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PGI updates fixed income fund

LAURA MILLAN | TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013

Principal Global Investors (PGI) is looking at the next generation of fixed income products and has adapted its Global Credit Opportunities Fund to make it more flexible for Australian investors. "Investors are rotating out of a more traditional type ...

China's rebalancing act

BENJAMIN ONG | TUESDAY, 25 JUN 2013

... preventing risks" and "strengthen their analysis and forecasting about factors affecting liquidity". "Follow the requirements of macro prudence in allocating assets in a sensible fashion and cautiously control the risks that the excessively rapid expansion ...

Will Australia escape an EM bond crisis?

JAMES FERNYHOUGH | WEDNESDAY, 19 JUN 2013

... market (EM) bond market may be a bubble waiting to burst, but Australian bonds can escape this fate, according Fred Goodwin, macro strategist at State Street Global Markets. Since 2008, the high yields offered by EM bonds have been an attractive prospect ...

William Blair targets super fund investors with 'game theory'

MARK SMITH | TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013

... asset manager William Blair's head of dynamic allocation strategies Brian Singer has been in Australia promoting the firm's Macro Allocation Fund to institutional investors. The strategy is centred on the investment philosophy of 'game theory' - the ...

Careful of the recession you wish for

BENJAMIN ONG | MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013

... Morgan Stanley suggests." And just to make it three for three, the SMH published an article by David Llewellyn-Smith of Macro Business last week where he wrote that, "I believe there's a 50 per cent chance Australia will enter a recession next year." ...

Variety of strategies needed for all-weather outperformance

MARK SMITH | WEDNESDAY, 22 MAY 2013

... style is beginning to go out of favour." Morphic's investment process combines bottom-up fundamental stock analysis with a macro overlay, which identifies thematic drivers which that are wrongly priced by the market. "We get access to 95% of information ...

Money, money, money

BENJAMIN ONG | THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013

Top-down approach wins in post-GFC world: Hexavest

MARK SMITH | THURSDAY, 2 MAY 2013

In the post-global financial crisis (GFC) world, global equity markets are more sensitive to news flow and macroeconomics than to fundamental business growth, according to Hexavest founding partner and senior vice president Robert Brunelle. The asset ...

Patience with underperforming managers urged: NAB

MARK SMITH | MONDAY, 29 APR 2013

... result of the latter issues then the fund holding should be reviewed. If on the other hand, it was a result of external macro issues affecting the specific style, there may be scope to maintain the fund holding."

Fund managers tip great returns on US investments

MARK SMITH | TUESDAY, 23 APR 2013

... revolution to Wal-Mart's achievements in the 1990s relative to their traditional competition," Burgess said. HSBC Global head of macro and investment strategy Philip Poole added that accommodative central bank policies would help boost corporate asset ...

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Global X awards mandate for ETF business

ELIZA BAVIN

Global X has awarded a new custody and administration mandate for its Australian ETF business.

Bell Asset Management launches small-caps fund

KARREN VERGARA

Bell Asset Management has formally launched its Australian Small Companies Fund, which is run by former Tyndall Asset Management portfolio managers.

Former Australian Ethical finance chief lands new gig

MATTHEW WAI

The former chief financial officer of the ethical investment manager has joined a local finance company after wrapping up his tenure at AUB Group.

MySuper assets pursue $1.5tn Choice sector

KARREN VERGARA

MySuper assets are fast catching up to the $1.5 trillion Choice sector, hitting nearly $1.2 trillion in the March quarter.

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