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KiwiSaver appoints default providers

AMP, AXA New Zealand, ING (NZ), TOWER, Mercer Human Resource Consulting and ASB Group have been named the six default providers ready to accept members under New Zealand's KiwiSaver scheme to launch in July next year. Finance Minister Michael Cullen ...

Access all asset classes: Vanguard

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 4 DEC 2006
... going to get exposure to it from a well diversified index fund," Duffield said, adding that the extra cost of engaging an active manager could likely cancel out any possibly alpha as well as leaving the ordinary investor with tax management issues. "If ...

Up and down the fee chain: Mercer

... asset class, with median fees for a $100 million mandate at 0.88 per cent or 88 bps. In contrast, fees for traditional active fixed income are around 25 bps, and even lower for government products. Index-based fixed income strategies are in the 15 bps ...

Wealth managers will have difficulty with AML

WWW.THESHEET.COM.AU  |  FRIDAY, 1 DEC 2006
... it will be exploited by a money launderer. Any product that is a long-term investment, with long-term benefits and very active involvement from external agencies such as the tax office is not going to be attractive to a criminal. "Wealth management companies ...

Active extension moves into Australia

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
Investors looking to boost alpha while still constraining risk are looking to active extension investing. Active extension investing is when a portfolio manager operates their fund according to a fixed ratio of long versus short investing and where ...

Multiple super accounts wasting billions in fees: CHOICE

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 24 NOV 2006
... industry. However, while the superannuation industry has been aware of the problem for years, it has only recently begun taking active steps to practically address it and has even drawn the ire of Treasurer Peter Costello who has threatened legislative ...

Diversify out of Aust equities: van Eyk

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 21 NOV 2006
... Dr Lander said that while it would be harder to find managers who could differentiate themselves from the pack, a good active manager offered genuine diversification benefits. "Good active strategies have the potential to help diversify equity market ...

Russell Select scores $400m mandate

It's alpha-hunting in bulk after super fund Unisuper filled the entire institutional capacity of investment manager Russell's Select Holdings fund with a $400 million investment mandate. Select Holdings is a global investment product that Russell recently ...

The manager matters in private equity: Unigestion

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 10 NOV 2006
... at Unigestion, a privately owned asset management firm that focuses exclusively on the management of innovative highly active strategies including private equity and hedge fund of funds and specialist equity strategies, said Australian investors were ...

Schroders casts net outside MSCI World

Financial advisers looking for a global equities fund with a twist should look no further than Schroders Global Active Value, a fund that invests in shares outside the traditional global benchmark MSCI World Index. Schroders chief executive, Greg Cooper ...