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BT scores $100m Mercer mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 28 SEP 2006
... Investments has awarded BT Financial Group a $100 million Australian equities mandate. The money is to be managed in an active, concentrated Australian equities portfolio and Martin Franc, BT head of sales, said the Mercer mandate is recognition of the ...

Australians clueless on super

... they know about their super account and fees. The study revealed that many Australians are no more educated nor more pro-active about what is happening with their super a year after the 'super choice' rules were introduced. About 70 per cent said they ...

Mellon scores $10m global alpha mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 18 SEP 2006
... and aims to outperform the Australian cash rate by 15 per cent per annum over the medium to long term with an expected active risk rate of around 15 per cent per annum. James Gruver, managing director of Mellon Global Investments Australia, said they ...

There's room for more alpha: T. Rowe Price

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 15 SEP 2006
Despite making money for investors the world over for nearly 70 years, US based T. Rowe Price has avoided the Australian market, until now. But with the red-hot global run that most Aussie equities managers have ridden to record returns now cooling ...

Improve returns by picking losers: Triguboff

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 SEP 2006
... management, it can be a little bit lazy." This translated into a smaller investable universe, Triguboff said, which meant an active manager's opportunities for finding alpha were being stifled. However, in order to ratchet down factor risk, quantitative ...

Financial Wisdom strikes up another Alliance

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 8 SEP 2006
... clients' and provide new channels for both organizations to generate new business," said Barrett Financial Wisdom has been active in seeking new opportunities and channels for the provision of quality advice and, through partnering relationships and ...

It's Perennial all over again: Macoun

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
... manager, Plato Investment Management, run by former State Street Global Advisors head of Australian equities and head of active equities Asia Pacific, Don Hamson. Under the deal Macoun together with Wilson HTM, part owner of Hyperion Asset Management ...

FOHF giving way to single manager multi-strategy funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... of absolute return strategies such as capital structure arbitrage, event-driven and global macro strategies, along with active equity market neutral, fixed income, currency, commodity and emerging market strategies. "When properly run by a large, global ...

Two key roles filled for ipac

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 5 SEP 2006
... important to ensure ongoing product innovation. Jeff is well equipped to meet the challenge of uncovering new sources of active return. This focus will be essential to continue to deliver competitive performance," Gupta said.

NZ Super Fund scores big but cautions on the future

... market volatility. It said it will aim to protect fund earnings through continuing diversification and finding capable active managers. It may well start re-evaluating its emerging markets equities sector allocation as 2005-06 figures show that the 'value ...