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AvSuper awards BEM mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
... currently in the Australian equities market," according to the fund. BEM's mandate will see the fund manager focus on the ASX top 50 stocks, looking at the total values of companies to assess their investment value. BEM will invest in companies priced ...

BTIM adds PM to macro strategies

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
... for Barclays Capital and Merrill Lynch in London. The BTIM Macro Strategies boutique generates alpha using market neutral, top-down strategies in each major asset class including global equities, global bonds and global currency. "We invest across different ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... on Tuesday that the recovery had slowed. The US Federal Reserve avoided pulling the trigger on fresh stimulus spending at a top-level policy meeting on Tuesday but said it was prepared to act if the tepid economic recovery cooled further. At 1208 AEST ...

Competing to devalue

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... currency dropped 0.7 percent to 84.53 yen, from 85.09." And that, "The Dollar Index, a gauge of the U.S. currency versus six top trading partners, sank to the lowest level since March." Competitive devaluation has commenced. And like during the Great ...

TAAM attracts top Asia guns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Boutique fund manager Treasury Asia Asset Management has appointed leading contrarian investor Marc Faber and one of Singapore's most successful fund managers, Teng Ngiek-Lian, to its investment advisory board. Faber, author of "The Gloom Boom & Doom ...

Recession over, now for the recession

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... do, is still anybody's guess. But gold's going gaga in the past few days suggests that financial markets expect the FOMC to top up its quantitative easing measure very soon, if not from tomorrow. Last month, the Fed decided to reinvest the principal ...

NZ Super to look for green mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... diligence process - we can then go out and actively consider investments where you get an environment or social return, on top of your financial return. "As a consequence of what we're doing, that will flow into perhaps how we structure mandates in the ...

MLC Insurance on the hunt for new EGM

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 14 SEP 2010
MLC Insurance has an opening for the top job after Andrew Hagger assumes the new role of corporate affairs and marketing executive for National Australia Bank. This follows news that Hagger moves to corporate affairs while Andrew Howard, general manager ...

More governance needed on remuneration

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 SEP 2010
... pay packages barely changed despite the GFC. The Australian Council of Superannuation Investors (ACSI) in its CEO Pay in the Top 100 Companies: 2009 report studied the remuneration of five highest paid CEOs with the performance of their companies, and ...

DTCIM selects Imagine software

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
... Yvonne Dahl, global director of sales and marketing at Imagine. Imagine was recently voted by financial technology users as the top ASP vendor in Asia Risk magazine's Technology Survey 2009 and has offices in Sydney, New York, London and Hong Kong. Its ...