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Active management in govt bonds fails to deliver; Navigator

... index performance replicating funds." The Navigator report mirrors recent Financial Standard research of the Australian equities sector, which revealed that actively managed funds often fail to deliver significantly better performance than their passive ...

HSBC head of equities calls stumps

In a sudden departure, HSBC Asset Management said its head of Australian equities, Robert Hook, will leave the company at the end of the month, prompting fund ratings company ASSIRT Research to put HSBC's Australian share funds on hold and sharply criticise ...

Super contributions up 15.8% to March 04; APRA

... classes, assets in cash and deposits showed the largest rate of increase, growing by 6% over the quarter, followed by equities and unit trusts, which grew by 5.3%. Directly invested assets grew by 5.4%. Superannuation contributions for the year to March ...

Macquarie Bank launches Macquarie Securities in Asia

AAP  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2004
... activities around the region,\" Moore said. \"The focus for Macquarie Securities is to strengthen the existing Asian equities platform, add more facets to the business and bring clients an even wider range of innovative products.\" Macquarie Bank said ...

UBS to launch global property fund

... superannuation savings. "Investors want to have a diversified property portfolio in much the same way as they have a diversified equities portfolio," said UBS Global managing director John Snowden. "If you're a very large institution in Australia, you ...

Aust confidence in equities drop in second half, survey shows

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 22 JUL 2004
The latest MasterIndex of Consumer Confidence survey, released on Wednesday, showed that while consumers were generally optimistic on issues such as quality of life and income for the second half of 2004, there had been a considerable drop in confidence ...

Macquarie invests $40mln in four new hedge and specialist funds

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2004
... established a new business, Macquarie Newton Specialist Funds Management, using people who previously worked on its proprietary equities desk to manage the new funds after investors demanded \"absolute returns\". Division director Cathy Kovacs said the ...

InTech appoint Hugh Dougherty head of research

... starting as a economist with the Reserve Bank of Australia, to head of research for BT Stockbroking, then as Australian equities portfolio manager at BT Funds Management. Dougherty also has experience working at portfolio manager at AMP Investments ...

Goldman Sachs JBWere appoint Cooke new CIO.

... feels he can leave with a strong team in place." Cooke will work will the other department heads, Marc Harrison (head of equities), Tony O\'Shea (head of fixed interest) and Nick Ferres (investment strategist), reporting to managing director Ian Ward-Ambler. ...

Investment managers add value: Mercer

... 3.5% overweight in Australian shares relative to benchmark contributing to the strong performance, while within domestic equities, higher allocation to medium and smaller companies also contributed. Overweight Japanese equity was also a strong contributer ...