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nabInvest makes first move in global equities

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUL 2011
nabInvest has taken its first steps into the global equities management space, acquiring a stake in a US fund manager. As National Australia Bank's direct asset management business, nabInvest, currently manages $45 billion through in-house management ...

SMSF industry responsibility

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... perspective, the growing emerging client is the SMSF." "They are performance driven, they want control, and they prefer equities over manage funds. As an industry, do we sit here and watch as our funds platforms and managed funds dwindle away and continue ...

Cautious bulls predict solid earnings season

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUL 2011
... yield. Hugh Giddy, senior portfolio manager and head of research for Investors Mutual Limited, a large-cap Australian equities value manager, said the Australian market had produced reasonable returns in the last financial year, up 12%. He said some ...

Qantas signs up Russell for FX trades

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
Qantas Superannuation has outsourced its foreign exchange trades for active global equities and alternatives to Russell Implementation Services (RIS). Qantas Super, the trustee of the airlines $6 billion fund, has appointed RIS to provide agency foreign ...

Yale returns tough to replicate: academic

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... three times the average Australian super fund's alternatives allocation. Only 19% of YEF's assets are held in traditional equities and bonds, with less than 1% held in cash.

Carbon blast from the GST past

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUL 2011
... showing slowing imports and a jump in inflation. Speaking of which, it looks like it's going to be another bad hair day for equities given the almost 2% drop on Wall Street overnight because of resurgent bad news on debt - America's debt ceiling and ...

Investment head concerned by super approach

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2011
... Management has over $719 billion in global FUM and offers a 'multi expert business model' in the Australian market with equities, fixed income private equity and real estate products available to institutional investors.

Hidden threat may lurk on bank balance sheets

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... estate investors with interest only loans are the biggest threat to Australia's Big Four bank balance sheets, a senior equities analyst has said. While public attention has been captured by the Greek sovereign debt crisis and falling demand for home ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUL 2011
... Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) conducts a tender process to issue $700 million of October 2014 bonds. In equities news, OneSteel chairman Peter Smedley addresses an Australia-Israel Chamber of Commerce luncheon in Adelaide. On Thursday ...

New mandate flows increasing but more cash lies in wait

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 7 JUL 2011
... worth $1.5 trillion, the report said. Andrew Keevers, researcher at Rainmaker Information, said new mandate flows to equities and listed property dropped off immediately as the global financial crisis hit. "Superannuation funds held off allocating new ...