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Fidelity adds senior investment director

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 FEB 2013
Fidelity Worldwide Investment has appointed Michael Bargholz as senior investment director for Australia. An industry veteran of more than 25 years, Bargholz's appointment to the newly created position is aimed at adding strength to the investment team ...

Frontier markets poised for strong 2013

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 1 FEB 2013
Frontier markets have begun 2013 strongly and will outperform their emerging markets counterparts over the next 12 months, according to HSBC Global Research. The MSCI Frontier markets index - which includes economies such as Nigeria, Qatar and Vietnam ...

NSW State Super appoints investment head

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 31 JAN 2013
NSW State Super has appointed Mark O'Brien as general manager of investments. O'Brien has more than 30 year's investment experience and joins an investment team which managers over $35.8 billion of assets on behalf of members and the NSW Government. ...

Mac Private Wealth forced to rectify serious deficiencies

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JAN 2013
Macquarie Private Wealth has given the Australian Securities and Investments Commission an enforceable undertaking to right recurring compliance deficiencies dating back more than five years. The regulator's review of compliance systems and client files ...

Insurers to exit risky fixed income positions: BlackRock

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
Insurers will re-examine their allocations to fixed income assets in 2013 as low interest rates put pressure on profitability, according to BlackRock's global insurance outlook. David Lomas, head of BlackRock's financial institutions group, expects ...

RBF shakes up fund with two new mandates

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
Tasmania's public sector superannuation fund, Retirement Benefits Fund (RBF) has mandated two new fund managers following an extensive restructure of its $1.1 billion Australian equities portfolio. The new structure has made it possible for the fund ...

Non-mining sectors must pick up the growth mantle

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2013
Australian economists agree that how the country's economy transitions from mining-driven investment to other areas of growth will be the single biggest issue of 2013. Speaking this morning at Financial Standard's annual Chief Economist Forum in Sydney ...

New COO part of expansion plans at Fidelity Australia

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
Fidelity Worldwide Investments has appointed former United States Army officer and head of group Strategy at Perpetual Eric Wang as its new chief operating officer in Australia. Wang joins the global fund manager from wealth management consultancy Sunstone ...

Cash rate falls good for property

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
If Australia's cash rate drops further a growing number of investors are expected to be attracted to unlisted property funds in the search better yields, said a property manager. General manager of property, mortgages and capital markets at Australian ...

Aussie equities to rise another 20% in 2013: Fidelity

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2013
Cheap valuations, high dividend yields, a US and Chinese recovery and even history are on the side of Australian share market investors this year, according to Fidelity head of Australian equities Paul Taylor. With dividends reinvested, the Australian ...