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Hedge funds lag index returns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... world has seen a downturn, but the fall over the cliff hasn't been as dramatic [for hedge funds]," he said. He said institutional investors would move away from fund of hedge fund strategies to index funds and top performing hedge fund managers. "The ...

Chronican departs Westpac

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
Longstanding Westpac Institutional Bank group executive Phil Chronican is leaving the bank after a 27-year tenure at the institution and will be replaced by current risk management group executive, Rob Whitfield. Chronican joined Westpac in 1982 and ...

AIA arises from AIG

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JUN 2009
... possible for all stakeholders and to minimise unnecessary disruption for our clients. Close consultation with our institutional partners is already well underway to ensure a seamless transition to any changes required," said Carson. The re-branding will ...

CFS GAM appoints regional MD

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... director, Australia & New Zealand. Prior to joining CFS GAM, Davison was at Russell Investments where she headed the institutional client service team. She is also the chair of the ASFA Conference committee, a member of the ASFA Investment Committee ...

GFC highlights five-year outperformers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... think and look at things but we all have the same ideas when it comes to assessing a company," he said. Tim Samway, institutional business director at Hyperion Asset Management, cited similar reasons for the fund manager's five-year performance record. ...

Costello's Future Fund career over before it started

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 22 JUN 2009
... precisely its Management Agency, operates - despite it already being, according to Rainmaker, Australia's largest institutional investor and one of the nation's fastest growing fund. For example, the board already has a chairman in former CommBank chief ...

Transition mandates to reach record highs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... been a more than 40 per cent increase in the number of pretrade inquiries globally since the start of the year. Institutional investors do pretrade inquiries to find out the costs and risks of switching managers. Mark Keleher, MTM's chief executive ...

Nicholas-Applegate closes Australian offices

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 18 JUN 2009
... based upon how to best apply our resources," she said in a statement. The move will affect super funds and other institutional investors that collectively invest around $500 million in Nicholas-Applegate strategies. But Hunter said that local investors ...

Active manager mandates to increase: Mercer

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Mercer, one of the country's largest asset consultants, is advising its institutional clients to allocate more funds with active managers to capture the one-off abnormal returns coming out of stockmarkets as they switch into recovery mode. Simon Eagleton ...

Carthona to advise on $500m insto money

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Call Carthona Agriculture the Australian company that could. Since the start of the year, institutional investors have signed up to ask for Carthona's consultancy advice on a total $500 million worth of investments. Charlie Blomfield, managing director ...