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Ex-Allianz Global retail head joins S&P

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 10 JUL 2008
Ratings house Standard & Poor's Fund Services has appointed Leanne Milton as its new head of fund research. Milton will report to the head of fund services, Mark Hoven and will assume primary analytical and management responsibility for S&P's Fund Research ...

Unlisted assets poised for higher illiquidity premiums

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... because of the credit crunch. Going on a different vantage point, Doug Higgins, associate director at Property Investment Research (PIR), said investors should look beyond the listed versus unlisted debate and analyse the quality of the underlying property. ...

Ex-TGM chief economist moves to QIC

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
... Peter will provide macro-economic analysis across QIC's alpha and beta management processes and supervise its economic research division. Brad Holzberger, QIC Asset Management chief executive, said Peter's role is vital because QIC placed a lot of emphasis ...

CAAM eyes retail

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 JUL 2008
Credit Agricole Asset Management (CAAM) has come a long way since it first opened its doors to the Aussie insto market over a year ago. Today the fund manager is aiming to get into platforms and aim for bigger mandates. Richard Borysiewicz, country ...

GMO expands Aus equities team

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 7 JUL 2008
... new role, Wells will participate in all aspects of managing GMO's Australian equity portfolios as a senior quantitative research analyst, while primarily focusing on alpha model research. Mark Thompson joined GMO on 23 June 2008 as a senior quantitative ...

Women dropping out of financial services

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... inability to attract women with tertiary qualifications to the industry. These are among the findings of a Roy Morgan Research survey of employment trends in the industry, commissioned by the Financial Services Institute of Australasia and published ...

ABS cutbacks bad idea

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 4 JUL 2008
... cutting back surveys and sampling depth in key economic areas as it meet savings targets outlined in the Federal Budget. Research and development for labour market, social, prices and demography statistics will be wound back, as will some aspects of ...

BNY Mellon taps distressed debt

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... in this area are fairly solid. We've got an intimate knowledge of their proceedings [and] there are 63 that are in our research system dedicated to doing distressed investing," he said. MGAI also practices an active management approach to the fund's ...

S&P place Advance Asian fund 'on hold'

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... relations," said Gorman. "Lion's value style investment philosophy is similar to that of Maple-Brown Abbott and uses bottom up research to identify companies that have strong economic fundamentals." Advance Asset Management's Asian Equity fund was set ...

Sparks fly at APRA statistics forum

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 3 JUL 2008
... that they are not properly reporting investment returns. Charles Littrell, APRA's executive general manager of policy, research and statistics said superannuation is a $1.1 trillion industry and it plays a central economic role. This is intensifying ...