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Manage risks not returns

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 DEC 2006
... doesn't always have to follow market capitalisation weightings. In comments reminiscent of recent announcements by State Street Global Advisors and their new wealth weighted indices, Hsu asked "what is a big company? Companies with the biggest cash flows ...

Schroders beefs up distribution

... recruitment trail since the start of the year. Among the key appointments previously announced were Scott who joined from State Street Global Advisors, Mark Bourgeouis who joined from Merrill Lynch (BlackRock) in October as the new head of institutional ...

NCS head of sales and marketing departs

... the group managed nearly $300 billion in assets under the 'master custody' category alone, trailed by JP Morgan and State Street. Michelle Baltazar

Irish future fund puts faith in passive investing

... awarded a $5 billion ((a,-3 billion) passive equity mandate to Bank of Ireland Asset Management Limited (BIAM) and State Street Global Advisors (SSgA). BIAM will provide the asset allocation, sales, marketing and ongoing client service for the fund while ...

State Street cuts transaction costs by up to 75 per cent

Big is not only beautiful it is also cheap after State Street Corporation's internal research found that their clients save up to 75 per cent in transaction costs thanks to the group's scale. By studying how US$1 trillion in assets were transacted (bought ...

Currency managers pray for Cruise antics

The latest State Street Global Research weekly report noted that the market lull in currencies is making foreign exchange (FX) traders wish that the markets would 'jump the couch', or exhibit strange, volatile behaviour a la Tom Cruise. "A lack of volatility ...

New global head of currency for SSgA

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 17 OCT 2006
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has appointed a new global head of currency management. Collin Crownover leaves his role as head of the investor risk advisory team with Citigroup New York and London to head up SSgA's currency management group. He ...

SSgA launches global index fund with value bias

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2006
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has announced the launch of a new global passive fund that combines some of the core qualities of value investing with the benefits of passive index style investment management. The SSgA Wealth Weighted Global Equities ...

Land of the giants: World's top 500 fund managers

... Allianz enjoyed the biggest growth in assets under management, thanks mainly to its merger with Dresdner, followed by State Street. In Australia, the four largest players were still the same as last year although they have all slid down the global ranks. ...

It's Perennial all over again: Macoun

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 SEP 2006
... new business will start with a new quantitative boutique fund manager, Plato Investment Management, run by former State Street Global Advisors head of Australian equities and head of active equities Asia Pacific, Don Hamson. Under the deal Macoun together ...