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Sunsuper adds to investment committee

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 30 MAY 2013
... advise the board on the Fund's investment activities, with particular responsibility for investment management and performance, policy-setting, administration, and compliance. "Continued strong growth in Sunsuper's assets gives us greater capacity to ...

Perpetual hires new distribution manager

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
... delivered for clients. Dean will lead our sales and marketing efforts to capitalise on the vast opportunities this performance creates to grow our client base and funds under management," Gordon continued. Most recently Winterton was head of institutional ...

Super funds need low volatility shares for pension portfolios

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... don't have those characteristic, such as the miners. Many managers hold those companies because they want to track the performance of the index," Tagliaferro explained. The boutique's flagship Australian Share Fund lists dividend favourites Westpac ...

BNP Paribas opens global equity trust to Australia

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... available Trust will be able to benefit from this focused approach as well as from the extensive expertise and strong performance culture of Carnegie's investment team. The group announced their strategic alliance with the fund manager in November last ...

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
... "Fed would unwind soon" headlines than this column's musing that, "that time is not yet". Yeah, the equity markets' performance last week backed up those jitter-inducing headlines. Little ol' moi has just gotten reinforcements too - and it's from one ...

Pressure on benchmark affects managers performance: Cuffe

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
The pressure on fund managers to outperform benchmarks in the short term could be preventing them from achieving high returns, UniSuper chairman and founding director of Third Link Investment Managers Chris Cuffe said. "It is hard to get alpha and I ...

Tides to turn for Platinum: Neilson

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... nineties, we had very little Aussie dollars." "When the Aussie suddenly goes up another 7%, that does damage your performance, because that's straight off your performance." He also said that the fund stuck to its strategy of investing in businesses ...

MySuper puts focus on active tax management investing

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013

Former Bell Potter adviser sentenced to 5 years jail

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... (SMSF) to invest in listed Australian equities and derivatives. According to ASIC, Evans provided false trading and performance reports, failed to repay the balance of the proceeds to the investors, and in some instances used clients' money as collateral ...

ASIC to accept submissions for 'hedge fund' definition

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
... of debt, the use of derivatives subject to limited carve-outs, the use of short selling, or the rights to charge a performance fee. ASIC considers that any scheme with two or more of these characteristics can be considered a hedge fund. ASIC has also ...