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No roadblocks to success: Cormann

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... government would also go out of its way to implement favourable tax policies that would enable Australia to become a world-class financial hub. The increase in mandatory superannuation contributions that Shorten heralded yesterday - while strongly opposed ...

A question of survival

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
... industry, James said that the sector needs strong leadership, because most clients have lost faith. "We have to be the best-in-class, and competence is going to be key in driving what we do." Having capabilities across the entire value chain is no longer ...

Alternatives need new thinking: QIC

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 3 AUG 2012
Too many investors have been trying to "have their cake and eat it too" by attempting to use alternatives to chase higher returns and gain diversification in down markets, according to one manager. "The more you're going for those juicy returns, the ...

Benchmarks stop us thinking: AXA IM

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
... "staple" of cheap beta. "It always worries me that investors think that they have to make allocations to every single asset class," he said. "You need that staple that I would call the cheap beta, but after that you don't need every ingredient to make ...

Pengana delivers AEq returns out of the market

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 31 JUL 2012
It is unorthodox for an equity fund to not be fully deployed into the asset class it is benchmarked against, but the Pengana Australian equity fund has used this approach to significantly out-perform. "If we cannot find such opportunities, then the ...

Julius Baer, BOC in private wealth JV

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUL 2012
... Julius Baer has announced a strategic partnership with the Bank of China in an aim to secure better access to Asia's growing class of ultra rich. As part of the deal, the Bank of China (BOC) has sold its Swiss unit to Julius Baer and will refer clients ...

Tyndall AM restructures distribution

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
Tyndall AM has restructured its distribution and product development functions to increase focus on the institutional and intermediary markets, including creation of a private wealth business. As part of the change Matt Russell, previously head of institutional ...

Lucky in so many ways

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUL 2012
We all know the drill. Once Europe's back in the headlines, markets suffer a case of the jitters. When they do, they begin hoping that a QE fix would soon be in the offing. Homer (the cartoon, not the Greek epic poet and author of the Iliad and the ...

AIMA helping super funds plan HF moves

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JUL 2012
... internal investment teams, Ivey said, with the Future Fund clearly leading the way in alternatives with a 30% allocation to the class and just 11% in Australian equities. Speaking on the GlobeOp data, Ivey said that the June quarter is typically a time ...

Chinese pension fund awards global mandates

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 19 JUL 2012
China's national pension fund has released a list of 12 global investment managers awarded mandates in July to help manage the 869bn yuan ($A132bn) fund. China's National Social Security Fund (NSSF) announced the appointments yesterday, which included ...