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PIMCO appoints insto specialist

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 6 JUN 2011
... executive vice president to help service an anticipated increase in demand from superannuation clients looking to fixed interest for reliable returns. Eric Frerer has been appointed executive vice president and account manager, focusing on institutional ...

Aussie downgrades likely as S&P reviews rating system

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 31 MAY 2011
... excessive credit growth, asset price bubbles and the system-wide funding profile of a country's banking industry. Fixed interest professionals expect that when the new methods are implemented in the fourth quarter, S&P will follow Moody's Investors Services ...

Bentham wins $350 million mandate

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 27 MAY 2011
... to December 2010 with 157 outstanding. Of those mandates, 82 were in alternative investments, one in cash, 13 in fixed interest, four in Australian fixed interest, 29 in property, 14 in international equities, 11 in Australian equities and two were unspecified. ...

Fixed interest ETFs to fill "massive hole"

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2011
... ETF industry. It's very much like the dynamic that existed in the US a decade ago," said Keenan. Emerging market fixed interest ETFs are also rising in prominence and earlier this month Van Eck launched the first exchange-traded fund that holds only ...

Investors leave mortgage funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 23 MAY 2011
... formerly frozen funds, ratings agency Standard & Poor's said today. The research house said funds in its Australian Fixed Interest - Mortgages peer group were experiencing more outflows than inflows. The funds had all continued to deliver monthly income ...

Goldman Sachs downgraded but fixed interest pays

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
Active Australian fixed interest funds performed well in 2010, according to Standard & Poor's Fund Services, which upgraded two managers and downgraded one. Aberdeen Australian Fixed Income and Advance Australian Fixed Interest Multi-Blend were upgraded ...

UniSuper to shed mandates

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... latest Rainmaker study. Its mandates were apportioned with 98 to alternative investments, three to cash, six to fixed interest, 17 to property, 36 to equity and one to a diverse category. Pearce said some of the biggest mandates were in fixed interest. ...

Macquarie top mandate catchers

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 MAY 2011
... Group won three mandates in Australian equities, two in international equities, four in property, six in Australian fixed interest, one in international fixed interest and four in alternatives. The biggest, awarded by Commonwealth Bank Officers' Superannuation ...

More change in INGIM OptiMix Multi team

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 6 MAY 2011
... Mark Robertson, who has been with ING Investments since November 2006, is leaving his role on bonds portfolios and fixed interest to a role in the ING Investment Europe in head office in Holland. Meanwhile, Tania South, senior portfolio manager listed ...

Super fund returns fall again to 5 per cent

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 MAY 2011
... returning less than one per cent for the past 12 months is just another dead weight factor holding back returns. Fixed interest returns of 8 per cent contain better news for super fund members, though these assets being just 12 per cent of all superannuation ...