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Perpetual argues for insto outcome focus

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUN 2012
Asset class specialisation may have gone too far for the current volatile environment, according to one manager, who says current asset allocation structures are too focused on diversifying at stock level rather than required outcomes. The current method ...

China needs active management: Fidelity

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 MAY 2012
Revised growth targets are part of the latest Chinese five-year plan focusing on social harmony, but active management is essential to reap the solid gains, according to Fidelity. Chinese equities may still be considered a relatively risky asset class ...

PIMCO lands OnePath advice mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 MAR 2012
PIMCO will broaden its distribution capabilities to planners at the four ANZ-aligned dealer groups after being appointed to manage OnePath's fixed income portfolio. Global bond manager PIMCO said it wants to expand further into the Australian advice ...

Market provides opportunities for absolute return investment

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 FEB 2012
Super funds and retail investors should consider adopting a risk based approach to portfolio construction and move away from traditional asset allocation, according to one global fund manager, to protect their investments against volatile markets. Global ...

Smart investors buy productive assets: Buffett

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 14 FEB 2012
Celebrity investor Warren Buffett has reminded investors that they and their clients only make money if they buy assets that go up in value and avoid assets that don't. Writing an opinion piece for CNN Money magazine, Buffett, regarded as a leader among ...

Sunsuper renews Mercer mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 SEP 2011
Mercer has secured its 17th mandate this year with $17 billion industry super fund, Sunsuper, renewing its investment consulting contract for a further three years at the same time expanding its investment team. Under the new contract, Mercer will provide ...

Hung

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
By now many of you, fellow Australians, would have had enough of the commentaries, in-depth analyses, finger-pointing, spins, recriminations, soul searching, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera that preceded and followed last Saturday's Australian elections. ...

Converting to convertible bonds

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 16 AUG 2010
With economies on both sides of the Atlantic faced with the dual threats of rising debt and deficits, and stubbornly high unemployment, economists and central bankers are divided as to whether the escalating prices of the late 1970's or a Japanese-style ...

BTIM adds to multi strategies team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 9 DEC 2009
BT Investment Management has appointed former Aviva and UBS executives, Vimal Gor and Stuart Eliot to its multi strategies team. Gor previously worked for over 10 years at Aviva Investors in London, where he was responsible for the management of the ...

Super funds eye catastrophic investing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 NOV 2009
Credit Suisse Investments hopes to fill the local investment gap for alternative asset classes that are genuinely uncorrelated to domestic equities - a move that ends in "catastrophe". Filo Sedillo, the local managing director in alternative investments ...