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GMO expands Aus equities team

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... Australian Equities team. Wells joins GMO from Macquarie Investment Management, where he was senior portfolio manager of style neutral Australian equity funds. In his new role, Wells will participate in all aspects of managing GMO's Australian equity ...

Fujitsu and tradeslot sign carbon mgmt deal

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 JUN 2008
Fund managers and super funds at a loss on how to quantify the costs of going carbon neutral or want to analyse their carbon footprint can look to a new carbon management platform developed by IT group tradeslot with the backing of Fujitsu Consulting. ...

Emissions trading won't fix climate change: expert

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAY 2008
... expected to increase coal-generated electricity prices by around 17 per cent. But this could create an incentive for carbon neutral electricity to compete head to head at a considerable price discount, the theory being that traditional power companies ...

Westscheme tackles ESG with Regnan

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 MAY 2008
... Westscheme after appointing specialist advisor Regnan to help screen its investment options. Westscheme currently uses a style neutral enhanced index approach to managing Australian equities, which does not explicitly take into account ESG issues in ...

Private wealth managers bank on CRM

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 APR 2008
... dealer group or may elect to acquire assets directly. Our experience shows that high net worth clients might adopt beta neutral, market tracking assets via direct channels, which highlights the importance of tracking and reporting on this activity since ...

NAB boutique launches retail fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 APR 2008
... Northward Capital, has launched the division's first retail fund, Northward Capital Australian Equity Trust. The fund adopts a neutral investment strategy so that it can outperform in different market conditions with between 90 to 100 per cent allocated ...

Volatility hits 5-year high

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 10 APR 2008
... and what is real. VanMac also reports that half of US equities managers remain bearish compared to one-third that are neutral and only 14 per cent that are upbeat. Unsurprisingly - in light of statements by the US Fed and IMF - VanMac said 50 per cent ...

SELECT expands senior team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAR 2008
... offered by Gottex Fund Management&[which] now have over $17.3 billion in funds under management, mainly in their market neutral fund of hedge funds," he said. Foley said the Select Diversified and Alternatives Portfolios has performed well in the last ...

Suncorp/Tyndall shifts to enhanced indexing

... is a temporary measure to round off our total interim management package and will continue until we have our new style-neutral in-house equity team in place." At present, the group runs two equity investment styles, style-neutral investing through Suncorp ...

Western Asset repositions for 2008

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2008
... backed securities to continue its positive return performance in 2008. "In terms of strategy we're going to remain pretty neutral, not too much changes. We like mortgage backed securities and investment grade credit in the European financial sector and ...