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Active manager mandates to increase: Mercer

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Mercer, one of the country's largest asset consultants, is advising its institutional clients to allocate more funds with active managers to capture the one-off abnormal returns coming out of stockmarkets as they switch into recovery mode. Simon Eagleton ...

FTSE launches enviro tech indices

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2009
FTSE Group has launched seven environmental technology indices. The indices provide exposure to the environmental technology firms that could play a major role as the world's economies shift to a low carbon economy. The indices include the FTSE Environmental ...

Asset Super completes intl mandates review

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
Asset Super has made sweeping changes to its international equities and bonds mandates, dropping seven out of eight international equities fund managers and appointing nine new mandates across both asset classes. Asset Super has discontinued mandates ...

Integrity and Bennelong win HIP mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... allocation, according to Rainmaker data. Bernays said the fund is not looking to consolidate any of its managers across any asset class following the news AustralianSuper cut the number of Australian equities managers it uses. "I think we're set at the ...

BlackRock to buy Barclays Global Investors...

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2009
... dramatically," said Fink. These include the globalisation of capital markets, a greater focus on asset allocation, multi-asset class solutions, fiduciary management, risk management and advisory services, he said. Blake Grossman, chief executive of Barclays ...

HNWs to buy Aus equities

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
Australian High Net Worth (HNW) investors, or those with more than $1 million of investable assets, are more likely to put fresh funds into Australian equities and cash-like investments over the next 12 months than in any other asset classes, a survey ...

Global infra funds fall short

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2009
... Index lost 32 per cent over a year to April, which according to van Eyk is one of the worst performing periods in the asset class's history. However, the index was 5 per cent better than the MSCI World Index which lost over 37 per cent during the same ...

Club Plus overhauls Aussie eq

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 JUN 2009
... he said. Fewer managers also enabled the fund to have targeted and more specific exposure to Aussie equities as an asset class, and avoid overlapping of shares - the same reason AustralianSuper also reduced its manager line-up. Although Cahill is not ...

BlackRock wins Lonsec top rating

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
BlackRock's balanced funds have been upgraded by Lonsec to "Highly Recommended" - making BlackRock the only single-manager diversified fund offering to receive the top rating. Lonsec upgraded BlackRock's balanced funds from "Recommended" to its current ...

AMP awards $43m mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
AMP Capital Investors has awarded a $43.5 million mandate to Man Investment's part-owned manager, Nephila Capital. Nephila Capital is an alternative investment manager specialising in catastrophe reinsurance. The firm invests across the range of insurance-linked ...