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Bond index returns beat active managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
Financial planners should rethink how they invest in Australian bonds after research found active managers underperformed the benchmark more than 94 per cent of the time over three and five years. The Vanguard study, which drew research from Standard ...

Rev mortgage market continues to grow

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
Australia's reverse mortgage market has grown five per cent in the six months to June with total outstanding funding representing $2.6 billion but the number of new borrowers has declined, a study found. The Deloitte SEQUAL Reverse Mortgage Study found ...

GMO and Lazard win combined $1.4bn in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
... overhaul. Multi-manager ipac is rehashing its $4 billion Australian equities portfolio with new 'tailored mandates' that allow active managers to tap mid to small cap stocks as value adds to the firm's strategy. For instance, around 60 per cent of Lazard ...

D'Aloisio nominated Joint Forum chair

COMPANY RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2009
... said this nomination is recognition of Australia's constructive role in global financial crisis. "Australia has been an active voice in the global economic community that has recently seen G-20 - of which Australia is a member - become the pre-eminent ...

PE secondaries could be ticking time bomb

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
Investors should be wary of the overexuberance in the secondary private equity markets as it could mirror the mega buyout bubble of 2007, according to new Watson Wyatt research. A new paper from Watson Wyatt noted that an anticipated supply-demand imbalance ...

Count: 13 times lucky

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 OCT 2009
... based in Canberra. As of June 2009, the business was an outsourced provider of administration services to more than 620 active IT&C contractors. According to the ASX statement, Achieve Corporation reports a revenue of $3.1 million per annum, and has ...

HSBC unveils EM equity fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... growing economies in Asia, Russia, Eastern Europe, South Africa and Latin America. Managed by HSBC Global Asset Management's active management specialist, Halbis Capital Management, the fund provides exposure to a diversified portfolio of equity and ...

More room to slash super fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 29 SEP 2009
... Monaghan said that Australian funds, as a whole, charge more because they allocate more towards growth-orientated assets and active management versus their Nordic counterparts, which largely invests in fixed income assets. But the larger fees come with ...

CFA appoints Gunasingham as president

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
CFA Society of Sydney (CFAS) has elected Brindha Gunasingham, CFA to the role of president of the board. Gunasingham's term begins immediately. She will succeed Olivia Engel, CFA who served as president since August 2007. CFAS has also announced Richard ...

BlackRock tops multi-sector review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... portable alpha strategies that allow the manager to source investment strategies and teams worldwide while diversifying the active risk. Sheela Veerappan, analyst at Standard & Poor's Fund Services, said BlackRock is one of the few managers to consistently ...