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Transition mandates to reach record highs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
A record number of super funds and endowments will replace their fund managers later this year to get rid of poor-performing funds and make way for new asset allocation strategies, predicts Mellon Transition Management. MTM, the transition management ...

Hedge funds to get $60 billion boost

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 4 JUN 2009
Pension funds around the world are expected to pump up their $547 billion hedge fund allocation by more than $60 billion before December as they look to balance assets and liabilities, new research shows. Hedge fund managers are expected to heap an ...

DDH Graham eyes more QIC funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
... four funds being added to the DDH investment menu in March were the Conservative Growth Fund, Balanced Growth Fund, Aggressive Growth Fund, and Australian Shares Fund. The end result was the addition of three diversified funds to the DDH investment menu. ...

Conservative strategies pay for ITC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 MAY 2009
... market. "The industry is better off for having Timbercorp and Great Southern gone because ultimately they were very large aggressive growth companies." "We're at the stage now where the industry needs to reinvent itself and regain confidence from the ...

Clearway adds third client

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2009
... find a manager that has concentrated on portfolio management and establishing a track record ahead of implementing an aggressive marketing campaign - they have been managing money since 2001 but hired their first sales professionals in 2008," he said. ...

Main Street versus Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... Speaking of restrictive credit conditions, speculation that the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) will announce a more aggressive program to stop the rot also contributed to Wall Street's cheery sentiment last night. Rumours were that the Fed would ...

Spring springs on Wall Street

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAR 2009
... crying doom and gloom. By the same token, the end has already begun. It began when governments and central banks took aggressive action to ease the credit squeeze that is choking the global financial system. Positive signs that these are working maybe ...

Lift retirement age, lower long term benefits: IMF

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said countries should consider lifting their retirement ages, raising pension fund contribution rates and containing age-related expenditures such as health costs. The irony however is that countries with largely ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAR 2009
... expected to open lower with US and European markets falling heavily on more negative economic news and uncertainty over aggressive interest rate cuts in Britain. At 0820 AEDT on the Sydney Futures Exchange, the March SPI futures index was down 50 points ...

ASIC keeps short selling ban

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAR 2009
... to ASIC, the regulator weighed up the continued volatility in global financial markets and the potential damage from aggressive short selling against the loss of price discovery and market efficiency in making its decision. Other regulators and many ...