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GFC hangover hits Perpetual profit

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... cent from the previous half to $27.5 billion. Net outflows of $1.3 billion largely from the lower-margin cash and fixed interest asset classes helped to improve revenue margins from 75 basis points to 79 basis points for the six months to December (year-on-year). ...

BlackRock iShares breaks $1bn barrier

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 FEB 2011
... increasingly using ETFs for specific investment strategies, she said. ETFs moving into non-equities assets classes such as fixed interest will also be a significant factor, said Fuhr.

AUI signs up fixed income veteran

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... fixed income. It is AUI's sixth joint venture business to date. "Australians are significantly underinvested in the fixed interest sector. Of our $1.7 trillion investments industry, only $195 billion is made up of fixed interest in managed funds via ...

Premium China expands fixed interest portfolio

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 14 FEB 2011
... this year providing adviser and researcher education on Asian markets as it prepares to launch its fourth fund in fixed interest. Jonathan Wu, head of distribution and operations at the firm, said that while there has been much talk about the prospects ...

Egypt not just another pyramid scheme

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
... cent fall in the Egyptian stock market but what the contagion effect will be. On the brighter side, the flow-on in fixed interest markets is however thought to be much less of a problem. This is not because the Egyptian pound has hardly moved against ...

Value Partners top Asia fund tables

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... Jonathan Wu, head of distribution and operations at Premium China Funds Management. Wu said Premium will launch its fixed interest fund in the next six months. This is the latest in a number of awards for the fund manager with its fund managers, George ...

Super contribs to SMSFs down, asset alloc steady

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 25 JAN 2011
... per cent to the sector. However, this is still marginally below the levels last year, which was at 40.5 per cent. Fixed interest holdings were maintained, with allocations slowly falling to 11.8 per cent compared with 12.2 per cent in the September quarter. ...

Top mandate winners woo super funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 17 JAN 2011
... investment deals in the past 12 months. The investments are spread across Australian and international equities, fixed interest and alternative asset classes. Schroders came in second with nine, and BlackRock third at eight. Vanguard, Perennial Investment ...

Zenith rates seven funds highly recommended

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... include Tyndall Australian Bond Fund, Macquarie Income Opportunities Fund, Goldman Sachs JBWere Core Plus Australian Fixed Interest Fund and Advance International Fixed Income Multi-Blend Fund. The other three include Colonial First State Wholesale Global ...

Covered bond conundrum

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... yields, said a QIC credit market expert. Australia's super funds already have comparatively low allocations to fixed interest and it's difficult to see how covered bonds will increase their appetite when the yields will be lower than those on offer in ...