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Transition mandates to reach record highs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
A record number of super funds and endowments will replace their fund managers later this year to get rid of poor-performing funds and make way for new asset allocation strategies, predicts Mellon Transition Management. MTM, the transition management ...

Active manager mandates to increase: Mercer

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Mercer, one of the country's largest asset consultants, is advising its institutional clients to allocate more funds with active managers to capture the one-off abnormal returns coming out of stockmarkets as they switch into recovery mode. Simon Eagleton ...

Asset Super completes intl mandates review

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
Asset Super has made sweeping changes to its international equities and bonds mandates, dropping seven out of eight international equities fund managers and appointing nine new mandates across both asset classes. Asset Super has discontinued mandates ...

QIC targets overseas instos

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 9 JUN 2009
QIC has opened the firm's Global Fixed Interest Alpha fund to international investors. Launched in 2005, the fund uses absolute return strategies across fixed income global macro markets and credit derivatives. The fund posted a gross return of more ...

ANZ Super Advantage adds four

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
The $1.6 billion ANZ Super Advantage has added four new investment funds including a Vanguard and BlackRock product to its menu. Implemented in late April, ANZ Super Advantage had added the ING Global Property Securities fund, OptiMix Global Emerging ...

Julius Baer splits AM and bank

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 2 JUN 2009
Swiss wealth management firm, Julius Baer has separated the company's private banking and asset management businesses into two listed companies. The deal means both businesses will be listed on the SIX Swiss Exchange with Julius Baer Group focussing ...

Tribeca stays on track

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
Tribeca Investment Partners has received a number of rating upgrades and one of its funds was added to an investment wrap one year after Grant Samuel Funds Management took an equity stake in the firm. David Aylward, chief executive at Tribeca Investment ...

Unions attack retirement age change

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... jobs," the Treasurer said in an interview today. The Union campaign is drawing mixed reactions. Former Union boss and now ALP Senator, Doug Cameron, has echoed the concerns. But Mark Dreyfus, MP for Isaacs in Victoria, said today on ABC Radio that the ...

Super escapes budget knives

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
... increase the retirement age to 67 years is receiving a similar reception, despite the policy being quite a reversal from the ALP's "work till you drop" campaign against the previous government. This however is where the decision to cut back the low income ...

Netwealth drops 13 funds from menu

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 MAY 2009
Netwealth has withdrawn all the BT funds from its super and investment wraps, while adding four other products including property, Australian and international equities following planner feedback. Netwealth has added the Vanguard Australian Shares High ...