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AUI signs up fixed income veteran

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... investors will move into securities such as fixed income as markets improve. We expect fixed income to be the biggest asset class in years to come," said Bryant. Bovingdon, who left Aberdeen in 2009, taking time out to travel with his family, is joined ...

Rise of 'climate sensitive' asset allocation: Mercer

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
Superannuation funds are being encouraged to embrace the investment opportunities brought on by climate change by investing in so called 'climate sensitive assets'. Climate change could account for 10 per cent of investment portfolio risk over the next ...

ASX marks a decade of local ETFs

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) is set to host its first Australian exchange traded fund (ETF) conference in Sydney in June this year, ten years on since the first ETF was traded in Australia and at a time when the sector is enjoying explosive ...

Diamond Asset Advisors arrive in Aus

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
It's an asset class that is worth more 'in the rough' and local investors can get their hands on it through a Zurich-based firm with links to famous jeweler Harry Winston, which visited Melbourne last month to scope the local market. Diamond Asset Advisors ...

CBA wealth arm boosts profits

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 FEB 2011
... management and has been looking to global trends including population growth, demand for biofuels and the emerging 'middle class' to make a return for investors CBA said that life insurance subsidiary CommInsure will continue to focus on streamlining ...

Macq gives update on US arm

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 8 FEB 2011
Homegrown fund manager, Macquarie Funds Group, now among the largest Australian-based asset managers after it bought US-based fund manager Delaware in January last year, gives an optimistic update on its overall wealth management business. According ...

AdviserLogic teams with Class Super

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... Financial advisory software provider AdviserLogic has agreed to integrate with online SMSF administration platform operator Class Super. The tie-up will enable AdviserLogic to provide users with automated data feeds, significantly increasing their efficiency ...

Large funds use scale to boost after-tax savings

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 FEB 2011
... portfolio. The research, compiled by Ross Barry, head of portfolio construction and diversity and Jeff Chee, head of asset class research at Towers Watson, assessed the future of propagation for asset class level strategies. Propagation is a sophisticated ...

APRA releases 2010 fund level returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
APRA has released its 2010 fund level data league tables, showing that measured by the controversial 'whole of fund' metric that Australia's top funds are the corporate funds Goldman Sachs, CommBank Officers and Worsely Alumina. Sitting in fourth, fifth ...

AustralianSuper posts solid quarter

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 1 FEB 2011
AustralianSuper has posted a solid set of performance numbers across its investment options in the past six months, with all of the fund's pre-mixed options, bar one, beating their respective benchmarks. The super fund has posted its investment returns ...