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GS JBWere global fund recommended by Lonsec

HAMISH MADDEN | MONDAY, 5 MAR 2007

Lonsec has given the Goldman Sachs JBWere Global Spectrum Fund a recommended rating on the basis of its large and established investment team and the strength of its quantitative factor models. The Global Spectrum Fund was launched in January as a long-term ...

MFS broadens product range

HAMISH MADDEN | THURSDAY, 1 MAR 2007

Australian Stock Exchange listed investment manager MFS has launched two new funds in response to client demand, the MFS Cash Enhanced Fund and the MFS Dynamic Growth Equity Fund. Philip Adams, MFS managing director, said the funds were created to respond ...

AXA wins Morningstar's Fund Manager of the Year

NICK OLIVER | TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2007

... top 10 placings in each individual investment sector before weights are applied according to the importance of each asset class in the sector. Sector awards are, however, derived using a mix of risk-adjusted medium to long-term performance analysis and ...

Principal kicks off global listed property fund

NICK OLIVER | TUESDAY, 27 FEB 2007

... benchmarked against the FTSE-EPRA-NAREIT Global Real Estate Index. "International listed property is rapidly evolving as an asset class and we see enormous value in bringing our expertise managing global real estate assets to Australian investors," said ...

Macq and Citi offer best of more worlds

The brainiacs at Macquarie and Citigroup have been busy creating products that offer investors the best of both worlds, letting investors scoop up all the returns of the best performing investments and none of the losses from the worst. MQ Specialist ...

...meanwhile hedge fund sector returns can be synthesised

ALEX DUNNIN | MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007

... early in the life cycle of the new SSgA concept, its already creating "positive reaction because it demystifies this asset class called hedge funds." Brakke said, "It has every feature of a hedge fund but in a good way. You can just look in your portfolio ...

Morningstar buys S&P managed fund data business

Listed investment research group Morningstar has acquired Standard & Poor's (S&P) mutual fund data businesses globally for $70 million ($US55 million) in cash, a move that effectively gives Morningstar a 'monopoly' on managed funds data in Australia. ...

Symantec survey finds IT perception gap

Symantec has released the findings of its first IT Risk Management Report this year and found a gap between the attitudes of IT directors versus IT executives within the same company. Among the key findings of the report, which polled more than 500 ...

Tyndall beefs up EPiC

NICK OLIVER | MONDAY, 19 FEB 2007

... able to get detailed information on performance, analyse correlations between funds, create portfolios and ascertain asset class exposures by blending funds. "EPiC combines several methodologies to work out a scientific weighting of a collection of managed ...

Ignore global benchmarks: Aberdeen

HAMISH MADDEN | FRIDAY, 16 FEB 2007

... hence were a poor guide for diversifying equities investments. "We believe that if a portfolio has 50 per cent in any asset class, be it sector or country, then that portfolio is not diversified in an absolute sense," he said. For this reason, he said ...

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Treasury responds to Debelle's review into the AOFM

KARREN VERGARA

Treasury has responded to the Guy Debelle-led review into the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM), agreeing to all six recommendations.

Bravura ups guidance, reports earnings increase

RIDDHIMA TALWANI

Bravura Solutions informed investors cost discipline will protect its full year earnings result after a client migrated to a Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) early in the year.

MaxCap hires from Vanguard, AustralianSuper

MATTHEW WAI

MaxCap has welcomed two senior directors, including a portfolio manager from Australia's largest super fund, reporting to the recently named chief executive Kylie Robb.

Zenith snags mandate from Granite Bay

MATTHEW WAI

Granite Bay Private Wealth has selected Zenith Investment Partners to support their investment governance and due diligence.

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