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Microequities AM appoints former Macquarie treasurer

HARRY PAGE  |  THURSDAY, 23 JAN 2014
... services industry for over 25 year and spent 22 of them at Macquarie. Established in 2005 as an independent investment research house, Microequities has grown into an asset manager that focuses primarily on microcaps. Microequities' chief executive Carlos ...

SPAA questions 'free lunch' SMSF service

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... the service may limit the range of assets in which the SMSF can invest. He urged potential SMSF trustees to do careful research before starting an SMSF. SPAA's membership includes a large contingent of financial advisers who specialise in helping clients ...

Prime Value AM expands investment team

HARRY PAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2014
... appointed former Standard & Poor's James Gunn as a new senior investment analyst. Gunn's role will be to provide bottom-up research including financial analysis, modelling of companies, company and industry report writing. Gunn was previously Standard ...

Artisan awarded Morningstar US International Manager of the Year

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2014
... financially sturdy firms trading at significant discounts to their estimate of value," Morningstar director of global fund research Scott Burns said. Morgan Stanley was awarded 2013 Fund Manager of the Year, PIMCO obtained the Fixed-Income Fund Manager ...

Is 'unbundling' the future of broking?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2014
The unbundling of research and execution services would result in a more efficient and transparent broking industry, according to BestEx director Phillip Weinberg. BestEx was founded in 2012, and was the first firm in Australia to offer execution-only ...

Resolution Capital celebrates 10-year anniversary

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014
... portfolio managers of Resolution Capital, added: "Key to our investment success is a genuine emphasis on proprietary research with a focus on balance sheet strength and corporate governance. "Avoiding permanent impairment of capital is the critical objective ...

Women hedgies outperform but overlooked

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014

Realindex outperforms as it passes five-year milestone

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2014
... fundamentals can play a core part in building an appropriately diversified portfolio," he said. Realindex uses its US partner Research Affiliates' RAFI Fundamental Index methodology in the construction of its portfolios, which weights companies by their ...

UBS launches Australian dividend ETF

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 JAN 2014
UBS Global Asset Management has launched the UBS IQ Research Preferred Australian Dividend Fund, to Australian investors. The new smart beta product, which trades under the ASX code DIV, aims to provide access to sustainable income via the distributions ...

Zurich appoints national head of sales

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2014
Zurich Financial Services Australia (Zurich) has appointed Andy Marshall head of Sales Strategies and Research, Life Risk. He will be responsible for developing, promoting and delivering Zurich's life insurance proposition in conjunction with distribution ...