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Perpetual boosts multi-asset team

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... at BT, in the Commonwealth Department of the Treasury and in the Prime Minister's Office. Head of investment markets research Matthew Sherwood, who has worked with Perpetual Investments for the past decade, has been promoted to head of investment strategy ...

Another marquee hire for Rainmaker

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Rainmaker has expanded its superannuation research capability with a marquee hire. Rainmaker Group, one of Australia's leading diversified financial services and wealth management industry information and publishing groups, has appointed former Perpetual ...

FEATURE: How boutiques got their groove back

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... decades. Although large multi-managers were gaining pace on boutiques by buying them up around five years ago, recent research from Rainmaker Information seems to confirm boutiques have gotten their mojo back and justified their strong reputation: they've ...

Investors plan to up active allocation

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... allocations to passive strategies, and 24% indicated they would make no change to their portfolio. The survey follows research by Rainmaker published last year that showed Australian funds under management allocated to passive strategies had reached ...

AB managing director joins Dimensional

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2015
... joined Dimensional Fund Advisors after more than a decade with the global asset manager. He joins the fund manager and research house as a regional director in Sydney, Dimensional confirmed. AB said Kent handed in his resignation in December and officially ...

Advisers turning to annuities for longevity risk

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... advisers, shows that 38% of respondents were recommending annuities to clients - up from 32% in 2013. Furthermore, the research shows that lifetime annuities have become the "guaranteed income product of choice" with 39% of participants expressing an ...

Contango appoints analysts to capitalise on growing markets

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... addition followed strong performance across the various Contango funds for the March quarter. Scott was recently head of research at Ord Minnett and was the senior portfolio manager for Deutsche Asset Management from 1996 through to 2007. Puli joins ...

Floating in money

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... done by the Heritage Foundation back in 1999 titled, "How Reliable Are IMF Economic Forecasts?" (http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/1999/08/how-reliable-are-imf-economic-forecasts) Its conclusion? "Heritage analysts found evidence of inherent bias ...

Nikko partners geopolitical risk specialist

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
Nikko Asset Management has partnered with Eurasia Group to bring the global political risk research and consulting firm's geopolitical risk indicators within Nikko's multi-asset investment management process. Eurasia Group will provide the global investment ...

Sovereign wealth funds growing despite falling commodity prices

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... for the majority of sovereign wealth funds in 2014 despite steadily declining oil and commodity prices, according to research by Preqin. This is significant, Preqin argues, because many sovereign wealth funds rely on oil and commodities for funding. ...