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NZ Super takes mandates in-house

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
The New Zealand Superannuation Fund is dropping investment mandates with ING and Smartshares and taking them in-house. The fund announced the changes to improve flexibility, cut costs and is part of the fund's focus on having direct participation in ...

Agribusiness MIS suffer 77pc drop

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
First Timbercorp fell, then Great Southern plummeted - fuelling Australia's agribusiness managed investment schemes sector to suffer a 77 per cent decline in invested funds for the last financial year. New figures from the Australian Agribusiness Group ...

X-rays on APLs for Matrix advisers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... investment strategy, currency risk and fund objectives amongst other things, going well past just providing standard asset class and performance information. "Given the complexity of many products today, advisers need an 'x-ray' of the underlying strategies ...

Look past asset classes: Weaven

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
The time has come for institutional investors to look past asset classes and seek good value assets with robust revenue streams when implementing their post-GFC investment strategy, said Garry Weaven, chair of Industry Funds Management. Weaven, who ...

Instos target medium term strategies

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... environment. Because of this, effective dynamic strategic asset allocation calls need a blend of macro-economic and asset class valuation analysis to succeed. The tricky part is determining how much of the portfolio to allocate to the strategy. The consultant ...

IFSA appoints Brogden as CEO

IFSA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2009
... on 28th of August. "Richard has been integral in helping to build and refine what is increasingly recognised as a world-class retirement savings system in Australia," said IFSA chair, David Deverall. "I am very much looking forward to the task of ensuring ...

Volatility: a new asset class?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
Volatility is not just a market barometer of investor sentiment, it is an emerging asset class too, said a fund manager that has amassed $5.8 billion on volatility strategies since 1999. French fund management giant Credit Agricole Asset Management ...

CS appoints head of asset management Aus

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
... management business in Australia where we run a significant franchise focusing on alternative investments and multi-asset class solutions," said Salman Shoaib, head of asset management, Asia Pacific at Credit Suisse. "Australia continues to be a priority ...

CitySuper appoints $60m to Wellington

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2009
The $1 billion CitySuper has appointed a $60 million mandate to the Wellington Special Strategies Equity Fund. The $60 million came from an axed global equities mandate with Barclays Global Investors. According to Guy Rundle, investment relationship ...

Investors shift more money outside super

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
The increasing number of government reviews and recent Federal Budget changes to super have prompted clients to boost investments outside of super to fund their retirement, said Centric Wealth advisers. According to Anne-Marie Esler, technical services ...