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Northern Trust exposes fixed income assets

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... yield data to boost precision. "Increasingly, the trend is for asset managers to provide more performance data to institutional investors and, importantly, to be able to explain where performance is coming from - and where it isn't," said Jim Trotter ...

RBC Dexia scores two

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... Vontobel AG, an international Swiss private bank, specialising in asset management for sophisticated private and institutional clients. The second win for RBC Dexia is South African fund manager Investec Asset Management, which selected the custodian ...

Challenger and AXA sign up to Liquidnet

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
... Fraser, Challenger Financial Services head of trading, said Liquidnet demonstrated it could deliver access to real institutional block liquidity efficiently. Meanwhile, Hei Seki, AXA Rosenberg Investment Management head of trading, said the block trading ...

State Street's private equity hits $110bn

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
Rising institutional investor demand for private equity assets has resulted in State Street's private equity fund service's assets under administration to increase by 20 per cent to $110 billion since the division was formed last year. Jack Klinck ...

Advisers snub commission-free ETFs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... among financial advisers. He said one of the reasons behind the lacklustre of support for ETFs is because overall, institutional platforms are not well equipped to provide direct share trading. But not everyone is shying away from the sector. Rick Di ...

Caledonia updates with HiPortfolio

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... functionality designed to suit companies of all sizes. HiPortfolio has been installed across more than 550 retail and institutional investment managers worldwide. "HiPortfolio is certainly suitable for deployment in investment organizations of varying ...

Aon signs UN PRI

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 AUG 2008
... "commitment" to tackle ESG issues. "It aligns Aon's consideration of ESG issues with a recognised global framework of institutional investors and with broader objectives of society," he said. Australian companies are no strangers to the UN PRI. The country ...

Watson Wyatt hires ex Aon consultant

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 19 AUG 2008
... after previously working at Aon Consulting in Australia and the UK. In this role he will be responsible for advising institutional clients on a range of investment issues including strategic asset allocation, manager structure and selection. This appointment ...

Winton fund returns 23.5pc

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
... hefty 23.5 per cent in returns over a one year period. The Winton Global Alpha Fund, open to financial advisers and institutional investors in Australia through the Macquarie Professional Series, has generated returns of 23.5 per cent for the 12 month ...

TSG adds 11 to portfolio

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 18 AUG 2008
... did not disclose any earnings amount. TSG chief executive Mark Euvrard flagged the dealership's independence of institutional ties and alignment of its business framework to support its advisers as the basis for continuing enquiries and new recruits ...