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US confidence down and up

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 MAR 2008
... sub-prime foreclosure fears overshadowing consumer fears, fears of a jobs shortage could be devastating. Meanwhile, State Street Global Markets has reported that in stark contrast to US consumer confidence, global institutional investor confidence rose ...

SSgA wins $200m hedge fund replication mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 MAR 2008
State Street Global Advisors has been selected by UK-based Universities Superannuation Scheme (USS) to manage a $200 million hedge fund replication mandate. The Hedge Fund Beta Replication Strategy replicates the average performance of a group of hedge ...

Diversity wins at State Street

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 13 MAR 2008
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA), the investment management arm of State Street Corporation, is to launch a range of diversified growth strategies using both traditional and alternative asset classes. These strategies will invest across a combination ...

Future Fund to become top insto

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 26 FEB 2008
The Future Fund has signed up Vanguard, State Street, CFS GAM and QIC as its debut investment managers, but there's more to come as the fund strives to become the country's "leading institutional investor". Speaking at the 2008 Asset Allocation Summit ...

ETFs weather one-stock shocks

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 FEB 2008
... up having discussion with their clients as to what happened when things go wrong." There are three ETFs issued by State Street that cover Australian indicies including the S&P/ASX 50, S&P/ASX 200, and the SPDR S&P/ASX 200 listed property fund. There ...

Jumping volatility not yet swaying sentiment

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 29 JAN 2008
... paradoxically welcome news, the unbridled enthusiasm of Chinese investors has at last taken a hit. Meanwhile the State Street Global Investor Confidence Index also rose, this time by 3.0 points to reach 68.8 from a revised December level of 65.8. North ...

Women in Finance supports PIFA

... supportive networking environment for female investment professionals. Among its member companies are Citi, Deutsche Bank, State Street, Merrill Lynch and ANZ. The entertainment was provided by the Aboriginal Friendship Choir with a keynote speech from ...

T-Charter has limitations

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 NOV 2007
... fails to provide adequate standards to evaluate transition managers, according to Russell Investments. In October State Street, Barclays Global Investors (Barclays) and Russell Investments (Russell) signed T-Charter, a voluntary, non-prescriptive document ...

AXA locks and loads

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 23 NOV 2007
... superannuation fund members can choose among a rollcall of household names in value and growth funds management including State Street, Schroders, MIR, IML, Blackrock, La Salle Management and BT Financial. Emery revealed AXA was also experimenting in ...

SSgA restructures global asset team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 20 NOV 2007
State Street Global Advisers (SSgA) has reorganised its global asset management team following the underperformance of its fixed income businesses. Mark Marinella has been promoted to chief investment officer of global fixed income following the departure ...