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Asgard ramps up ETFs and direct equities strategy

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... Craig Lawrenson, has mapped out a three-year business plan, including a more aggressive strategy towards providing direct equities, model portfolios and Exchange Traded Funds (ETFs) to its platform. Lawrenson said that within the next three years, Asgard ...

Market Wrap - Morning

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 19 NOV 2010
... economic trends, and the Australian Office of Financial Management (AOFM) issues $700 million of October 2014 bonds. In equities news, Telstra Corporation Ltd holds its annual general meeting, as do Sims Metal Management Ltd, Spotless Group Ltd, Continental ...

Fund manager challenges 'avoid' rating

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... comments "emotional rather than logical". The ratings house said in a report that Challenger had spun off its Australian equities business into a boutique called Alphinity Investment Management in July. However the former head of equities, Peter Greentree ...

Direct property makes a comeback

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... property over the same period, with 2.8 per cent. Meanwhile, the correlation between listed property and conventional equities has increased dramatically since the GFC, undermining claims that LPTs offer investors diversification from equities. David ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 18 NOV 2010
... Australian Bureau of Statistics issues figures on merchandise imports in October and on average weekly earnings in August. In equities news, annual general meetings are due for Woolworths Ltd, Brambles Ltd, Challenger Financial Services, Sonic Healthcare ...

Median Australian shares fund down: Mercer

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... during the year". The fund is an all cap strategy that is benchmark unaware, which Oliver Trusler, investment specialist equities for Schroders, said also differentiates itself from other funds due to its diversity with around 70 sotcks in the funds ...

Perpetual FUM stable despite KKR bid

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... stood at $26.7 billion - unchanged from the preceding month. Net inflows of $260 million from institutional clients into equities were largely offset by $461 million outflows from institutional cash. With the long running saga at AXA now apparently resolved ...

Lower returns outlook will change allocation choices

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... happening to trustees the world over, said Stephane Mauppin-Higashino, head of development and product specialist for equities and asset allocation at Amundi Asset Management. "Trustees used to expect 7 per cent per annum returns but that is no longer ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
... Australian Office of Financial Management conducts a tender process for the issue of $500 million of April 2020 bonds. In equities news, Commonwealth Bank Australia chief executive Ralph Norris addresses the British Chamber of Commerce on "Why the Financial ...

Suncorp Life sells Tyndall to Nikko AM

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... company won't impact daily activities. The investment teams, process and brand will all be retained with the Australian equities value and fixed income teams to continue to be led by their respective heads, Bob Van Munster and Roger Bridges respectively. ...