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CAAM funds awarded 'recommended' rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... three-year time horizon. Meanwhile, Zenith Investment Partners said it strongly regarded Credit Agricole's emerging market equities team and believes the fund is well positioned to meet its objective and outperform the MSCI Emerging Markets Total Return ...

PIR sold to Aegis

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
Specialist research house Property Investment Research has been bought by Aegis Equities Research. According to an email that was circulated among PIR clients, Aegis plans to continue running PIR as a standalone business. However, there are "a number ...

Currency cushions GFC hangover

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... long-term, consistent and attractive risk-adjusted returns through exposure to a range of asset classes including global equities, fixed income and currency, balancing investment risk across the strategies in a way that allows the portfolio to benefit ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... is due. The Housing Industry Association - RP Data residential land report for the December quarter is published. In equities, Premier Investments is scheduled to release its first half results. Commonwealth Bank of Australia chief executive Ralph Norris ...

Hunter Hall says sorry

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
Peter Hall, the founder of $1.4 billion global equities fund manager Hunter Hall, started an investor presentation early this month with an apology for the group's "terrible performance" and set out a plan on how to recover last year's losses. "To start ...

Aladdin combines FI and eq

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 13 MAR 2009
... fixed interest platform. Nigel Allfrey, managing director of BlackRock Solutions, former head of Impact Investing, the equities decision-making company that merged into BlackRock last year, said the 1990s was the decade of 'build-it-yourself systems' ...

BT revamps wrap for equities

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
BT Financial Group is heeding its advisers' calls for more efficient equities trading and recently unveiled a three-year program to rework the BT Wrap platform. The three year program, which begins next Monday, will include the introduction of bulk ...

iShares adds three

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
... shares with the market tracking ability of index funds. These benefits prompted a massive switch to ETFs in international equities markets in 2008. Net inflows into ETFs worldwide totalled an estimated US$214.8 billion last year. In contrast, net funds ...

GESB seeks more unlisted exposure

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... considering increasing its current asset allocation of 5 per cent into unlisted assets after it was hard hit by the downfall of equities markets. GESB, which had $8.4 billion in assets under management at September last year, acknowledged that the fund's ...

Strike equities now: JANA

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... advising its clients, which control a combined $135 billion in assets, to pump funds back into domestic and international equities while the markets are trading near record lows. JANA, which advises 71 institutional clients with total assets of $134.8 ...