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State Super Fin Services CIO resigns, takes VIC Super post

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... moment). At present, VIC Super manages their Australian equities in-house alongside some fixed income investments run on a passive basis. "Oscar's an investment veteran with an impeccable pedigree. He's had nine years experience as a CIO and was a chief ...

Public policy to reshape investment risk: PIMCO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... participate in the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) Symposium, said this new risk factor means investors should be wary of passive fixed income portfolios as sovereign risk tends to dominate benchmarks. "Regarding the situation today, countries that have ...

Investors gain sector-based ETFs

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
... Socratous, managing director at Aii, said the sector-based ETFs would allow investors to apply an active strategy to a passive investment. He said ETFs had become more popular in the past 12 months as financial advisers move to a 'fee for service' remuneration ...

AXA adds 20 funds to APL

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... of technical research and paraplanning at AXA Australia. Thomas said the additional funds do not reflect a tilt towards passive or active investment strategies but aim to provide financial planners with more choice.

Wellington and Omega win ING mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... Global Investors was appointed to manage a mandate for index-enhanced global sovereign bonds. The inclusion of Omega, as passive managers, will assist in reducing portfolio volatility.

Virgin Super eyes SME market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 DEC 2009
... agents," he said. "Some of those things are also important to our customers such as daily unit pricing, liquidity and passive investment strategy, we've worked to develop."

EISS appoints Mercer as consultant

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
... inception in 1997. The fund has been busy assessing and rehashing its investment strategy, including focusing more on passive investment managers. "This is a change from the past where we primarily relied on carefully selective 'active' investment managers. ...

Frontier takes tough stance against asset-based fees

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 26 OCT 2009
... priced out by those who do, by greater internalising of investment management within the funds and/or by an increase in passive management. We are already seeing some emerging trends in this regard." Pros and cons Graeme Miller, head of investment consulting ...

Bond index returns beat active managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... retail at Vanguard Investments. But Bowerman is quick to point out that the argument should not be around active versus passive, but more about building a clients portfolio using a core that is indexed to control costs and lower overall risk. While an ...

Herding 20 cats

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... dependent upon these (emerging) countries for three to four trillion dollars of your debt and think that they're going to be passive observers of whatever you do." Yes, ladies and gentlemen, the global financial crisis has forced rich industrialised ...