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AMP Capital Investors expands fixed income team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
AMP Capital Investors has appointed senior portfolio manager Sonia Baillie, formerly from Nomura, to the fixed income team as incumbent Andrew Lally joins the Australian equities team. The firm has also expanded the fixed income team with two new roles ...

More planners bypass managed funds: study

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 17 AUG 2010
Fund managers are put on notice in a recent investment study that found a growing number of planners are placing their clients' funds into direct shares, ETFs, REITs and SMAs, leaving only a fraction of inflows into traditional managed funds. The survey ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
The Australian stock market has received a mixed lead from offshore markets, with Wall Street closing lower, other markets also generally lower, and oil prices weaker. Metals prices ended higher, though. At 0703 AEST on the Sydney Futures Exchange ...

UBS property fund gets three stars

S&P RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has assigned its three-star 'new' rating to the UBS Property Securities Fund. The ratings house placed the fund 'On Hold' in October 2009 when its co-portfolio managers resigned and management was transitioned to the ...

MLC drops Challenger for Resolution

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
... cent," said the ratings firm. In response to the changes, Challenger said the firm is confident John Longo can manage the REIT portfolio. "It's not unusual for mandate changes to occur when there is personnel turnover. We're confident John Longo and ...

CPPIB refines bid for Intoll

ASX RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
Three weeks since the Canadian Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) announced plans to buy Sydney-based toll road operator Intoll, the fund has come back to the table with a proposal to buy the entire issued capital of the firm. CPPIB submitted an ...

Deutsche strategy head joins Citi

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 27 JUL 2010
Citigroup has appointed former Deutsche Bank executive, Tony Brennan, as head of equity market strategy for Australia and New Zealand. He joins from Deutsche Bank where he held a similar position. Brennan will report to Bruce Rolph, head of Citi Investment ...

Vanguard tops LPT sector review

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JUL 2010
... Vanguard Property Securities Index fund receiving a highly recommended rating. The Australian Real Estate Investment Trust (A-REIT) sector posted a total return of more than 37 per cent for the year to May but fund manager performance differed widely. ...

Perennial ramps up international business strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 5 JUL 2010
... strategies are highly competitive compared with similar products overseas, including the global real estate investment trust (REIT) business run by Stephen Hayes, head of property. He said its operations have gradually expanded to allow its managers ...

State Street win $10 billion in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... the funds will be invested in an Australian Equities Index mandate, an International Equities Index mandate and a Global REIT Index mandate. The $10 billion represents more than a third of QSuper's $28 billion in funds under management. A key feature ...