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Macq sovereign bond fund scoops $300m

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 FEB 2010
... investors with exposure to the performance of the UBS Treasury Index. Raj Gohil, head of product management in the Fixed Interest, Currency and Commodities Asset Management division said the idea came out of investors wanting to restructure their fixed ...

New chapter in savings after government guarantee ends

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, MICHAEL HOBBS AND RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 8 FEB 2010
... massive outflows when the government introduced the guarantee - a trend that could soon reverse. Glenn Feben, head of fixed interest at Perennial, said the guarantee "was always going to be removed at some stage". "With investor risk appetite having ...

VFMC underperforms across four asset classes

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2010
... bonds portfolio lost over five per cent while the benchmark returning more than 10 basis points. VFMC's diversified fixed interest portfolio represents the groups best performing asset class, returning over 11 per cent and beating the benchmark by over ...

Aberdeen wins NGS and ING mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
Aberdeen Asset Management has won two Australian fixed interest and global equities mandates from NGS Super and ING IM. The wins include a $150 million fixed income mandate with the Non-Government Schools Superannuation Fund and a sizeable global equities ...

Investing on thin ice

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... further interest rate rises. The Tyndall Australian Bond Fund is ranked number one out of 36 funds in the Australian Fixed Interest category over three years and five years, according to Rainmaker Data. In the three years to November, the fund returned ...

AUSCOAL Super adds another cash manager

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 15 JAN 2010
AUSCOAL Super has given a fixed interest mandate to Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM) to invest funds in high-rated and secure cash investments. An AUSCOAL Super statement said the investment mandate is designed to make its cash ...

BT adds oil and gold to super portfolios

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... liquid, transparent and easily understood, she added. The research team also recommended more money into global fixed interest assets and maintaining an active exposure to equity markets. "Global fixed interest is looking more attractive so we're looking ...

AXA adds 20 funds to APL

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... Income fund. Four Barclays index funds were added to the list providing access to property securities, Australian fixed interest and local and international shares. Magellan Asset Management's Global fund and Infrastructure fund were also added to the ...

Legalsuper cuts 17 fund managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... fund managers were dropped from the Australian equity portfolio. Aberdeen Asset Management lost its Australian fixed interest mandate with the fund and Acadian Asset Management, Alliance Bernstein, Capital and Charlemagne Capital were cut from the overseas ...

Wellington and Omega win ING mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
OptiMix has appointed Wellington Management Company and Omega Global Investors to its Global Fixed Interest (GFI) portfolio. Emmanuel Calligeris, chief investment officer, multi strategies group, ING Investment management, said "The current investment ...