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PROFILE: Standard Life Investments head of Australasian business Simone Bouch

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 1 AUG 2016
... global fund manager, Standard Life Investments' Simone Bouch knows a thing or two about the importance of investment performance. But if she'd followed through on her childhood ambition the focus would be performance of a somewhat more dramatic bent. ...

Henderson insto flows turn positive

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2016
... a positive pipeline. Across our retail product range since the end of June, outflows have moderated and investment performance has improved," Formica said. Henderson recorded a 3% growth in assets under management to 30 June 2016, now standing at £95 ...

Sustainable office trust attracts major new investor

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... joined the Clean Energy Finance Corporation (CEFC) to drive Australia's commercial property sector towards a higher-performance future. UFS, the Treasury and Investment Services arm of the Uniting Church in Australia Synod of NSW and the ACT, has committed ...

Super platform goes for gold

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2016
... The partnership was announced at an ABC Bullion event in Sydney on Tuesday and is timely given gold's recent market performance and precious metals reportedly entering a new bull market. ABC Bullion chief economist Jordan Eliseo said clients who have ...

Advisers need to leverage enormous ETF winds

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2016
... flowed in to ETFs and about $0.5 trillion flowed in to alpha products. Why is it relevant to us? A part of this is that performance is a challenge. People have to be very thoughtful about where they look for performance and what they pay," Howie said ...

AMP Capital hits back at second LIM wind-up letter

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... despite underperformance. The LIM letter explained: "Over its lifetime, AGF has underperformed its benchmark, and no performance fee has been paid. In 2015, there was a spectacular bull market followed by a crash in the Chinese A share market. AMP simply ...

Economic Wrap

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2016
... tally on record. Event Driven (ED) hedge funds led the way in capital increases in the quarter, the researcher said. Performance-based gains drove the sub-segment to A$990 billion being about one quarter of the whole hedge fund market. Industry researcher ...

Absolute returns no longer the domain of instos

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... Morningstar in its 2016 multi-asset sector review, which recognised the fund for its long track record of consistent performance derived from a straightforward approach to multi-asset investing. The long-only fund invests in high-quality global equities ...

WAM finds returns in growth companies

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... process, which has provided shareholders with sound risk-adjusted returns since inception in 1999. The investment performance of 21.6% was achieved while holding an average cash weighting of 35%," Wilson said. Wilson Asset Management (WAM) chief investment ...

Bond investors must relax benchmark constraints

KERRIE SYDEE  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2016
... adjust before their full impacts hit. "For Australian investors, we think the local bond market is the most appropriate performance gauge, even for globally diversified portfolios. There are a few reasons for this - firstly, the Australian bond market ...