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Pengana wins $66 million in mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 OCT 2009
Cuesuper, Combined Fund and Pinnacle Superannuation have poured a collective $66 million into the Pengana Global Bond Fund. The three Melbourne-based superannuation funds have allocated the mandates over the past three months, with Combined Fund allocating ...

Rejoice for rates have risen

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
Talk of the town. That's the RBA of course. At a time when other G-20 nations continue to debate the growth alphabet of their own recovery, Australia's central bank declared, 'no mas!' 'No mas' need for keeping interest rates at the emergency level ...

Murphy takes over the reins at BNY Mellon

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 SEP 2009
... marketing roles at Prudential and Citibank. "The sophistication of the Australian market has led to an uptake of specialist alpha generating investment ideas that provide strong opportunities for out product set," said Jon Little, vice chair at BNP Mellon ...

The long and short of bulls and bears

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 25 SEP 2009
Yesterday, I engaged in ping-pong with three of the fresh thinkers in the investment industry. Email ping-pong, that is. Discussions of Stella (the beer), cognacs and cigars aside, D.R. Beare - not his real name - opened serve with an email bagging ...

State Street wins QIC mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... for QIC, a leading Australian institutional fund manager. For the first time, QIC has made its Global Fixed Interest (GFI) Alpha Fund available to investors outside Australia through Ireland's QIF structure. "In making our first move outside Australia ...

BlackRock tops multi-sector review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... Class D and BlackRock Moderate Balanced Fund CI D. A Standard & Poor's statement said the funds benefited from portable alpha strategies that allow the manager to source investment strategies and teams worldwide while diversifying the active risk. Sheela ...

Of population growth and surpluses

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 21 SEP 2009
Since we're still into discussions of the alphabet these days, did anyone notice Australian Federal Treasurer Wayne Swan mention the 'S' word last week? It was during his address to formally launch the Australian Institute for Population Ageing Research ...

Industry awards top hedge funds in 2009

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
... Australian Hedge Fund of the Year Winner - Fortitude Capital Absolute Return Trust Finalist - BlackRock Asset Allocation Alpha Fund - Class D Finalist - Kohinoor Series Two Fund Contribution to the Australian Hedge Fund Industry John Currie, Partner ...

Playing chicken with tyres

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
Don't look now but the debate as to what letter of the alphabet the global recovery will take - U, V or W - could all turn out to be wrong. It could be an L with the horizontal part of the letter longer and downward sloping. Trust politicians to try ...

Tax and dividend boost at OptiMix

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2009
... "This tax and dividend optimisation strategy aims to fill an important gap that results when investment managers pursue alpha returns. TDOS is specifically designed to optimise the weights of stocks that pay tax effective dividends," said Emmanuel Calligeris ...