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Legg Mason $100m mandates add to IOOF value approach

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... Merlicek. The 'Dynamic Value' Australian Equity fund has been developed over the last 12 months by IOOF head of Australian equities Daniel Farmer and Legg Mason Australian equities chief investment officer Reece Birtles. The fund is a 'style-switching' ...

ANZ launches SMSF investment solution

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... created after ANZ realised that most investors are more interested on generating yield rather than capital growth, ANZ Equities and Wealth head of Sales in Australia Irene Deutsch said. The product is appealing for SMSFs because "it is the kind of sophisticated ...

Market Wrap AM

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2013
... the Australian Industry Group/Commonwealth Bank Australian Performance of Services Index (PSI) for May is due out. In equities news, there's a briefing in Sydney on the News Corp split. In Australia, the market on Tuesday rebounded to post modest gains ...

Martin Currie expand Asian Equities team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
Martin Currie has appointed Damian Taylor as investment manager in the Asian Equities team. Taylor has worked in the industry for 13 years. He began his career at Goldman Sachs, and has since worked at Morgan Stanley equity business Boundary Capital. ...

Merrill Lynch to pay $120k over compliance infringement

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 3 JUN 2013
Merrill Lynch Equities (Australia) Limited (Merrill Lynch) has paid a penalty of $120,000 to comply with an infringement notice issued by the Markets Disciplinary Panel (MDP). The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) said Merrill ...

March sees moderate growth in super contributions

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... substantial increase in discretionary fund flows in the March quarter can be attributed to the strong performance of the equities market and positive reports of returns from superannuation funds," FSC chief economist James Bond said. Bond expressed concern ...

Markets poised on knife-edge: Standard Life Investments

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 MAY 2013
... the collapse of bond yields and low interest rates are supportive of a 'great rotation' out of fixed income assets into equities and other more risky areas. However, Milligan believes investors must be cautious. "Be careful if anybody ever talks about ...

Market Wrap PM

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... tumble. The downbeat prediction from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development also hit US and European equities. The benchmark S&P/ASX200 index hit its lowest level since April 18 on Thursday, after the OECD forecast Australia's economy ...

No growth in managed funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... property. Reinforcing the systemic challenges confronting the sector, only 35% of the sector's aggregate FUM is held in equities and even this subsegment has experienced no growth in the past year despite the sustained ASX rally, meaning retail managed ...

Prime Value launches concentrated equities fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... further into the retail space from its family office- focused origins. The Prime Value Opportunities Fund, a concentrated equities fund structured to balance outperformance and capital preservation. The fund will hold between 10 and 30 stocks mainly ...