Tisdale, senior managing director of absolute return strategies at State Street Global Advisors, said, "As hedge fund returns have retreated from their peak over the last decade, the double fees funds of funds charge for ...

UniSuper revises major mandates

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 31 AUG 2006
... prefer to take our risks elsewhere." UniSuper also announced it would be a $255m seed investor with State Street Global Advisors' Global Alpha Plus Fund, a 130/30 long/short global fund. UniSuper is yet to finalise the appointment of a concentrated growth ...

SSgA launches neutral Asian alpha fund

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 21 AUG 2006
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has launched its new SSgA Asia Pacific Equity Market Neutral Fund, aimed at giving institutional investors easy access to pure alpha returns from Asian equity markets. The strategy, designed by SSgA's quantitative ...

PIMCO announces new vice president

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 AUG 2006
... chairman of Zurich's Finium Super Master Plan Investment Committee. Dorrian has also held roles with State Street Global Advisors, Rothschild Asset Management and BT Funds Management. Dorrian will be responsible for overseeing new business and client ...

SSgA raises bar on absolute returns

State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) in the US is beefing up its 'absolute return strategies' with a new quant tool and three high profile hirings. Jonathan Chanis, Henri Fouda, and Todor Georgiev from Caxton Associates, Mellon Capital Management and ...

More control over currency: SSgA

... Super funds unsure of whether they should hedge or not hedge can get the best of both worlds through State Street Global Advisors' (SSgA) newly launched hedging product. Called the Dynamic Strategic Hedging program, SSgA said it offers a 'middle ground' ...