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US and Aus open equities borders

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 26 AUG 2008
... More than 35 per cent of Australian funds are invested offshore and approximately one third of that is invested in North America, mostly in equities, according to John O'Shaughnessy, IFSA deputy chief executive. He said the arrangement would make it ...

Advisers snub commission-free ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... its latest newsletter for investors, CommSec said the Australian ETF market is relatively undeveloped compared to North America and Europe in that the local products do not provide trail commissions. "Unlike managed funds, there are no trailing commissions ...

Watson Wyatt hires ex Aon consultant

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
Watson Wyatt Australia appointed Andrew Povah to its Sydney based investment consulting team. Povah has more than nine years experience in superannuation and investments after previously working at Aon Consulting in Australia and the UK. In this role ...

Apostle fund raises $30m

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 AUG 2008
... International Investors and Vaughan Nelson Investment Management. Highclere manages all global investments besides North America while Vaughan Nelson manages the North America exposure. Karyn West, Apostle Asset Management managing director, said the ...

Insurers slow on green IT

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... cent of insurers in this region snub the environment, compared to 22 and 27 per cent respectively for Europe and North America. The global insurance industry has traditionally been a strong advocate for combating climate change, with many developing ...

Future Fund to release quarterly public reports

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... international assets are currently invested in line with the world index. "So we would have the majority of our assets in North America," he said.

Apostle launches global small-mid cap fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
... cabling. [In fact] electric cables are produced globally by two companies and one is a small to mid cap company in North America," said Wallis. He said despite North America being the source of the sub prime collapse, institutions would consider reallocating ...

Portfolio Partners appoints BD head

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 APR 2008
... competitor in the managed funds sector by September 2008. The merged entity will include UK-based Morley Fund Management, North America's Aviva Capital Management, MFM International, Aviva Investment Canada and Aviva Gestion d'Actifs (France). Alain ...

Lazard appoints Asia MD

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 APR 2008
Lazard Asset Management has appointed Henry Choon as managing director in business development and marketing for Asia, excluding Japan. Choon has more than 15 years experience in Asian funds management and prior to this appointment worked at Lehman ...

Retirement liabilities dwarf assets six-fold

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 18 APR 2008
Worldwide pension savings might have doubled in the 10 years to 2006 to US$24 trillion but retirement liabilities are estimated to be more than six times that, reveals the State Street Corporation pension industry Vision Report. This disparity illustrates ...