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Obsession with stability is killing returns

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... caps to tobacco, fracking or coal, according to Ariel Investments chief investment officer of international and global equities Rupal J. Bhansali. Bhansali labels her investment approach as contrarian and says that "to engage in contrarian investing ...

NZ Super Fund heavy on growth

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 3 AUG 2015
... in other NZ assets. Changes to the composition of the Reference Portfolio include increasing the allocation to global equities from 70% to 75%.A Of this, 65% is targeted to developed markets and 10% to emerging markets. The Reference Portfolio's 5% allocation ...

Investors to get less in coming years

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... warned. At an Australian Unity Investments outlook briefing in Sydney, senior fund managers from property and global equities house, Wingate, and Australian equities boutique, Platypus Asset Management, gave a downcast view of the economic and investment ...

AustralianSuper builds in-house global equities team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
AustralianSuper has already hired four people to its internal global equities team and is on track to manage over $10 billion in international stocks in-house. Australia's largest industry super fund has appointed Richard Ginty to lead the global equities ...

Class supports nabtrade data feed

STAFF WRITER  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... and nabtrade have partnered to provide investors with access to five markets, eight exchanges and over 10,000 global equities and exchange traded funds (ETFs). "With the growing SMSF market and high demand for foreign assets, the nabtrade platform provides ...

Nikko announces Americas sales head, new products

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 27 JUL 2015
... in the Americas." Nikko has also announced that it is launching two new UCITS funds this month that invest in global equities and multi-asset. These institutional quality strategies will allow sophisticated global investors access to a broad range of ...

Passive strategies benefit active managers

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... smart beta strategies is a great trend for active managers, according to Standard Life Investments (SLI) head of global equities Mikhail Zverev. "It is very strange to see an active manager saying that we quite like this trend, but we do," Zverev said. ...

ANALYSIS: The dragon in the room

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2015
... growth this year, or one-third of the total. But growth will vary greatly across sectors and regions. Chicago-based global equities manager William Blair has recently changed its views on China. One of the firm's equity specialists, Romina Graiver, says ...

Hyperion eyes global equities

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 10 JUL 2015
... international stocks to improve its understanding of the Australian market and with the long term goal of launching a global equities fund. Hyperion managing director Tim Samway told Financial Standard : "We are increasing our capacity to research international ...

mFund doubles size in 6 months

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... Australian equities, with 26 funds in total. It is followed by international equities, with 23 funds including global equities (18), emerging markets (2), Asia Pacific ex-Japan (2) and infrastructure (1).