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BNP Paribas adds global manager to range

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... Investment Partners' existing local investment solutions offering, which includes Arnhem Investment Management (Australian equities), Antin Infrastructure Partners (European infrastructure), Carnegie Asset Management (global growth equity), FFTW (fixed ...

Getting ideas across to SMSFs the first battle: AMP

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUN 2014
... to. You just can't get them in a forum the way that you can through your other networks." While SMSFs invest heavily in equities, other asset classes such as fixed income and alternatives lose out to cash - an asset class which is easy to understand ...

Super insurance still worth billions

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 12 JUN 2014
... also provided a breakdown of asset allocation. $138 billion was in non-cash investments, $102 billion of which was in equities, $27 billion was in debt securities, and $10 billion was in property. $9.2 billion was in cash.

Investors find opportunity in SMSF conservative approach

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... 16.1% of the Australian equity market, either directly or indirectly. Of the $547 billion in SMSFs, $241 billion is in equities, an allocation that has increased by 110 basis points over the past 12 months and now stands at 43.1% of the total SMSF pool ...

Finding alpha in ESG

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... and VicSuper in 2009, the association has grown. To date, more than 50 institutions managing $100 billion in Australian equities, have signed in as members to show their support. And while the spotlight this week was on Citi - deservedly so - there was ...

Market wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... rolled out key changes to interest rates and other anti-deflation measures which lifted the euro, US Treasuries, and equities. This has helped give Australian equities a boost on Friday morning, IG Markets market strategist Stan Shamu said. "The main ...

Beware high correlations: AQR

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... strategies David Kabiller. The former Goldman Sachs executive said that traditional asset classes including fixed income, equities and property, although viewed by the industry as distinct from one another, were actually all a bet on the same outcome. ...

Investors return to active global equities managers

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
Active managers in the global equities space are back in favour following an extended period of outflows, according to Fidelity portfolio manager Amit Lodha. Between 2008 and 2012, active global equity funds saw net outflows of US$825 billion (A$870 ...

Everything but the kitchen sink

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... all those ABS's that the ECB telegraphed it would be buying. And what do you need to buy European ABS's - and European equities that would be goosed by that extra liquidity -- why the euro, of course. Targeting the euro would have been a simpler and ...

PROFILE: Invesco CEO Martin Franc

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... terms of my career prospects and it was an easy decision," Franc remembers. He landed a job working on the international equities dealing desk at BT (then Bankers' Trust) back in the days when the firm was managing all the active money for its global ...