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Investors need income rethink after RBA rate cut

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 MAY 2013
... investors should also remain sanguine about fixed income investments in Asia and emerging market debt. State Street Global Advisers head of SPDR ETFs Amanda Skelly agreed that investors should now be looking to further diversify their income streams. ...

Kim playing Duke Nukem is the bigger worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 4 APR 2013
... Oh-em-gee! That slowly revving engine of the world economy is running out of puff. Woe is us, we're in trouble now. Wall Street's down big time - the Dow's down by 0.8% and the S&P 500 slid by 1.1% -- along with Europe (Euro Stoxx 50 off 1.5% at the ...

SSgA launches low-risk global equity fund

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAR 2013
Active management is a tough game and picking active managers is just as tough, warns State Street Global Advisers' Lochiel Crafter. The head of investments for the Asia Pacific at SSgA says that investors are often disappointed by the returns generated ...

SSgA launches global equity ETFs

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAR 2013
State Street Global Advisers (SSgA) has announced the launch of two new exchange traded funds (ETFs), giving Aussie investors cheap access to international equities. The SPDR S&P World ex-Australia ETF will begin trading on the ASX in the coming weeks ...

Planners praised for guiding investors into fixed income

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 22 JAN 2013
... that alpha is going to be a major consideration, supporting the need for active managers," he said. State Street Global Advisers' head of active Australian equities Olivia Engel has also warned that the threat of volatility hasn't gone away. While market ...

Retirees must invest in equities: State Street

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2012
... investors shouldn't underestimate the value of having growth assets in their portfolio, according to State Street Global Advisers (SSgA). Typically when saving for retirement investors are advisers to gradually step back their exposure to riskier assets ...

Most consumers distrust advisers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
... are acting in their best interest when offering products and services, according to a global investor study by the State Street Centre for Applied Research. The entitled The Influential Investor: How Investor Behaviour is Redefining Performance, is based ...

Two new product development managers at Tyndall AM

BEN COLLINS  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
... from Perpetual Investment Management where he was senior product manager. He has also worked with State Street Global Advisers, Morgan Stanley Investment Management and Gartmore Fund Managers in both product management and investment management roles ...

SSgA names wholesale vice president

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 24 AUG 2012
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) has named Amy Johnston as vice president of wholesale sales, to lead its expansion into the Australian wholesale channel. Johnston joins from Goldman Sachs Asset Management where she held the role as a national accounts ...

IOOF appoints new investment specialist

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2012
... resources to raise the profile and sales of the WealthBuilder suite in the market. Smith joins IOOF from State Street Global Advisers where he spent the past eight years building the SSga suite of Exchange Traded and Unlisted Funds. Prior to this role ...