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ETFs have proved their worth in crisis: iShares

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAR 2012
... height of the GFC to demonstrate the products' liquidity and durability. iShares yesterday launched three products tracking the UBS Composite Bond, Treasury and Government Inflation indices. Product providers often name liquidity, flexibility, transparency ...

What Wen wants, Wen gets, when Wen wants

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 13 MAR 2012
... Nikkei-225 and the S&P/ASX 200 both fell by 0.4% - not outside the realm of their daily heartbeats. As for commodities, the UBS Bloomberg Constant Maturity Commodity Index dropped by a mammoth, gargantuan, heart-stopping 0.3% last night. All because ...

Aus fixed income ETF providers talk up offerings

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 MAR 2012
... has confirmed they are looking into fixed income ETFs in the Australian market. iShares has announced they will track the UBS fixed income indices, although Standard & Poors, used by State Street for their other ETFs has recently launched a range of ...

CIOs see no let up in European debt crisis

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAR 2012
... chief investment officers represented by the Financial Services Council (FSC), including ANZ Wealth, Perpetual, BlackRock, UBS, BT, Schroders, Alliance Bernstein and Colonial First State, found sentiment fell in the last quarter despite an improved outlook ...

Austerity's political pay-off

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
... require courageous actions from politicians that run against the grain, according to head of global investment solutions at UBS. Deleveraging will mean years of slowed growth coupled with structurally higher unemployment rates, lower provision of safety ...

UBS names ING IM transfers

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 FEB 2012
Six ING Investment Management staff will move over to UBS Global Asset Management from April 1 once the integration of the firm into UBS is complete on March 30. These include Joel Fleming, Australian equities small companies, David Scott and Patrick ...

OnePath changes in wake of UBS INGIM purchase

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 27 FEB 2012
... OnePath has appointed new investment managers and renamed a number of its investment and diversified investment funds. The UBS purchase of ING Investment Management (INGIM) last year means the ING IM name can no longer be used after March 2012. Former ...

ANZ acquires OptiMix from UBS

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 FEB 2012
ANZ Bank has officially acquired the OptiMix multi-manager business unit from UBS Global Asset Management, formerly managed by ING Investment Management (Australia), as the bank expands its strategy. UBS Global AM acquired OptiMix in June 2011 as part ...

AMP Capital expands Aus Equities team

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  MONDAY, 20 FEB 2012
... from AllianceBernstein last October and will now stay on full time. Rayner also has international investment experience at UBS Brinson and JP Morgan Investment, and will continue to run a core growth strategy at AMP. Andy Gardner takes up a portfolio ...

Synchron NextGen success firm expands to Sydney

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
... private wealth management firm, Wealth Enhancers is recruiting for their new Sydney-based boutique office to be headed by former UBS equity trader Wade Tink. Tink, a graduate of Synchron's NextGen program, left UBS to join Wealth Enhancers last year ...