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J.P. Morgan extends protection to retirees

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
Pre-retirees take heart - a global asset manager is looking to implement a new strategy that allows Australian investors to have 80 per cent protection of the highest value of their investments as risk aversion continues to sweep the market. According ...

CAAM eyes credit and currency

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
Credit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) is shifting the firm's global fixed income strategy's emphasis from specific country exposure to a sector based strategy that targets credit securities and currency plays. CAAM Global Bond fund's recently released ...

APRA to monitor investment options

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 26 MAY 2009
APRA is continuing plans to ramp up its data collections, in particular to collect performance data on individual investment options. To refine its approaches the regulator has issued another discussion paper on how it should be done, how it should ...

Plum members avoid switching

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
Bucking the trend of high volumes of super members switching to cash, Plum Financial Services has reported that less than 2 per cent of its assets were switched to cash in the last 12 months despite the market crash as members hang on to investments. ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2009
The Australian share market had fallen more than one per cent at noon on Friday, following a night of similar losses on Wall Street. At 1200 AEST, the benchmark S&P/ASX200 was down 42.4 points, or 1.11 per cent, at 3,771.5, while the broader All Ordinaries ...

Instos pump $700bn into Islamic finance

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
The Islamic finance market has grown by as much as 20 per cent each year for the past six years and is now a $700 billion plus industry, according to State Street. The firm's latest Vision Report on the subject estimated that total assets under management ...

VicSuper seeds $150m low carb fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
Super fund VicSuper continues to take the front step in addressing the global carbon emissions challenge when it awarded Vanguard an initial $150 million mandate to invest in stocks that generate the same returns as the market but with half the carbon ...

Russell tops transition manager awards

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
... won top rankings in the annual surveys conducted by PLANSPONSOR and Global Investor magazines. Russell was ranked "Best in Class" by investment managers in all categories of PLANSPONSOR's 2009 transition management survey, including pre-trade, execution ...

PASL to tap alternatives

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009
... AESuper, Recruitment Super and Accountants Super, says the fund is aiming to fine-tune its alternative investments - an asset class that has not traditionally been tapped by PASL. "At present the one component of the portfolio that hasn't been finalised ...

To Scotland we will go

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2009