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Wingate appoints senior analyst

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 24 NOV 2009
International equities manager Wingate Asset Management has appointed former Royal Bank of Scotland executive Alastair MacLeod as senior investment analyst. MacLeod joins Wingate from Royal Bank of Scotland in New York where he held roles including ...

First Super refines investment strategy

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
... investments in "growth" assets and 40 per cent in defensive. Likewise, changes have been made to the High Growth, Conservative Growth and Capital Stable accounts. Each option has had an allocation tweak to provide more exposure to defensive assets, except ...

BlackRock tops multi-sector review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... five star rating applies to the BlackRock Wholesale Balanced fund, BlackRock High Growth fund Class D, BlackRock Conservative fund Class D and BlackRock Moderate Balanced Fund CI D. A Standard & Poor's statement said the funds benefited from portable ...

EQT and PIMCO get van Eyk tick

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
Equity Trustees and PIMCO Funds have received AA and A ratings respectively from rating firm van Eyk in its 2009 Global Credit Review Ratings. The EQT PIMCO Global Credit Fund received van Eyk's highest AA rating, while the newly established EQT PIMCO ...

Military Super revamps strategic asset allocation

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 SEP 2009
... billion in assets under management at the end of September last year, will allocate an extra 26 per cent to cash in its conservative option - an increase from the fund's existing 20 per cent allocation. Exposure to debt will be reduced from 50 to 28 ...

How to survive the next market outlier

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... March lows, it is still down 33 per cent since October 2007 highs," he said. That is, even if an investor maintains a conservative and diversified strategy, instead of taking on more risk to recoup their losses, they still have "plenty of headroom" to ...

Bookmakers Super hit by liquidity issues

COMPANY RELEASES  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2009
... decision from the regulator by late September. The decision does not affect pension payments or members of the fund's conservative investment strategy options.

MasterSuper opens doors to all

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... of increased scale and public offer status. Personal members will be able to access nine investment options from conservative to aggressive investment strategies. Members can also access financial advice and free educational seminars, among other initiatives ...

Gen Y have unrealistic investment expectations: research

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
... expectations to single digit returns. However, while Gen Y expectations remain high, the average investment portfolio is conservative. The research found the average Gen Y investor holds a third in cash, more than 16 per cent in investment property and ...

Active members can cause asset allocation headache

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 17 AUG 2009
... for asset allocations and liquidity issues because funds will have to re-structure their portfolios to be much more conservative to appeal to people who have concerns about investing in equities." This comes after Chris Corneil, managing director at ...