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QIC cuts WestLB Mellon

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 FEB 2007
... long-short products in the Australian equities multi-manager portfolio provides our clients with a more efficient capture of active return." AXA Rosenberg is an AXA Investment Managers Company subsidiary and was founded in 1985 by Dr Barr Rosenberg. ...

Super hype is working: AXA

... AXA's general manager in sales and marketing. Behavioural scientist and social expert Dr Stephen Juan said the more pro-active attitude towards savings is part of a broader trend. "There's a feeling of anxiousness...to combat this uncertainty, Australians ...

BT setting a new course in alternatives

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 6 FEB 2007
... equities, Australian fixed interest and cash allocations. Brentnall explained that the AQR allocation is comprised of a pure active absolute return component as well as a global risk premia focus. The absolute return allocation is expected to run at ...

Go green, go dim

Switch off your electricity and save the world was the message from over 60 major finance companies that signed up to an initiative to cut Sydney's greenhouse gas emissions. It sounds like a scene from a sci-fi movie but on 31 March the Sydney building ...

MIA predicts property slump by 2010

... Challenger, Legg Mason, Perpetual, Principal, Perennial, RREEF and SG Hiscock participated in MIA's sector review into active property securities funds. "It's got that smell of 1986 at the moment. I'm not just talking about property but the other markets ...

BGI welcomes fixed income chief

... management consulting business. In his new position, he will manage both BGIA's existing fixed income strategies and the active fixed income business, including the launch of new globally managed, long-short fixed income strategies this year. "Globally ...

Online banking gets token fix

The Commonwealth Bank of Australia (CBA) has begun sending out free 'security tokens' to 30,000 of its highly active NetBank customers. In an attempt to provide greater security for NetBank users, the tokens form part of the bank's two-factor authentication ...

A whole new world of indexes: Russell

Russell Investment Group has launched a family of global stock indexes designed to adopt to the changing investment landscape where the line between "emerging" and "developed markets" continue to blur. The indexes are modeled after the group's popular ...

Private equity spree hurting managers: Suncorp

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JAN 2007
The spate of private equity activity is making life hard for active fund managers, with index funds outperforming many Australian equities funds thanks to the soaring valuations of unloved stocks on the back of buyout speculation. According to Denis ...

Energy field nationalism to impact investors

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
... Australian companies have not been much affected by resource nationalism. But with many junior and major Australian companies active in the Middle East and North Africa, this is set to change," said Donnelly.