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OptiMix appoints new managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
... Management. CrA(C)dit Agricole achieves alpha by utilising longer dated options to extract implied volatility. INGIM is an active enhanced cash investment manager, combining the analysis of economic fundamentals, market psychology and market valuations ...

Investors eager for more bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 30 JUL 2009
... data compiled by dealReporter. Hong-Kong listed, China-based companies as well as Indian companies are expected to take an active part in some of the new issuances. However, whether or not this potential issuance pipeline is triggered hinges on the issuers' ...

UK pension and fundies to drive long-termism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
... when the operational or business risks started to emerge. Worse, history suggests that institutions have not been as pro-active as they could have been questioning the policies of UK bank board executives. "The limited institutional efforts at engagement ...

RBC Dexia wins HSBC mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2009
... wholesale platforms in Australia. HSBC Global Investments offers products from HSBC Global Asset Management, including Halbis (active management specialist) and Sinopia (quantitative specialist), as well as HSBC Alternative Investments Limited (HSBC's ...

Trust launches strategy review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
Trust chief executive and managing director, John Atkin, and a number of other executives at the firm have launched a strategic review of the business. The review was announced Bruce Corlett, chair at Trust, yesterday at the company's annual general ...

HESTA ready for advice boom

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2009
... the fund. "HESTA's limited personal advice service is free. The new legislation will enable more members to take a more active role in their superannuation, including retirement planning and insurance," said Anne-Marie Corboy, chief executive of HESTA. ...

Instos allocate $980m to catastrophe bonds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
Bermuda-based Nephila Capital, which counts AMP and MLC as clients, has raised $980 million in the second quarter of this year from institutional investors targeting catastrophe reinsurance funds. Greg Hagood, the fund's co-founder, said pension funds ...

REST to allocate more active Aussie eq mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Active Aussie equities managers will continue to win mandates with the $14 billion REST Super as the fund said it was sticking with its active manager core, despite several other big industry funds allocating bigger mandates to passive managers. Damian ...

Shareholder activism misses the mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... know? That's a big call." Ralph also predicts this push from super or pension funds on investment managers to become more active shareholders, will soon turn 360 degrees. "Investment managers are now saying that if you want better governance then guess ...

RBNZ could go zero

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... reduction in interest rates - done late -- would not quickly turn negative momentum around. Contrast this with the RBA's pro-active approach. It started cutting rates in September last year - three months before real GDP posted negative growth in the ...