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Wealth of opportunities for Aussie asset managers overseas

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
Industry Funds Management (IFM) chief executive Brett Himbury has urged Australian investment managers to take advantage of the huge opportunity of taking their expertise overseas. Addressing delegates at the annual Financial Standard Sales & Marketing ...

Infrastructure offers income low correlation to other assets

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 MAY 2013
... George Vassos. Vassos explained that a institutional and retail investors alike are increasingly allocations to the asset class with areas such as regulated utilities, toll roads and water, as well as transmission and distribution, offering stable income ...

GSAM builds third party distribution team

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
Goldman Sachs Asset Management (GSAM) has expanded its third party distribution team with the appointment of former Waratah's rugby player Ben Daly as key account manager for New South Wales and Queensland. This follows the appointment of Jessica Jones ...

FFMA is on track to break $100bn barrier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
The Future Fund Management Agency (FFMA) is on track to break through the $100 billion barrier after having climbed to $97 billion by end March 2013. The FFMA is the public sector agency that looks after the $85 billion Future Fund, as well as $12 billion ...

Neuberger Berman adds EM debt capability

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 7 MAY 2013
... he looked forward to embarking on the new project. "As much as people talk about how much money has flowed into the asset class, that's still just the tip of the ice berg," he said. "Most major institutional investors still only have their toe dipped ...

Aussie instos hungry for EM debt assets

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
... returns. While Munro conceded that that level of performance is unlikely in 2013, low yields elsewhere highlight the asset class as an important relative value play. HSBC Global Asset Management added that it had seen a marked pick-up in interest from ...

Warren Buffett praises Fed stimulus measures

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 6 MAY 2013
Legendary investor Warren Buffett praised the US Federal Reserve's monetary stimulus measures at the Berkshire Hathaway annual shareholder meeting in Nebraska. Buffett, who is chairman and chief executive of the global conglomerate, said that the decision ...

Macquarie reports rise in profits

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 3 MAY 2013
Macquarie Group has reported a net profit of $851 million for the full year to the end of March, up 17% on last year. Total assets under management (AUM) were also up to $347 million from $327 million last year. Operating income fell 4% to $6.7 billion ...

ASIC MDA review requires further clarity: IMAP

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 30 APR 2013
... ASIC, is that MDA authorisations recognise functions actually performed by the MDA operator, including the creation of a class licence for MDA operators which permits them to operate the MDA service for retail only clients, who have concurrently become ...

Insto investors bullish on equities: EIU survey

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 26 APR 2013
... investors in Australia and around the world showed that 53% of investors expected stocks to be the strongest performing asset class over the next 12 months. Conversely, 22% of investors rated government bonds as the most likely to increase in risk over ...