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Zurich global growth fund added to Securitor APL

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... According to Zurich senior investment specialist Patrick Noble, markets are often slow to react to material changes in a company's performance, and so are often unable to correctly estimate the degree and duration of the effects those changes will have ...

Market wrap AM

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... share market is set for a flat start to trade after a quiet session on Wall Street, due to a lack of major economic or company news. At 0700 AEST on Wednesday, the March share price index futures contract was two points higher at 5,479. In economic news ...

SSgA ETF head leaves following appointment of new boss

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... Global Advisors (SSgA) Asia Pacific head of ETFs Frank Henze has stood down after more than three and a half years with the company. Henze's resignation follows a reshuffle of SSgA's Asia Pacific intermediary business group which saw James MacNevin appointed ...

CBA brings in foreign expertise for board

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUN 2014
... chief executive of Citi Asia Pacific, will join as a non-executive director on June 10. Sir David Higgins, chairman of the company currently developing a high speed rail network in the UK, and the boss of London's 2012 Olympic Delivery Authority, will ...

Finding alpha in ESG

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... Working Group felt that the series was a highly useful body of work that was able to assist proxy voting decisions and company engagement on remuneration issues," ESG RA said. Eighteen papers were nominated this year, 10 by Elaine Prior from Citi Research ...

EQT receives approval for ANZ Trustees acquisition

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... required for the acquisition of ANZ Trustees. Acting Assistant Treasurer Mathias Cormann has provided the approval, the company told the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX). "As such, the sale and purchase agreement with ANZ is now unconditional," EQT ...

Investors return to active global equities managers

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... managers' performance than in the years following the financial crisis. The percentage of global stock variation explained by company-specific factors averaged 82% in the first two months of 2014, significantly higher than the 72% monthly average in ...

IFM grows infra debt team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... senior analyst in infrastructure finance at Moody's. Prior to that he worked at Barclays, Financial Guaranty Insurance Company and KPMG. Cooper said of the appointment: "Investors have increasingly turned to infrastructure debt as a defensive allocation ...

PROFILE: Invesco CEO Martin Franc

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... business with a strong global brand and internationally applauded investment products. But despite these strengths, the company has had a tough time gaining traction in this market in the more than a decade it has had operations here. While Australia ...

'Weaven model' would get best infra deals: IFM

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2014
... means you might have anything from two or three to five or six consortiums who have got to have a separate construction company, who have got to have a separate debt provider, a separate facility manager." He said this means that the winning bid may ...