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Oil sours economic rally

MARK STORY  |  FRIDAY, 25 JAN 2008
A recently released PricewaterhouseCoopers survey reveals that senior executives have replaced terrorism with risk of energy supply as a primary concern in 2008. Leading oil-importing economies that share these concerns meet today in the Swiss resort ...

HFA clears up MFS links

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2008
... does not have any investments in HFA nor are any MFS employees members of the HFA board. However, HFA said MFS was a "passive shareholder" in HFA. The HFA Annual Report 2007: Experiencing the Edge, which was released in September last year, reported ...

New partner for First Quadrant

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
First Quadrant, an investment management firm specialising in active equity management and global macro strategies, has appointed Jia Ye as a new partner in the company. Ye, who currently holds the position of chief investment strategist, will remain ...

Better beta through fundamental indexing

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 10 DEC 2007
... that one of the ironies in investors wanting diversified sources of beta is they still don't diversify how they get these passive exposures. For example, through traditional indexing, their returns are reliant on the market cap weighting of the underlying ...

Fund managers must raise benchmarks

... above-benchmark returns but to keep raising those benchmarks, said Paul Fiani, head of Australian equities boutique fund Integrity. Passive managers have grown in popularity as one survey after another show that after taking out the fees and volatility ...

ING IM tailored to suit

... step up their investment style a notch. For example, gone are the days when the debate centered on debt and equity or passive versus active because institutions and other investors are more interested to talk about alpha/beta, alternatives, private equity ...

Currency hedging key to international returns

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 OCT 2007
... quartile international equity portfolio." "It's actually way more important than whether you decided to have active or passive management on your international equities," he said. He said with Australian super funds currently hedging 47 per cent against ...

To tailor or not to tailor

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 OCT 2007
... the model to the client's needs." As a result, he said the core/satellite model, where planners put money into a core of passive funds and allocate a fraction of the portfolio into satellite or active managers, could have traction, as it would mean planners ...

World's biggest fund eyes Aus resources

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 31 AUG 2007
China's newly created state-owned investment company could soon start targeting Australian mining companies to shore up the country's resource supplies, according to AMP chief economist Shane Oliver. The company, created through a special one-off bond ...

Active fund tax burden costs 4pc of returns

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2007
... managed from a tax-efficiency perspective," said Bowerman. In separate news, QIC awarded Vanguard a whopping $3 billion in passive mandates partly because of the index fund's focus on after-tax returns.