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Asset allocation shifts as EM turns strategic: MFS

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
Institutional investors are starting to look at the emerging market asset class more of a 'strategic' rather than an 'opportunistic' play, according to a visiting global portfolio manager. Thomas Melendez, Institutional Equity Portfolio Manager - MFS ...

Powerwrap acquires MWH Capital

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Independent administration platform provider Powerwrap has acquired financial services firm MWH Capital, it was announced yesterday. MWH Capital has a clearing and execution agreement in place with Pershing Limited, a subsidiary of BNY Mellon. Powerwrap ...

netwealth creates new national advice group

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAR 2013
Wealth management group netwealth yesterday announced the formation of a new national advice group which it hopes will create an attractive proposition for advisers at all stages of their career. The new national advice group brings together Pathway ...

Hostplus awards $100m global equity mandate

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... operate on a cost structure that is a fraction of the size of its major competitors. "This allows us to offer an institutional quality fund at significantly lower pricing structures in both the Wholesale and retail classes." Hostplus manages the retirement ...

Hedge fund fees under pressure

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... areas. However, disappointing returns through 2010 and 2011, coupled with on-going industry pressure on fees has seen institutional investors across the globe review their hedge fund exposures. Korinke says that funds-of-hedge funds, which have an extra ...

AXA IM launches two SmartBeta products

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 18 MAR 2013
... although they are persuaded of the need to avoid the pitfalls of blindly tracking an index," said AXA IM head of institutional client strategy Tim Gardener. Gardener added that the filter process on the equity strategy essentially removes the bottom ...

EM managers eye huge super fund opportunity

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
Fund managers of all shapes and sizes and from all over the world are vying for institutional mandates in what many see as a perfect window of opportunity in the emerging markets space. A renewed appetite for riskier assets, increasing funds under management ...

IFM raises airport holdings

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAR 2013
... manages $39 billion across infrastructure, debt, private equity and listed equities and it invests on behalf of institutional investors.

Quantum makes T1 bonds available to retail investors

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... is that it is commonly available to wholesale investors who can put half a million on a single investment or to institutional investors - a sum that is well out of reach for the retail market. By contrast, retail investors can now buy them through Quantum. ...

Fund house publishes full holdings online

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
... 72-hour lag. The UK-based fund house, which is currently marketing its Global and Emerging Markets funds to Australian institutional investors, has the tagline 'complete portfolio transparency' and publishes its full list of holdings for anybody to see ...