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Cambridge Strategy opens shop in Sydney

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
London-based active currency alpha and overlay manager The Cambridge Strategy has opened a Sydney office to conduct research and portfolio management. The new office will be led by Chris Udy, who has worked with the firm in its London office as director ...

Westpac moves to wholly own Ascalon

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
... business with the biggest FUM in the street, our businesses will be small, simply structured where their team will deliver alpha," he said. St.George Bank founded Ascalon Capital in 2000 and the bank has become part of the Westpac Group following the ...

Super funds to take the reins off bond managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... said signals from the Reserve Bank of Australia of rising interest rates means fixed income investment managers could add alpha if they invested outside the realm of the benchmark. "We're still seeing good returns in some sectors, especially in the credit ...

Priced, but not for a V

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
There's no point in us lurking around Wall Street this month. All the good news has been priced in. Perhaps. Perhaps not. This may well be - as I've discussed yesterday - the curse of September at work, where the line of least resistance is to give ...

Boost allocation to top active managers: report

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
... Australian equities at Barclays Global Investors, found active managers will have some of the best opportunities to add alpha in the next one to three years than in recent history. "There is no doubt the financial crisis has made markets less efficient ...

Asset completes investment review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... equities investments are now managed by five investment managers, four of which are new additions namely: Martin Currie Global Alpha, Lazard Global Thematic, Schroder Value & Quality Funds, and Franklin Global Equity as the new managers. Bernstein Global ...

Capital protection should be core to satellite

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 28 AUG 2009
... tailor-made capital protection strategy, said an asset design consultant for planners and SMSFs. Tony Rumble, founder of Alpha Structured Investments, designed financial products with capital protection in 2005, a time when the bull market would have ...

U V W X Y Z

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
What's this? We're back into discussing the alphabet soup of the coming recovery? Would the global economy's recovery take the shape of a V? Will it be a U or a W? My oh my Virginia, I'm getting tired and very ill with all these discussions. For me ...

BlackRock tops diversified funds review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 AUG 2009
... the managers assessed by the ratings firm now include alternative assets in their portfolios. These include hedge funds, alpha import strategies, private equity, infrastructure and global resources. In addition, the review found several managers from ...

SMA ratings bring clarity for advisers

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2009
... Aviva Investors Core Opportunities, Aviva Investors Dividend Builder, Goldman Sachs JBWere Core Australian Equities and High Alpha Long Term Opportunity (UBS GAM) offerings. The ratings house's research strategy involved two main components - first was ...