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AQR wins $330m-plus insto mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
Less than three months after AQR launched its Global Enhanced Equity Fund, the firm has received $337 million in mandates from three institutional investors - and is well on track to reach the $620 million mark. Jeff Dunn, head of AQR's Australian institutional ...

Ipac boosts insurance-related investments

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
Ipac Asset Management plans to have as much as a 25 per cent allocation within its alternatives growth portfolio devoted to insurance-related investments, and backs the strategy with a $50 million seed investment into a newly-launched catastrophe insurance ...

ETFs hit trillion dollar milestone

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
The global exchange traded fund (ETF) industry hit the US$1 trillion mark this month and product providers predict the launch of fixed income ETFs this year and next will drive the sector's mainstream appeal. At the end of July 2010, the global ETF ...

Running of the bulls

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 3 AUG 2010
Ain't this just a swell way to start a fresh month? I can almost hear equity markets around the globe singing, "Tonight I'm gonna have myself a real good time I feel alive and the world it's turning inside out Yeah! I'm floating around in ecstasy So ...

Boring

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
Another day, another flat, uneventful day on Wall Street. Reports out overnight were mostly positive but these did not stop profit-taking on The Street. Good news on the US jobs front... but not good enough. Initial claims for unemployment insurance ...

Aubrey opens local fund

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
Scotland-based Aubrey Capital Management has opened a local fund that mirrors its UK-based global equities strategy through its partner, Treasury Group. The Aubrey Global Conviction fund is a highly concentrated portfolio of 40-50 international stocks. ...

Ambassador wins Copper Rock mandate in Oz

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2010
Ambassador Funds Management Services has entered into an arrangement to represent US-based manager, Copper Rock Capital Partners, in Australia and New Zealand. Copper Rock, headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, provides growth equity strategies for ...

Perennial invests in oil equipment stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 JUL 2010
Perennial Investment Partners' international equities division has invested in oil and gas drilling equipment companies ahead of a predicted worldwide oil rig upgrade following the BP disaster. Clay Carter, head of international equities at Perennial ...

Looking good

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JUL 2010
With Wall Street's attention turned to profits, profits and profits - and strong ones at that - the celebration in the equity markets rolls. The Street turned in another strong performance while we were sleeping - and so did Europe. A reaction from ...

Vanguard to release 19 more ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 28 JUN 2010
US-based Vanguard plans to provide 19 exchange traded funds (ETFs) across FTSE, MSCI, Russell and Standard & Poor's indices that it says will be cheaper than existing products. The index fund provider is developing eight equity funds and ETFs using ...