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Platinum holds steady in upswing

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
Platinum International fund, the largest global equities fund in Australia with more than $7.6 billion in FUM, ranks as one of the top three performers in global equities in the year to April, but Platinum chief investment officer Kerr Neilson, still ...

VicSuper seeds $150m low carb fund

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2009
Super fund VicSuper continues to take the front step in addressing the global carbon emissions challenge when it awarded Vanguard an initial $150 million mandate to invest in stocks that generate the same returns as the market but with half the carbon ...

Thrift is the new cool: K2

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2009
From high-speed railway to high-tech alarms, fund manager K2 Asset Management banks on stocks that will flourish in the face of a global recession. Nick Griffin, the group's head of international strategy, said that investors should tap into mega-trends ...

BNY Mellon boutiques win mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 8 MAY 2009
BNY Mellon Asset Management's boutique firms Newton and Walter Scott have been awarded global equity mandates on behalf of Japan's public pension fund, the $1.9 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF). Following a review of its existing fund ...

AXA Rosenberg launches EM strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
AXA Rosenberg Investment Management Asia Pacific has released the Global Emerging Markets Equity Trust. Sydney based, Kathryn McDonald, head of investments Australia/New Zealand at AXA Rosenberg, said the firm's research found a strong relationship ...

Risk of indigestion

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 20 APR 2009
Whoa boy! Take it easy. How many times have we been admonished by our elders to chew our food slowly right in the middle of chomping down a big chunk of that juicy, tender, savoury steak? Not once, not twice but many, many times. Because it is the me ...

HFA regains Lonsec rating

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2009
Lonsec has reinstated HFA Asset Management's International Shares fund 'recommended' rating. The fund had been on 'fund watch' since January 20 because of "uncertainty surrounding the parent company, HFA Holdings". Those concerns have since been allayed ...

J.P. Morgan backs Chinese stocks

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 14 APR 2009
Chinese stocks are right for the picking according to J.P. Morgan Asset Management. According to the firm's statement, J.P. Morgan Asset Management believes MSCI China valuations are "very close" to their lowest levels either on a price to earnings ...

US firm launches hedge fund rep ETF

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
US investors can now access a liquid and transparent hedge fund replication strategy after IndexIQ launched the IQ Hedge Multi-Strategy Tracker ETF on the New York Stock Exchange. The New York based firm's exchange traded fund (ETF) seeks to replicate ...

MSCI Barra ups liquidity reviews

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 MAR 2009
MSCI Barra is proposing to review liquidity across MSCI Global Investable Market Index constituents across developed and emerging markets on a quarterly basis instead of half yearly as part of the firm's plan to deal with the credit crisis. In addition ...