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NAB Super restructures alternatives portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 NOV 2010
... investment (higher risk) corporate bond exposure. The move was made to lower the potential volatility of the diversified fixed interest sector. The fund however chose to retain the floating rate credit exposures and considered them "advantageous as this ...

Amundi fixed interest team walks

S&P RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
Amundi Asset Management's global diversified fixed interest fund has been placed 'on hold' after the fund manager's London chief executive and chief investment officer left the firm. Bruno Crastes, chief executive and chief investment officer of the ...

Amundi rebrands funds

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 MAR 2010
... rebranded Amundi VAR8 Absolute Return fund and the CAAM Global Bond fund has been renamed Amundi Global Diversified Fixed Interest fund. The CAAM Global Emerging Markets fund has been changed to the Amundi Global Emerging Markets fund. This is part of ...

VFMC underperforms across four asset classes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... bonds portfolio lost over five per cent while the benchmark returning more than 10 basis points. VFMC's diversified fixed interest portfolio represents the groups best performing asset class, returning over 11 per cent and beating the benchmark by over ...

EQT and Schroder get ratings upgrade

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
The EQT PIMCO Wholesale Diversified Fixed Interest fund was upgraded from four stars to five stars while Schroder Fixed Income fund's rating was also changed from three to four stars following a sector review by Standard & Poor's. The fixed interest ...

SRI super option blitzes market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 SEP 2009
... Shares option, which returned more than 2 per cent. The fund's cash option returned 1.4 per cent and its diversified fixed interest option returned over 2.5 per cent during the same time period. Mark Delaney, deputy chief executive and chief investments ...

VFMC suffers portfolio losses

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2009
... up more than 45 per cent of the total portfolio), other asset classes have been hit hard too. VFMC's diversified fixed interest investments outperformed the index for the quarter, although for the full year, it lost 5.62 per cent, a wide distance to ...

Fixed interest still tops cash: Zenith

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 12 NOV 2007
... from an initial list of 73, as well as upgrading the Credit Suisse Syndicated Loan Fund, Macquaire Diversified Fixed Interest Fund and Putnam Worldwide Income Fund to 'Highly Recommended'. However, they downgraded Colonial First State's Wholesale Global ...

Bigger teams, more products for fixed interest: S&P

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 1 MAY 2007
... (S&P). The inaugural S&P fixed interest sector report surveyed both the Australian fixed interest and diversified fixed interest sectors, covering 30 managers offering more than 60 core products. The report found that despite a dramatic increase in staff ...

Don't put all your credit in one basket

... that is affecting both the domestic and international credit markets. In the year to 30 November 2006, diversified fixed interest funds returned an average 5.6 per cent against the average Australian fixed income fund which returned a lower 5.45 per ...