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Active managing pays during market correction: Mercer

... quantitative services at Mercer Investment Consulting, said of the recent report, "Has there been a particular style that's done pretty well [over the period]? There's no distinctive pattern although of course, fund managers in the overseas shares category ...

MLIM funds on hold but Rock solid

... "Clearly when there's some change, the research houses will have to look at how those changes impact the funds. But we're pretty excited with the global small cap going forward." He explained, "We've now got a team of ten people whereas previously we ...

US pension fund wealth bigger than individual wealth

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 APR 2006
... can and will be injured by some of the practices that make those private investors and companies profit. And that is a pretty profound conflict of interest," Greider explained. Being too passive had allowed some of the recent catastrophic corporate scandals ...

S&P downgrades CDOs after automotive default

... rise." "The biggest driver in ratings is the underlying health of corporate credit, and so far in the CDO market we saw pretty good performance reflecting the underlying market," she added.

Margin lenders bank on reputation not just rates

... growth over the last six years. The size of the market was $4 billion back in 1999 and it's about $18 billion now so that's pretty solid growth and a lot of that's been driven by both financial planners and stockbrokers doing more in this space," said ...

Lonsdale close to 110-planner target, adds risk specialists

... 110-strong network of financial planning practices in two to three years thanks to its recent spate of additions. "We're pretty close to 80 financial planner firms and there are about 174 advisers that use our services," said Lonsdale's chief executive ...

Let's get ethical: Hunter Hall

... Jack Lowenstein, Hunter Hall's deputy chairman and member of the investment team, credits their outperformance to some pretty good calls in the past three years including ramping up their weighting initially in the UK then in Japan and Korea. He also ...

INVESCO advances Australia flair

... trading strategies. In contrast, he concluded, "Something like us with low turnover and high alpha generation would stack up pretty well on an after-tax basis."

Bravura appoints former BT head of tech as chief tech officer

... grown from 75 people 12 months ago to 175 now, and we expect to be about 250 by June, so the company's going through a pretty rapid expansion," Dunstan says. This expansion could soon translate to a public listing. Dunstan says IPO speculation already ...

Vision and CARE merger 'talks' to tackle fund differences

... we can enhance or expand services and reduce costs. If you can reduce costs as well as expanding services, you are doing pretty darn well in the competition stakes." He added, "We've both been looking at that so it makes sense in a lot of ways for us ...