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AustralianSuper awards $1bn global equities mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 30 MAY 2014
AustralianSuper has awarded a $1 billion global equities mandate to a US-based fund manager. Causeway Capital Management confirmed to Financial Standard that it was awarded the mandate, which is more than 1% of the value of AustralianSuper's portfolio. ...

Challenger makes senior Fidante Partners appointment

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 26 MAY 2014
... WyeTree, global infrastructure manager, Whitehelm Capital, global credit investor, Bentham Asset Management and global equities managers River & Mercantile and Tempo Asset Management. Fidante Partners' boutiques operate from locations in London, Singapore ...

IOOF awards $115m global equities mandate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 15 MAY 2014
IOOF has appointed State Street Global Advisers (SSgA) to manage a $115 million active global equities strategy as part of its IOOF MultiMix suite of multi-manager superannuation funds. The mandate was awarded to SSgA's Global Managed Volatility Alpha ...

New business targets investors' bad habits

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  TUESDAY, 6 MAY 2014
... have a number of habits that may not be in their best interest, such as a pronounced preference for domestic over global equities, a strong attachment to property and a very high allocation to cash. In its attempt to address this knowledge deficit, BFA ...

New entrants drive growth in global equities sector

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 5 MAY 2014
Over the past 12 months the global equities sector has seen the highest number of new entrants since before the onset of the global financial crisis, a report by investment research house Lonsec Research (Lonsec) has revealed. Lonsec's Global Equities ...

Channel Capital acquires QIC small cap business

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... business already boasts an agriculture offering, a global property fund (RRE Global Property Securities) and a global equities fund, and now the QIC team will provide a new Australian small caps capability to be known as Discovery. Discovery will join ...

Perpetual appoints senior JANA investment exec

ALICE URIBE  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... investment solutions; consultant and head of absolute return research team and research associate (alternatives and global equities). At Perpetual Investment O'Dea will be responsible for leading the team's wholesale balanced, diversified and conservative ...

Catholic Super seeds new AllianceBernstein fund

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... markets. It emphasises high-quality companies and seeks to reduce stock-specific risks; it also invests up to 20% in global equities to increase diversification and reduce downside risk and up to 20% in cash. AllianceBernstein Australia chief executive ...

Winton appoints Platinum exec to head Sydney office

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... head up its recently opened Sydney office. Grimes was an institutional investment specialist with the $23 billion global equities manager for more than 5 years. Prior to that he was he was a consultant at Watson Wyatt (now Towers Watson). Platinum confirmed ...

FEATURE: The alpha hunters

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 11 APR 2014
... the investor side. While superannuation funds have started to widen their nets to include sizable allocations to global equities, mum and dad investors have retained their home bias. Self-managed superannuation fund (SMSF) investment habits are a good ...