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Mercer awards three new mandates worth nearly $1 billion

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 30 AUG 2011
... asset managers Arrowstreet Capital Limited Partnership won the right to rule a $150 million mandate within the Overseas Shares Small Companies Portfolio inside Mercer's global equity allocation, which is worth just under $4 billion in total. The active ...

NAB Super eases hedging as dollar soars

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 7 OCT 2010
... consultant JANA Investment Advisers, would affect all of the fund's diversified options (based on their exposure to overseas shares). It will also affect the fund's single sector overseas shares option. The corporate fund made its decision after the ...

Planners sidelined for self-investing strategies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 FEB 2010
... mistrust of both planners and brokers, noted the report. Meanwhile Gen Y traders are showing a growing favour towards overseas shares. Around 56 per cent of Gen Yers stated they were likely to invest in global shares, compared to just 29 per cent of ...

Legalsuper cuts 17 fund managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... with the fund and Acadian Asset Management, Alliance Bernstein, Capital and Charlemagne Capital were cut from the overseas shares portfolio. While some fund managers lost one mandate in one asset class they may have gained another with Colonial First ...

Magellan Global tops overseas shares manager list

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... Magellan Global bucked the trend by posting a 1.3 per cent loss, pushing it to the top of the league tables of overseas shares managers for 2008. As a fund manager that has only been around for barely two years, Magellan is far from a household name. ...

Share performance gap widens after tax

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
... under a personal tax rate. The Russell/ASX Long Term Investing study analysed the performance of Australian and overseas shares, unlisted and unlisted property, fixed interest and cash over 10 and 20 year periods. The report accounted for superannuation ...

$500k fraudster gets jail time

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 12 MAY 2008
... for his personal use. Sellers used share trading accounts set up in the name of a friend to transfer and sell overseas shares that were held on trust by Taylor Collison, without any authorisation from Taylor Collison or their clients. Sellers also falsified ...

Direct property reigns: study

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2008
... sector provided a low income volatility of 0.3 per cent per annum, compared with listed property (10.6 per cent), overseas shares (13.8 per cent) and local shares (10.6 per cent). "Direct property is unique in that valuations are not sentiment driven," ...

Lonsec advice pays off: Mercer

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
... some of the researcher's feedback. Mercer's Income Plus, Growth Plus, Shares Plus, Australian Shares Plus and Overseas Shares Plus have all attained the 'highly recommended' rating. Lonsec found the funds had a competitive advantage in its portfolio ...

Vanguard puts case for passive-active allocation

... very low." For example, according to Mercer Retail Survey figures as at 31 December last year, the proportion of overseas shares fund managers outperforming their benchmark for the five years to December 2006 was 33 per cent. But in growth funds, only ...