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MySuper puts focus on active tax management investing

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013

Instos take on risk monitoring tools

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
Institutional investors haven't been rewarded for taking risk in global investment markets since 2008, and have now turned to more intense monitoring to minimize further risks. Focusing on risk in this way gives institutional investors insights that ...

MLC awards mandate to US fund BlueMountain

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 15 APR 2013
A private investment fund run by a former JPMorgan Chase & Co executive has won its first Australian mandate. MLC will invest into the BlueMountain Capital's BlueMountain Credit Alternatives (BMCA) fund, but would not comment on the mandate's value. ...

Active management a 2% tax drag

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAR 2013
The high turnover of active managed funds generates tax inefficiencies that can drag portfolios by as much as 2%, according to global asset manager Parametric. Recent legislation requiring superannuation funds have an after-tax investment objective ...

Falling BRICs

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAR 2013
... delivered for our viewing, hearing and reading pleasure yesterday. For after all the brouhaha about the leadership spill, the ALP's left with nothing but the haha. It made me a firm believer in women's intuition though. After all the brouhaha, the majority ...

SSgA launches low-risk global equity fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Active management is a tough game and picking active managers is just as tough, warns State Street Global Advisers' Lochiel Crafter. The head of investments for the Asia Pacific at SSgA says that investors are often disappointed by the returns generated ...

SSgA launches global equity ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
State Street Global Advisers (SSgA) has announced the launch of two new exchange traded funds (ETFs), giving Aussie investors cheap access to international equities. The SPDR S&P World ex-Australia ETF will begin trading on the ASX in the coming weeks ...

Fund stalwarts draw $6bn in Aus equities mandates

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
Of the $10 billion worth of mandates handed out to Australian equity managers in the past 12 months, a staggering $5.97 billion has been given to just three investment houses, data from Rainmaker Information can reveal. The three fund managers, which ...

Former Astarra director permanently banned from fin services

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAR 2013
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) announced today that it has permanently banned former Astarra Asset Management director Eugene Liu from providing financial services for failing to comply with financial services laws. Liu ...

PineBridge pitches quant solution to super funds

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2013
PineBridge Investments has been meeting with financial institutions in the hope of bringing a cheap alternative to active management to Australian investors. Its Quantitative Enhanced Indexing investment solution is designed to be less expensive than ...