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Institutions more comfortable with hedge funds: State Street

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 17 APR 2007
State Street's third institutional investor hedge fund study shows more institutional investors are comfortable investing in hedge funds today than 12 months ago. Conducted late last year, the study, in conjunction with the 2006 Global Absolute Return ...

Global indexing hits $6.4 trillion

... managers. This included figures from the largest index fund managers in the world including Barclays Global (BGI), State Street and Vanguard. Among the key findings were that alternative asset classes normally defined as "active" are now getting indexed ...

...meanwhile hedge fund sector returns can be synthesised

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 26 FEB 2007
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) said most of the returns for the hedge fund sector can be explained by their asset allocation, meaning it is possible to assemble a synthetic investment strategy to mimic hedge fund sector returns. Paul Brakke, a ...

Asset Super's strategic investment shift

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 20 FEB 2007
... trusts and international bonds. The winners in the move are AQR Capital, Barclays, First Quadrant, Mellon, Macquarie, State Street Global Advisors (SSGA) and Vanguard who will manage the $124 million shift. "These moves are in line with the fund's desire ...

Index funds basking in the glow of 6,000

... December 2006. The top 10 index funds last year were the index products of Macquarie, Barclays, Colonial First State, State Street, AMP and Vanguard. As to whether it's time to cash in while the index is at its peak, Vanguard's head of Australian equities ...

State Street boosts transition management team

NICK OLIVER  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 JAN 2007
State Street has appointed a new business development manager for the State Street Global Markets' transition management sales team. Michael Putica joins the State Street team from BNP Asset Management where he worked as a business development manager ...

AIMA boosts executive committee

NICK OLIVER  |  TUESDAY, 23 JAN 2007
... Kent, executive chairman of Everest Babcock & Brown, and David Travers, managing director of investor services at State Street Australia, have been appointed to the AIMA executive committee. Current AIMA chair Kim Ivey, managing director of Vertex Capital ...

State Street ploughs $715m into online FX

State Street Corporation is to buy online foreign exchange trading platform Currenex for more than $715 million (US$564 million), increasing its foothold in the rapidly growing online foreign exchange sector. Foreign exchange is the largest and most-liquid ...

ABN AMRO adds two to team

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 DEC 2006
... Management as chief operating officer. She spent the last seven years with Advance, prior to which she spent time with State Street, Ernst & Young and Westpac. Matthew Winning leaves Zurich Asset Management to take up a position as compliance and risk ...

FUM climbs to $1.3 trillion trumping national debt

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 12 DEC 2006
... FUM it still exceeds $1.1 trillion. Colonial is the largest funds manager with $96 billion, followed by AMP, MLC, State Street Global Advisers and ING. In a sign of things to come however, the Future Fund with an estimated $35 billion in unallocated ...