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Debt and small caps broaden emerging market value

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
Small caps and local currency debt are among the broadening areas of opportunity for investing in emerging markets, which remain attractively priced for institutional investment, said a State Street global investment strategist. With emerging market ...

S&P loses Hoven

RACHEL DAVIS  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... ratings house. A spokesperson for S&P told Financial Standard that Hoven has already left the company. S&P said that research related enquiries should be directed through Leanne Milton, S&P Fund Services head of research. Hoven joined Standard & Poor's ...

Seven super funds win AAA for entire product range

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... superannuation funds to have recently gained a AAA rating for all of their superannuation and retirement products from research firm Rainmaker in the last three months. Rainmaker research has reviewed 510 superannuation and retirement products in its ...

Secondary market for private equity heats with billion dollar deal

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... the secondary market for global private equity, suggesting predictions for market upturn were right according to new research from alternative investment research firm Preqin. AXA Private Equity's purchase of a US$1.7 billion private equity portfolio ...

ING Investment adopts Bloomberg Platform

LOREN RUGEBREGT  |  THURSDAY, 28 JUL 2011
ING Investment Management has adopted Bloomberg's research platform to keep connected with trade idea performance worldwide. ING IM is the first investment firm to use this technology which provides a network for portfolio managers to communicate with ...

ANZ launches new life cover for over 50s

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... costs and unpaid bills up to the cost of $15,000. The cover is for life and premium costs do not increase with age. "Our research found a strong appeal for insurance cover that allowed consumers to avoid burdening their loved ones," said Gavin Pearce ...

Improved governance called for all round

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 JUL 2011
... skills. But if the proof is in the pudding, industry funds have so far outperformed retail funds. According to Rainmaker research over the last five years to May, default investment options in retail superannuation funds have averaged just 1.01% per ...

State Super CEO heads to Schroders

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... Aberdeen Asset Management and Alicia Low from Standard & Poor's. Gray joins as fund manager, fixed income and head of credit research. With 13 years of investment management experience he was formerly senior portfolio manager of Australian fixed income ...

Fund flows push life risk market to $9.5b

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... billion in the year to March, an increase of 10.4% over the $8.6 billion collected in the year to March 2010, actuarial research firm Plan For Life said in a report on life insurance risk premium inflows and sales released yesterday. National Australia ...

Market Wrap - Midday

AAP  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... share price index futures contract was 25 points higher at 4,538 points, on a volume of 19,823 contracts. IG Markets research analyst Ben Potter said an address by US President Barack Obama on the US debt-ceiling deadlock had failed to register on the ...