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Perennial welcomes new equities dealer

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 9 NOV 2006
Perennial Value Management has added a new equities dealer to its Australian equities team. John Murray, managing director of Perennial Value Management, said the appointment of Tea Starr as equities dealer would underpin Perennial's execution capabilities. ...

Schroders casts net outside MSCI World

Financial advisers looking for a global equities fund with a twist should look no further than Schroders Global Active Value, a fund that invests in shares outside the traditional global benchmark MSCI World Index. Schroders chief executive, Greg Cooper ...

Back the winning horse, all the time

... whether the investor chose it or not. 'Optimiser 4' basically works on three multi-asset 'investment profiles' namely: equities-biased, commodities-biased or balanced. The equities-biased investment profile invests 60 per cent to equities, 20 per cent ...

Keating laments missed super opportunities

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 30 OCT 2006
... with that money? My answer is put it in [individual] savings. This government puts it in a fund and lets it invest in equities [in its own name]." If the money had been put into individual super accounts the community would already have enough personal ...

Legg Mason launches US equities fund Down Under

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
Legg Mason has launched a new value oriented US equities fund for Australian wholesale investors. Legg Mason Capital Management, the value investing subsidiary of Legg Mason Inc, will manage the Legg Mason US Value Trust along with the US$61 billion ...

MIR scores $100m from Catholic Super and Retirement

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 25 OCT 2006
... $100 million mandate from the Catholic Superannuation and Retirement Fund (CSRF) to be invested in the MIR Australian Equities Fund. Existing CSRF Australian equities mandates with Perpetual and Maple-Brown Abbott will be realigned on the back of the ...

QSuper ploughs $2b into derivatives and swaps

... to invest a greater allocation of their portfolio in the sector. He explained that super funds would usually invest in equities to match their members' future income needs because equity earnings generally grow in line with inflation. "But that's still ...

BT scores another TelstraSuper mandate

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 19 OCT 2006
BT Financial Group has been awarded a $100 million concentrated Australian equities mandate from TelstraSuper. TelstraSuper already has mandates with BT for cash and the BT Global Return Fund. Peter Mitchell, BT's senior institutional business development ...

More countries sign up for REITs

... to expect out of public REITs." REITs provide a similar structure for investing in real estate as managed funds do for equities. They are popular with investors looking for regular income through property without buying the property assets themselves. ...

Shrinking portfolios add risk

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2006
The biggest trend in the Australian equities sector over recent years has been the concentration of portfolios, according to ratings and research houses, who say investors should be mindful of changes in the risk-return relationship. According to InvestorWeb's ...