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QIC appoints Aussie trading desk head

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
QIC has appointed former Austock Securities executive Chris Claridge as head of equities dealing. Claridge will manage QIC's Australian equities trading desk, focussing on alpha generation. He specialises in facilitation, portfolio trading and derivatives. ...

Australian managers clock $650bn

... the country's fund managers made it to the top 500 listing with National Australia Bank, Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), ANZ, Westpac, Perpetual, Platinum Asset Management and Perennial Investment rounding up the top 10. Further down the chain ...

QIC appoints new beta manager

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 18 SEP 2007
QIC has appointed Bill Prendergast to the new position of Global Fixed Interest Beta Manager. Prendergast will manage QIC's global fixed income beta portfolios, including an inflation-linked bond mandate for QSuper. Prior to joining QIC, Bill spent ...

Future Fund appoints former QIC head strategist

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 SEP 2007
The Federal Government's $42 billion Future Fund bolstered its investment capability when it appointed former QIC chief strategist Tony Day as head of strategy. Day has previously held consulting and actuarial roles at Towers Perrin and AMP before spending ...

QIC appoints former HESTA marketing head

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 21 AUG 2007
QIC has scored a major coup when it poached former HESTA executive manager of marketing strategy Bruce Stafford become its new head of marketing. Stafford left after seven years at HESTA, where he won multiple awards, including two ASFA Communications ...

Active fund tax burden costs 4pc of returns

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
... investors to be able to see how their money is being managed from a tax-efficiency perspective," said Bowerman. In separate news, QIC awarded Vanguard a whopping $3 billion in passive mandates partly because of the index fund's focus on after-tax ret ...

QIC and QSuper pour $28b in alpha-beta mandates

Vanguard and State Street are among the winners of QIC's radical move announced a year ago to invest $28 billion in separate alpha and beta strategies, with both fund managers awarded around $3 billion each in passive mandates. Many super funds have ...

IFSA names three for industry excellence

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2007
Asteron's Gerard Kerr, Colonial First State Investment's Philip Barlin and QIC's Angela Keane have been awarded the coveted Industry Excellence awards from the Investment and Financial Services Association (IFSA). Kerr, who is head of claims at Asteron ...

QIC invests in UK pure alpha fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
QIC has awarded a $250 million mandate to UK-based asset manager Henderson Global Investors' Global Equity multi-strategy fund. The fund is a pure alpha strategy using fundamental, liquidity, relative value and event driven strategies, with a yearly ...

Sunsuper awards $580m mandate to US endowment fund

... institutions that are now part of Makena's initial core investor group. The other is the Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC), which has also awarded a $580 million (US$500 million) mandate to the US-based fund. Michelle Baltazar