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More bombshells before the recovery

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 FEB 2009
... also be the beneficiaries of the market downturn with housing affordability going back to levels seen in the mid-1990s, said UBS Australasia chief economist Scott Haslem. Like James, Haslem predicts more pain before the gain. "This is the worst economic ...

Magellan Global tops overseas shares manager list

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
... the joint head of global banking at Deutsche Bank Australasia while Mackay was the former chief executive and chairman of UBS Australasia. It is this M&A background that helped Douglass, who manages Magellan Global, avoid the brunt of last year's market ...

State Street scores $1bn mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 16 JAN 2009
... trustee board of the American super fund handed the mandate to State Street on January 14, after axing its previous deal with UBS Global Managers. Apart from State Street, Mellon Capital Management is another passive manager on the fund's investment ...

Aussie tech providers score overseas deals

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... for its business. Price Bailey's Private Client division was forced to look elsewhere for an administration provider after UBS decided to stop providing the service in November last year. James King, head of Price Bailey Private Clients, said the firm ...

Vanguard launches gov bond fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... Government Bond Index Fund (the Fund) invests in Government and Semi-Government bonds, and seeks to match the total return of the UBS Australian Government Bond Index, before fees and expenses. The UBS Australian Government Bond Index is a value weighted ...

Planners turn to cash and TD funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
Cash and term deposit funds from St George, UBS and Adelaide Bank led the list of Aviva's top 10 funds for net inflows during 2008 while Platinum International Fund and Perpetual Wholesale Industrial Fund suffered the highest level of redemptions over ...

GFC wipes $80b FUM

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 11 DEC 2008
... however experienced few changes - up by a very marginal 0.6 per cent to $71 billion. Best inflow results were achieved by UBS Global Asset Management (14.8 per cent) and ING (11.2 per cent).

S&P downgrades UBS Equity Income to sell

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
Research firm S&P has derated the UBS Australian Equity Income fund from three-stars to 'sell' after the fund's portfolio manager Paul Stanley resigned this week. S&P urged existing investors in the fund to get advice on switching or redeeming their ...

Quattro fund on ice

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 21 NOV 2008
... said. Vault 08 was a capital guaranteed hedge fund replication strategy for retail clients. The fund provided exposure to five UBS proprietary investment strategies including four equity strategies and a currency approach using leverage to maximise returns. ...

The Cambridge Strategy appoints MD

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2008
... to a diversified client base that includes superannuation funds. Before joining The Cambridge Strategy, Colehan worked for UBS O'Connor's Currency and Rates hedge fund from 1999. As portfolio manager, he traded G14 and emerging markets foreign exchange ...