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Aus custody back on uptrend, NCS still tops

ACSA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... settlement transaction volumes compared to last year. This may be a result of institutional investors adopting a more passive approach to trading activity," he said. As for the leader board, National Custodian Services is still the largest player in ...

UK pensions seek to award $400m mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... Kensington and Chelsea. The fund seeks a manager to manage a portfolio of index-linked gilts and global equities on a passive basis - with room for expansion to include other asset classes in the future. The initial value for the aggregate portfolio ...

SWFs no longer at arm's length

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
Sovereign wealth funds will gradually switch from being passive investors to active shareholders, predicts Andrew Rozanov, head of Sovereign Advisory at State Street Global Markets. This year Rozanov co-authored a comprehensive State Street report looking ...

HSBC wins AMP Capital mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
HSBC-owned quant manager Sinopia has won a mandate to provide global passive inflation-linked bonds to AMP Capital's Future Directions Diversified Funds. As the specialist quantitative asset management arm of HSBC Global Asset Management, Sinopia manages ...

ACSuper reviews investment strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2009
... funds management at ACSuper, said the fund moved $15 million out of a Australian equities mandate managed by van Eyk to a passive allocation while ACSuper surveys its members regarding its investment strategy. "We're surveying our members regarding the ...

REST to allocate more active Aussie eq mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 JUL 2009
... said it was sticking with its active manager core, despite several other big industry funds allocating bigger mandates to passive managers. Damian Hill, chief executive of REST, said the fund was "strongly in the active management camp", believing that ...

NZ Super takes mandates in-house

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... the local market. This decision means the fund has terminated its relationship with ING, which was appointed to manage passive New Zealand cash and, separately, credit mandates in 2003. In addition, the fund's relationship with Smartshares also ended. ...

Push for redemption freeze lifts: PASL

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... range of managed investment schemes previously regarded as liquid. "Yet the superannuation industry has been surprisingly passive on the issue. Few have questioned whether the Responsible Entities (RE) for these schemes have correctly applied the procedures ...

The quest for independent advice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... of that product, without giving any more advice to that client except at the point of sale. "What could happen is that "passive clients advisers" are dead in the water. They would need to re-consider their strategy and think of how they can deliver advice ...

J.P. Morgan wins Capital mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 JUN 2009
... Securities Services will provide global custody for the administration of assets within the international equity fund, and passive currency overlay services for a hedged version of the fund. The services will be provided by J.P. Morgan's Sydney-based ...