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Swiss manager exceeds $1bn in Aus assets

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
Swiss-based Vontobel Asset Management has announced that its Australian assets under management have surpassed $1 billion. The global manager said that the growth was driven by growing demand from Australian institutional investors for its 'Quality ...

Aussie shares to rally within a year: Russell

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2012
... weakened Australian dollar where also cited by Australian managers as factors that would improve the domestic market. Lower interest rates, stronger domestic demand and an improvement in US growth were listed, to a lesser extent, as catalysts for a recovery. ...

Upside from frontier markets untapped: Feriani

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... markets. "That is why emerging markets have underperformed over the past five years, and therefore did not attract the same interest they may have had," says Feriani. "Frontier markets, or markets that are not defined as anything, have not been getting ...

Hybrid securities back in favour

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... which qualifies as a Tier 1 Capital offer. Since issuing the eagerly anticipated hybrids, the bank has received strong interest from both retail and institutional investors. "However, after the GFC, the majority of interest comes from retail investors ...

Fund managers bullish on Asian bonds

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2012
... credit going at distressed prices. The high levels of government debt at this point in the cycle have led to a pick up in interest at the corporate level although volatility is pushing institutional investors towards more hard currency debt. "When you ...

Don't overlook South America as an EM: MFS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... within South America, but it's that region's investment opportunities, not its capital raising potential, that should interest Australian institutional investors, said Roberge. Interestingly, while the Brazil Bovespa Market Index has risen 16% in the ...

Super fund backs News Corp independence push

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
Rupert Murdoch's dual role as chairman and chief executive of News Corporation will be challenged by at least one Australian superannuation fund at the company's annual general meeting in Los Angeles on 16 October. A proposal that the News Corp chairperson ...

Yield at any cost flawed: GSAM

BEN COLLINS  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Cost pressures, low productivity and the impact of a strong Australian dollar are causing uncertainty, despite falling interest rates and strengthening balance sheets, said Dion Hershan, head of Australian equities at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. ...

Failure is not an option

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... Singh's administration and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are now doing something about these challenges. The RBI has kept interest rates unchanged at 8.0% since April to bring inflation pressure down -- which as at August was running at annual rate ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 OCT 2012
... hit a soft patch despite news of successful Spanish bond auctions and after the ECB and Bank of England kept their main interest rates unchanged. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index of top companies closed virtually unchanged on the day at 5,827.78 points. ...