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MLC expands Horizon portfolios

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... shares. "In April, we announced two new strategies for these portfolios - a multi-asset real return strategy and an emerging markets strategy," said Dr Susan Gosling, head of investments at MLC Investment Management. "This third exciting change will ...

Barings launches Asia dynamic asset allocation fund

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 MAY 2012
... opportunities in the Asian region than in the US. The move follows Barings launch of a similar fund in 2011 focused on emerging markets supported by a number of significant senior executive appointments into the region. The Asia Dynamic Asset Allocation ...

Neuberger Berman expands team in Australia

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2012
... currently most relevant to the Australia market. "Australian institutions have invested in Neuberger Berman's emerging markets equities, global equities, debt and alternatives capabilities. "We expect to introduce a small number of additional Neuberger ...

Investors set to remain cautious: Franklin Templeton

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... Australian investors are more risk averse in the short term, when asked to consider the longer term, more believe that Emerging Markets will provide better returns than developed or frontier markets, yet few are actually prepared to shift their investment ...

Apostle partners with Dundas Global

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... The Dundas Global Equity Strategy (Strategy) invests in 60 to 100 leading global companies from developed and emerging markets with a minimum stock capitalisation of US$1 billion. The Strategy uses a bottom up, fundamental approach and aims to create ...

Investors focus on Russian consumer stocks

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 21 MAY 2012
... headlines, the Russian consumer story is an interesting one showing significant potential compared with other emerging markets. According to Hanson-Lawson, 63% of Russian GDP is represented by consumption, compared with about 35% for China, although ...

Medcraft to chair IOSCO

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... constituted in Beijing through a three-way merger of IOSCO's Technical Committee, Executive Committee and the Emerging Markets Committee Advisory Board. Medcraft was appointed chairman of ASIC in 2011, following two years as Commissioner, prior to which ...

The end is not nigh

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... requirement ratio by 50 bps effective 18 May - the third cut in six months. And Australia? As long as China and emerging markets and the US don't go down the drain, we won't. And then there's the A$ which is acting as an automatic stabiliser to the instability ...

ETPs have record start to the year

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2012
... yields in most global markets, may have been a driver." The top-ten asset gathering ETPs for Q1 2012 included emerging markets equity, US large-cap equity, corporate bonds, high yield bonds, volatility products and gold. "Global flows into fixed income ...

MLC adds strategies, lowers share exposure

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 APR 2012
... limiting its exposure to global shares. MLC has made an allocation to a multi-asset real return strategy and an emerging markets strategy in an effort to further diversify its Horizon Series portfolios and decrease its reliance on global share markets. ...