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Aberdeen adds to fixed income Core

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 4 APR 2008
... credit, emerging market debt, high yield and currency and interest rate derivative strategies. The fund aims to outperform the UBS Composite Bond index by 150 basis points per annum over a three year investment horizon. Bill Bovingdon, Aberdeen Asset ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 3 APR 2008
... peak as banks roared higher, with credit fears easing after a capital boost by Lehman Brothers and a write-down by Swiss Bank UBS AB. The Nikkei closed up 532.94 points at 13,189.36, its first time above 13,000 for three weeks and its biggest daily percentage ...

Market wrap - midday

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
... quelled fears it was headed toward a fate similar to Bear Stearns and a $US19 billion ($A20.83 billion) write-down by Swiss bank UBS AG reinforced the view that the banks were aggressively scrubbing their books clean of soured investments. The Dow Jones ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 APR 2008
... NEW YORK - US stocks gained more than 2 per cent on Tuesday as strong demand for a Lehman Brothers share offering and a big UBS write-down helped to ease credit market concerns. The Dow Jones industrial average was up 317.05 points, or 2.59 per cent ...

Integrity appoints head of equity trading

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 28 MAR 2008
... with Karen Thompson on trading and implementation for client portfolios. She will bring eight years of experience gained at UBS to the firm. Montagu was previously executive director and head of Australian Equity Trading at UBS and was responsible for ...

Magellan Global mirrors Berkshire strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
... stocks and is managed by former joint head of global banking at Deutsche Bank, Hamish Douglass and ex-chairman and former UBS Australasia chief executive, Chris Mackay. Moncrieff said while MFG's investment team consisted of 13 analysts, the research ...

UBS redefines fixed income

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 28 FEB 2008
UBS takes a fresh approach to fixed income investment with a new product that delivers above market performance by diversifying across four of the firm's fixed income funds. The UBS Fixed Income Plus includes fully automated investment decisions and ...

BlackRock fund treads allocation balance

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... strategies, and its target risk is consistent with an actively managed equity fund. The target return sits at 12 per cent above UBS bank bill rates over rolling three-year periods and is randomly correlated with major asset classes. The fund has since ...

UBS Aus equities will deliver: Shields

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
UBS has completed its Australian equities team restructure after appointing analysts Jeremy Bendiech and Shane Fitzgerald to the group. These appointments follow the departure of Paul Fiani and four senior members of the firm's Australian equities team ...

UBS and Genworth tap income-for-life market

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 15 FEB 2008
UBS Global Asset Management has teamed up with Genworth Financial to embark on a new venture catering to the employer-sponsored retirement plan segment in the US. UBS and retirement income solutions provider Genworth recently announced its agreement ...