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Nestle shuffles asset allocations

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... to 15 per cent, a new 3 per cent allocation to international property ($A hedged), a five per cent cut in Aussie fixed interest, and zero in cash from a previous 10 per cent. The fund also axed its 4 per cent direct property stake and pumped 30 per cent ...

S&P recognises industry best

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 5 SEP 2008
... - Emerging Markets sector award. Meanwhile, AXA Australia won the Australian Mortgages category, PIMCO won the Fixed Interest sector award and ING Clarion Real Estate Securities took out the listed property category. Standard & Poor's also recognised ...

Frontier's $97bn FUA in safe hands

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 SEP 2008
... Hill said that their portfolios, which varies depending on the client, are broadly overweight in cash relative to fixed interest, a little bit underweight in international equities and have a neutral weighting in Australian equities. Over the short term ...

NAB Group Super axes cash plus

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... Group Super has morphed its cash plus option into a pure cash option - closing the strategy's previous exposure to fixed interest, Australian shares and property. The board Trustee's decision to change the corporate fund's cash plus option into a pure ...

Future Fund is $652m richer

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
... in developing markets. Just over $5 billion has been invested in Australian equities and a lower $4.1 billion in fixed interest. A much lower amount of $768 million is in global property and a tiny $41 million in private equity. That means the next two ...

QIC's new asset class a hot commodity

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 AUG 2008
... markets such as fixed income and equities are starting to behave like each other. The QIC Red Paper found although fixed interest and equity market assets are historically recognised as portfolio diversifiers, the recent market downturn revealed their ...

Challenger buys 30pc stake in ex-CS boutique

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2008
Challenger has snapped up 30 per cent of a soon to be launched fixed interest boutique headed by former head of fixed interest at Credit Suisse Asset Management Australia, Ben Alexander. Challenger will buy one third of the new boutique, expected to ...

Credit investors put bond issuers on notice

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 AUG 2008
... it called in its lawyers to confirm its right to gain access to documents supporting the information memorandum. Fixed interest portfolio manager at Aberdeen Asset Management, Nick Bishop, is an investor in Lane Cove Tunnel bonds. "At the time the bonds ...

Defeat death taxes when merging accounts

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 AUG 2008
... strategy for the superannuation fund and then orient the new account to more conservative investments, such as fixed interest. Place investments with the greater capital growth potential into the partially tax exempt account, said Partners Superannuation ...

QIC fixed interest bucks trend

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... Traditional absolute return funds often rely on their ability to manage physical securities - but the QIC Global Fixed Interest Fund is going against mainstream thinking by exploiting opportunities with no correlation to major asset classes. QIC, which ...