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Economic round-up: BRICs get richer

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
The outlook for growth in emerging economies looks set to accelerate, "playing increasingly important roles in the global economy," while mature markets are likely to take a back seat, according to the World Wealth Report. The World Wealth Report by ...

Mellon scores Asset Super mandate

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 14 JUN 2007
Mellon Global Investments Australia has been awarded an $18 million mandate from Asset Super for its Mellon Global Alpha Trust, adding to its collection of 26 others. The Global Alpha Trust, launched in January 2004, is a multi-strategy long-short product ...

Global indices are dinosaurs: Schroders

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
Global equity indices are dinosaurs and could be heading for extinction, according to Schroders' head of sales, Brian Scott. Scott said indices such as the MSCI World (ex-Australia) were inefficient, had a poor alignment of interest, were unsafe and ...

Economic round-up: dust off the bear suit

SUZY MAC  |  FRIDAY, 8 JUN 2007
Since 2003 we've been enjoying a period of astonishingly unswerving and powerful market returns, however there is more and more talk among market analysts that it could be time to get that bear suit dry-cleaned ready for another wear. Accrording to ...

Small cap oversight costs significant alpha

New research from Inalytics, a company that conducts quantitative analysis on fund manager skill, has found that a fund manager's "unintended bias" against small cap shares is costing investors 65 basis points per month in 2006 or a loss of over seven ...

Canadian pension fund returns topping 14 per cent

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
Canadian and Australian pension funds have a lot in common as the good performance run of Canadian pension funds is continuing to be driven by both domestic and international equities. "Since hitting their low-point in March of 2003, [Canadian] pensions ...

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 APR 2007
Sentiment in the Australian economy has recently fallen slightly after the previous significantly positive lift with the National Australia Bank Business Confidence Survey indicating a decrease by 2 points to a score of 10 in the last month. Business ...

Fund managers still favour international shares

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
Australian fund managers have held their course through the market turbulence of 2007, continuing to prefer international share exposures, according to the latest Russell Investment Manager Outlook survey. The Russell IMO surveys Australian fund managers ...

Emerging markets by numbers: BlackRock

BlackRock Australia tapped into the solid track record of the global BlackRock's Princeton-based quant team when the group launched an emerging markets enhanced fund locally that is modeled on the US version. The BlackRock Global Enhanced Emerging Markets ...

Ord Minnett STRIPES steps up the pace in Asia

Ord Minnett's STRIPES Asia Accelerator fund posted a 30 per cent gain over the past 12 months, proving that even though the 'Asia boom' story may be a well-worn theme the returns certainly aren't wearing out. STRIPES Asia Accelerator invests in five ...