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Boutique managers consistently outperform: research

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... boutique fund managers have consistently outperformed both non-boutique peers and indices over the past 20 years, global research found. US-based Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) study The boutique premium found that over the last two decades the average ...

4 Corners hires ahead of infrastructure fund launch

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
4 Corners Infrastructure has appointed a senior equity analyst to build out the manager's research capabilities ahead of the launch of a global infrastructure fund in the second half of 2015. Mark Jones joins from Goldman Sachs Asset Management, where ...

US fiduciary rule fight not slowing down

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 16 JUN 2015
... because in the long run such products impose higher costs on the end investor. Bentsen was most likely trying to downplay research that was been released by the DOL in 2014 that claimed financial incentives to advisers could cost an estimated $210 billion ...

EY and UTS form financial data partnership

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... services industry. The financial services analytics alliance will see both organisations apply their data analytics and research capabilities to areas such as cyber-crime, customer interaction and retention and risk. EY and UTS signed a five year agreement ...

Super pool reducing Aussie reliance on foreign capital: ASFA

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2015
... the view of the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA), who recently commissioned Vidler Policy and Research to "provide an economic framework for consideration of superannuation tax policy settings." The research shows superannuation ...

Rice Warner debunks super myths

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
The chief executive of superannuation research and advice firm Rice Warner believes Australians will be set up for poor retirement unless the industry kills off its many myths. In his latest column for Rice Warner, Michael Rice said many proposed solutions ...

Executive appointment round-up

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... makes appointment to open New York office - Andrew Kwee will head up the new US business. SG Hiscock appoints head of research - Hamish Tadgell joins from Goldman Sachs, where he was chief investment officer for Australia's global investment research ...

Game theory theorises no Grexit

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 12 JUN 2015
... and bonds the day before (but that's just me). And then there's this piece my esteemed colleague and head of investment research at our shop, John Dyall, showed me last week bolstering the argument for no Grexit. It's a piece written by Jon Hartley on ...

Managed funds jump $115 billion

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
Managed funds grew by $115.2 billion in the 12 months to end of March, according to the latest report from researcher Plan For Life. Retail managed funds ended the year up $45.3 billion (or 14.4%) to total $742.7 billion. Most of the leading companies ...

Australia bottom of the class for portfolio disclosure

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 11 JUN 2015
... is ahead of Germany, Italy, South Korea, the UK, Ireland and France. Morningstar's Asia Pacific managing director or research strategy, Anthony Serhan, and senior research engineer Benjamin Alpert, who co-authored the report said: "At its best, portfolio ...