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Avoca patient on industrials evolution

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAY 2011
... are bad for the next three years, it doesn't stop us investing in a sector if we see value there," said Campbell. The former UBS managers said the risk return profile of industrials is clearly favourable over resources, noting that many Australian industrial ...

Goldman Sachs downgraded but fixed interest pays

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
... managers BlackRock and Vanguard and the benchmark agnostic Vianova, S&P said that all managers provided returns above the UBS Composite Bond Index benchmark in 2010, net of fees. "Investors are paying for active returns and for 2010 have been receiving ...

UBS boosts Aust Fixed Income team

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAY 2011
UBS Global Asset Management names it head of credit research for Asia Pacific and new portfolio manager within its Australian Fixed Income team. Former Senior Credit Analyst at Societe General in London, Ben Squire has joined UBS as the new head of ...

ASX fines broker for bad behaviour

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAY 2011
... were fined. The other firms were Bell Potter Securities, Commonwealth Securities, MF Global Australia, Morrison Securities, UBS AG, Macquarie Equities and Australian Investment Exchange. The ASX will continue to discipline brokers for breaches of the ...

UBS expanding Asian fund business

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
Colin Lunn will join UBS to lead the bank's fund administration business development out of Hong Kong, as it bids to enhance its asset services offering in the Asia Pacific region. Lunn recently resigned from HSBC, where he was head of business development ...

New index pinpoints volatility, products on way

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
Standard & Poor's has developed a new risk-control index to maintain volatility of 12 per cent, with UBS to deliver new structured products based upon it, it said today. Volatility on the S&P/ASX 200 stocks had reached 23 per cent over the past three ...

Ex UBS managers resurface for Bennelong small caps fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
Bennelong Funds Management has joined forces with former UBS portfolio managers John Campbell and Jeremy Bendeich to launch an Australian small caps fund. Campbell and Bendeich, who have been on gardening leave since departing the UBS Small Companies ...

Fund managers follow the herd

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... Equity Growth Fund, was placed on "hold", the second lowest rating. In other ratings news, Standard & Poor's has kept the UBS Australian Small Companies Fund on hold after it appointed a new manager to the fund, replacing two members of the three-man ...

UBS lost fund finds a manager

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
UBS Global Asset Management has found a new portfolio manager for the Small Companies Fund, left in limbo after two members of the three-man management team left earlier this month. Victor Gomes, most recently a portfolio manager at Selector Funds Management ...

BlackRock provides advisers with super SMA

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 19 APR 2011
... professionally managed portfolios including BlackRock, iShares and SPDR exchange traded funds, Ausbil Dexia, BT, Fortis, Perennial and UBS. BNP Paribas Australian Hybrid and Fixed Income offerings and Lonsec Balanced, Growth and High Growth Direct model ...