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Northern Trust exposes fixed income assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... Africa. "At the same time, asset owners are demanding increased transparency around their investments." Trotter said historically, it's been harder to obtain detailed performance analysis on fixed income holdings compared to standard exchange-traded ...

QIC's new asset class a hot commodity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
... starting to behave like each other. The QIC Red Paper found although fixed interest and equity market assets are historically recognised as portfolio diversifiers, the recent market downturn revealed their performance could coincide. At the same time ...

More super to move into daily pricing

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... incredible morphing of super fund clients... a rapid evolution and change of focus that sees super funds go from historically being monthly valued - to becoming more investment manager like with more frequent reporting needs," said Stephen Tremelling ...

US pension funds review securities lending

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
... that there are no free lunches in investing," said Greenwich Associates consultant Dev Clifford. "When markets were historically strong it became easy for parties on both sides to accept the status quo - and the incremental investment returns. Now that ...

Growth and inflation updates

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 11 AUG 2008
... the unbelievably strong increase of 1.0 percent in the March quarter. Recall that even the Japanese government - historically always more bullish on the economy - has warned that Japan could tip over into a technical recession. In year-on-year terms ...

The nub of being a hub

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2008
... conference yesterday, Rainmaker's director of research and editorial Alex Dunnin said Australian fund managers have historically "punched above their weight" in terms of the size of the local market and how much local fund managers manage on behalf of ...

Mariner targets European aged care

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 JUL 2008
... global presence in the senior housing and care sectors in order to deliver choice and ingenuity to a market that has historically lacked creative thinking," said Scott Marinchek, executive partner, Mariner Third-Age Retirement Living. He added the group's ...

BNY Mellon taps distressed debt

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... earnings against the benchmark 0.3 per cent. Given the timing of the launch in 2006, which was in an environment of historically low and still declining default rates, Mellon Global Alternative Investments (MGAI) designed the fund to incorporate a full ...

Macquarie EM infra index could become benchmark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... Sterling, Australian dollar and Japanese yen. Stewart Ferns, Macquarie Research Equities equity analyst, said MEMIDI had historically posted an annualised return of 36.5 per cent over the last three years ending April this year in US dollar terms. The ...

AXA halves adviser PI expense

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 MAY 2008
... premiums have reduced significantly," said Wallace. He said the agreement was only possible because of AXA Australia's historically low claim record. Reflecting this, practices that are Certified Quality Advice Programme (CQAP), receive an extra 10 per ...