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AUSCOAL appoints $140m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 FEB 2009
... international equities portfolio stood at $786 million at the end of Decfember last year. The portfolio is 50 per cent hedged against currency movements. "LSV's investment philosophy is a combination of value, contrarian and momentum factors which will ...

Vanguard launches gov bond fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... "The Vanguard Australian Government Bond Index Fund together with the Vanguard International Fixed Interest Index Fund (Hedged) will allow investors access to a highly diversified, global portfolio of fixed interest securities that are backed by Government ...

BTIM remodels AQR mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... spokesperson confirmed AQR is an underlying fund manager across the BT Wholesale Core Global Share Fund, Wholesale Core Hedged Global Share fund and Wholesale International Share fund. The fund manager also features across a number of the institution's ...

FirstChoice platform upgrade

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 13 NOV 2008
... the FirstChoice platform. Funds include the Realindex RAFI Australian Share, Australian Small Companies, Global Shares Hedged, and Global Shares funds. These funds use an index strategy that reflects a company's economic footprint using size measurements ...

Chile not so hot on fixed income

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 OCT 2008
... strategies. They invested more in Chile and less overseas, shifted more cash into fixed income over equities and aggressively hedged their investments to potential currency fluctuations. Chile's AFP system was introduced in 1981 to help people set aside ...

CSAM opens commodity fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... up since 2006, it will be attractive." The fund seeks to outperform the S&P GSCI Commodity Total Return Index which is hedged into Australian dollars and buys futures to gain commodity exposure. "Using a futures-based strategy gives us the flexibility ...

Nestle shuffles asset allocations

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... changes were a 2 per cent increase in Aussie equity to 15 per cent, a new 3 per cent allocation to international property ($A hedged), a five per cent cut in Aussie fixed interest, and zero in cash from a previous 10 per cent. The fund also axed its ...

Instos pour $370m into Apostle fund

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 9 SEP 2008
... Sayles & Company last November to manage a diversified portfolio of bank loans in an Australian-based vehicle on a fully hedged basis. This, combined with its stand-alone fund status, daily unit pricing and fortnightly liquidity, number among the reasons ...

BNP Paribas responds to alpha demand

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUL 2008
... accumulation." MFS Investment Partners already provides four funds to Australian and New Zealand investors including the Fully Hedged Global Equity Trust, Global Growth Trust and the Global Equity Trust. BNP Paribas Investment Partners has been distributing ...

Schroders launches geared global fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 30 JUN 2008
... product was one of the highest dividend yielding global equity funds in the market. "The Schroder Global Active Value fund (hedged) is ideally suited to gearing not only because its yield can support borrowing cost, but also because it is highly diversified ...