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Best laid plan

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JUL 2009
... chair, reassured the US Congress. The longer I observe the financial markets, the more confused (amused?) I get. When equities and commodities went on their upward trek starting in the middle of March, financial markets worried about exit strategies. ...

REST to allocate more active Aussie eq mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
Active Aussie equities managers will continue to win mandates with the $14 billion REST Super as the fund said it was sticking with its active manager core, despite several other big industry funds allocating bigger mandates to passive managers. Damian ...

NZ Super takes mandates in-house

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... addition, the fund's relationship with Smartshares also ended. The fund manager was appointed to manage a passive New Zealand equities mandate in 2005. The decision to drop all three mandates does not affect the fund's allocation in any of the respective ...

Healthcare, utilities and EMs top FM list

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009

Vanguard ETFs hit $20m mark

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2009
... Bowerman, head of retail at Vanguard Investments Australia, said while figures are yet to be finalised, the Australian equities ETF has gained the most flows and the firm is pleased with the amount of money the other international ETFs are getting. The ...

X-rays on APLs for Matrix advisers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... advisers this insight at a glance." With the new tools, Matrix advisers will be able to quickly distinguish international equities managers various approaches to currency hedging as well as easily distinguishing managers that use long -only strategies ...

Another dead feline bounce

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 16 JUL 2009
... round 2. Cling! Cling! With the economic environment still challenging at best and recovery in a galaxy far, far away US equities - and by extension, equities everywhere else - would be hard pressed to justify let along sustain the strong gains of the ...

Select hires advisory panel

PRESS RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... Partners. In addition, David Bell, director at St Davids Advisory and Bartholomew Dowling, investment manager - listed equities & fixed interest portfolios at AXA Australia were also appointed to the panel. The members of the investment advisory panel ...

US fundie expands into Japanese pensions

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... Investment Management LLC has been appointed by Nikko Asset Management as a sub-adviser to provide a customised international equities strategy to Japanese pension funds. INTECH will provide the firm's Kokusai Strategy which uses the MSCI Kokusai Index ...

The times they are a'changin

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... immortal lines from Charles Dickens' book, "A Tale of Two Cities". The past three months - the best of times (at least for equities and commodities) -- sent the bears scampering for cover. "It was the spring of hope." This time, the onus is once again ...