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Legg Mason shuts down defensive trust

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... proceeds to the unitholder. Meanwhile, the Legg Mason Small Companies Trust, which has $73 million invested from retail and insto investors was recently rated "investment grade" by ratings house Lonsec. Legg Mason said the 'Investment Grade' rating follows ...

Instos pump $700bn into Islamic finance

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
The Islamic finance market has grown by as much as 20 per cent each year for the past six years and is now a $700 billion plus industry, according to State Street. The firm's latest Vision Report on the subject estimated that total assets under management ...

TAAM strategy scores mandate boost

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... firm has received mandate top ups from three existing large instos, including one from Australia. "Three of our existing insto clients have significantly increased their exposure [to Asian equities]," confirmed Sartori. Sartori said the reasons for the ...

Liongate snags $1 billion in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
... Liongate has bucked the trend to report more than $1 billion in inflows since the first quarter of last year from global insto investors including pension funds and insurance companies. Last month alone, the fund manager received mandates from pension ...

Fee disclosure for intermediaries: CalPERS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
The $230 billion CalPERS is forging ahead with its investment transparency overhaul when it proposed a new policy for the disclosure of "placement agents" brokering new business and fees paid to them. A key committee of the California Public Employees' ...

Instos search for cash alternatives

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 11 MAY 2009
Corporate investors and government bodies are assessing alternatives to holding funds in government guaranteed deposits as cash rates fall and the $1 million fee eats away at returns. Subash Pillai, executive director and head of cash and fixed interest ...

Instos hold the ace in direct property

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
Institutional investors are gaining the upper hand in securing the best direct property deals as the "government guarantee" chokes retail fund inflows into the $60 billion direct property market. Nearly half of 100 direct property fund managers said ...

Passive managers win insto favour

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 APR 2009
State Street Global Advisors is experiencing an influx of passive style investment mandates as Aussie instos continue favouring passive managers. Robert Goodlad, senior managing director of State Street Global Advisors Australia, said State Street had ...

Mutual funds outperform instos

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 24 APR 2009
Mutual funds are beating their institutional counterparts with the former reporting almost 30 per cent less outflows during last year. According Callan Associates, institutional asset losses were "extensive" across 17 traditional equity and fixed income ...

Global property revival

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 2 APR 2009
... as property price corrections start to fall in place. Now the ball is in the investor court - it's up to both retail and insto investors to take further steps in cashing in on the discounts. "There's opportunity for value everywhere. The issue we're ...