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Global investment redrawn by technology

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 24 OCT 2016
... steps: the perennial issue of strong management; to consider stocks within a global context; and revamping the concept of valuation. "I'm an accountant by training, and I can say that most of our accounting standards haven't kept pace with technological ...

NZ Super tackles climate change

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 20 OCT 2016
... Superannuation, will incorporate climate change considerations into investment analyses and decisions, for example into valuation models, risk allocation and manager selection. The Guardians will also report the fund's carbon footprint annually. "We ...

Perpetual Global Share Fund strengthens defence

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 OCT 2016
Perpetual has upped the cash weighting in its Global Share Fund and decreased its exposure to cyclical stocks on concerns the end of the economic cycle is approaching. The fund has increased its cash allocation to 18%, up from a five-and-a-half year ...

EAM Investors wins first Australian mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 11 OCT 2016
Pacific Current Group's specialist global small and micro-cap boutique manager, EAM Investors, has won its first Australian institutional mandate. IOOF Investments has added the fund manager's Emerging Markets Small Cap Strategy to its IOOF MultiMix ...

IOOF chair to retire, director appointed

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 4 OCT 2016
... Quest Apartment Hotels. From 2000 to 2016 he was a partner in the corporate finance practice of Ernst & Young, providing valuation services to a broad range of local and international clients. In a statement to the ASX, IOOF said Selak's appointment ...

Invesco adds to property team

KERRIE SYDEE  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
Invesco Real Estate (IRE) has appointed an acquisitions analyst to its Australian team. Louis O'Loughlin joined IRE's Sydney team on 26 September and will work closely with manager of acquisitions Tim Meurer and manager of investments Matt Starr. In ...

Economic Wrap

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 30 SEP 2016
... the June quarter while the core PCE price rate rose by 1.8%. US corporate profits Corporate profits (with inventory valuation adjustment and capital consumption adjustment) declined by 0.6% or US$12.5 billion in the second quarter, following a US$66.0 ...

Dark pools effective at reducing volatility spikes: Liquidnet

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 SEP 2016
... are matched through a secure platform that even Liquidnet staff can't access), there was negligible volatility in the valuation of a given security compared to the trades executed through other intermediaries. This is advantageous on the buy-side, because ...

Valuation dispersion creating opportunity for instos to retilt

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 27 SEP 2016
The dispersion in valuations between the cheapest and the most expensive stocks is the widest it has been at any point since the dotcom boom, according to the founder of global asset manager Pzena Investment Management. The most expensive quintile of ...

NZ Super Fund posts decent full-year return

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 SEP 2016
The NZ Super Fund returned 1.89% (after costs, before NZ tax) in the year to 30 June 2016. Performance was hampered by negative returns in global equities but the investment committee was still able to add value versus the passive reference portfolio ...