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Aberdeen funds added to mFund service

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2014
... The Aberdeen funds offered on the new service cover a range of asset classes including emerging market equities, Asian equities, global equities (including a hedged option) and diversified fixed income. The fund manager said the mFund service will complement ...

AIMA appoints new general manager

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 JUL 2014
The Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) has appointed former hedge fund manager Michael Gallagher as general manager of its Australian National Group. Gallagher replaces Brett Ireland who has decided to focus on a full-time role elsewhere ...

Challenger makes senior Fidante Partners appointment

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... institutional business and strategic alliances, Michael Clarke said. Fidante Partners' international businesses include Asian equities manager, Metisq Capital, global alternatives specialist, WyeTree, global infrastructure manager, Whitehelm Capital ...

TT International adds two to investment team

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 APR 2014
... from Manulife Asset Management, where he worked for nine years as a director and senior investment analyst in the Asian Equities team in Hong Kong. He had regional responsibility for Australia, New Zealand and Greater China. Robertson joins from the ...

PM Capital eyes Asia fund listing

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2014
... limited. "Australia accounts for less than 10% of the Asian Region (ex-Japan). A reallocation to more exposure to Asian equities will allow investors to strengthen their portfolios with greater diversification and exposure to industries not well represented ...

Signing of Asia Passport agreement expected

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 20 SEP 2013
... Asia Region Funds Passport, as the agreement is known, will make it easier for Australians to invest directly in Asian equities and allow domestic fund managers greater access to outside sources of funding. Financial Services Council (FSC) chief executive ...

Martin Currie expand Asian Equities team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 4 JUN 2013
Martin Currie has appointed Damian Taylor as investment manager in the Asian Equities team. Taylor has worked in the industry for 13 years. He began his career at Goldman Sachs, and has since worked at Morgan Stanley equity business Boundary Capital. ...

AMP Capital appoints new Asian portfolio manager

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAR 2013
AMP Capital has appointed a new portfolio manager to its Asian equities desk in Hong Kong. Andy Peng will analyse the telecoms, utilities and healthcare sectors for the Pan Asia portfolio as well as consumer discretionary for the Asia ex-Greater China ...

Chinese small-and-mid caps undervalued

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 22 OCT 2012
... liquidity, and this is causing a liquidity premium," he said. Wang compared the current short-term volatility of Asian equities, which for some masks their long-term value, to the Asian financial crash that occurred a decade ago, when small and mid cap ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 21 SEP 2012
... considered important for Spain, since borrowing costs above this level are seen as unsustainably expensive. TOKYO - Asian equities plunged on news that Chinese manufacturing activity contracted again in September, adding to concerns about the economic ...