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Fixed income reinvented: Lehman

... noticed that we have diversified away from the G4...we're also looking forward to the inclusion of China and India to our mainstream indices hopefully by 2015 or several years before then." Michelle Baltazar

Advisers waiting for better SMAs: survey

... separately managed accounts (SMA) providers have to offer more products and more features before SMAs could become mainstream, according to an Investment Trends survey. Research firm Investment Trends has finished the first part of a dual survey on SMAs ...

Time to look at Gen Xers

... a Gen Xer. Pape, the 28 year old author of best selling book The Barefoot Investor, also writes a regular column in mainstream newspapers where he gets hundreds of emails from his peers about the ins and outs of investing. Many complain about the lack ...

DeAM sets sights firmly on alternatives

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2007
... good fit and timely... while we have seen good organic growth in specialist funds, we realise that to be an effective mainstream manager we have to have more of a local product manufacturing capability, which is what we now gain," added Aberdeen's chief ...

CMC hires ex-AMP FP head

... now beginning to gain traction. "The use of leveraged products in the retail consumer market itself is becoming more mainstream. We just saw margin lending come from nowhere to a product that is widely used these days," said Nic Blakemore, the group's ...

Charles River key IT for Islamic funds

... increasing their reliance on these tools to create and manage funds that comply with stated guidelines and compete with mainstream products," said Cameron Field, Charles River Development's managing director for the Asia-Pacific region. Michelle Balt ...

Aviva to sponsor World Solar Race

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 12 MAR 2007
The drive of wealth managers into the mainstream and out of the shackles of traditional financial arenas is continuing with Aviva announcing its sponsorship of the 2007 Panasonic World Solar Challenge race. Allan Griffiths, chief executive officer of ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2007
... over the last year. This data shows that the three interest rate hikes of last year have significantly affected the mainstream housing market and that consumers have been re-directing spending into the private sector other dwelling market which includes ...

Alternative goes mainstream as long-only dies

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2007
The move to more sophisticated investment strategies and the wide adoption of so-called alternative strategies as standard fare will result in the continued decline of traditional low-risk long-only mandates, according to investment consultants Watson ...

More data leakage and spam in 2007

... data is traveling outside the enterprise, usually via unsecured methods. As a result, desktop encryption will become a mainstream defense mechanism and content security will become more sophisticated to address this shift toward data protection, monitoring ...