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HSBC targets planners with Asian wide product

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
HSBC is targeting financial planners with a new product that gives Australian investors exposure to seven key Asian markets. The HSBC100+ Series Asian Equity Investment is a structured product offering capital protected exposure to equity markets in ...

CFS tilts at emerging market returns

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 3 MAY 2011
Colonial First State subsidiary Realindex Investments has launched an emerging markets index fund that seeks to remove the drag of weighting distortion with value investing techniques. The fund, which will have fees of 79 basis points per annum and ...

Fund managers follow the herd

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
Global equities fund managers are often choosing the same stocks for their top 10 holdings, research house Lonsec has found in its latest global equity fund sector review. The review rated 39 funds of which 26 were qualitatively managed by active stock ...

Fund managers struggle to beat index

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 APR 2011
Active fund managers found it very difficult to beat benchmark performance indexes after fees in the first quarter, research house Morningstar has revealed. Managers investing in large-cap Australian shares were evenly split between those that beat ...

Russell makes senior hires

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
Russell Investments has appointed Frank Russo as senior consultant in Australia and strengthened its Asian consulting and advisory business with arrival of Trevor Persaud. Russo joins Russell from independent asset consultant Access Capital Advisers ...

Perpetual to debut global resources

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
Fund manager Perpetual is going to the market this year with a new global resources fund, which has beaten its benchmark by a mile since its incubation four-and-a-half years ago. The new fund, Perpetual Global Resources, is managed by James Bruce, who ...

Researchers sharpen ETF focus

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
Research firms are putting more resources into rating ETFs as more financial advisers and dealer group shift more of their clients' funds into ETFs and away from comparable unitised and unlisted products. Lonsec, Morningstar and Standard & Poors are ...

State Street adds to ETF stable

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAR 2011
Continued growth in local demand for ETFs has prompted State Street Global Advisers (SSgA) to add a further three products to its SPDR ETF range. In April, State Street will launch a new ETF focusing on resources, one on financials and a third tracking ...

No-bull bull market

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
"I get knocked down But I get up again You're never going to keep me down..." - "I Get Knocked Down", Chumbawamba Well, well, what do you know Deuce Bigalow? The biggest drop in the equity markets so far this year now looks like one nice dip buying ...

Pain sans hysteria

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
Perhaps 'twas the Japanese people's seeming stoicism in the face of what could be as close to an apocalypse as we could get that although concerned, there hasn't been any observable and widespread panic in the financial markets. Sure the Nikkei-225 ...