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Fee pressure turns super funds to smart beta

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 AUG 2015
... strategies]." Pidgeon said that some are "looking to consolidate their relationships with managers across active and passive" in a bid to have "less fund managers and lower fees." HSBC Global Asset Management deputy chief investment officer for equities ...

Member engagement a danger to super savings

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 23 JUL 2015
... This has become a concern in the current low return environment, where members could be switching to riskier investments in a bid to increase their returns. "The real risk now is that we're entering a repressed return environment and people will continue ...

AMP expands US credit research team

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 17 JUL 2015
AMP Capital has appointed four people to its Chicago-based credit research team in a bid to increase its understanding of US high yield markets. Alexander Shire will join the team on 20 July 2015 as senior portfolio manager. He has 15 years of research ...

Government could force QIC to fund Queensland infra

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... new approaches, new partnerships and better ways of doing things," he said. Pitt also said that, as part of the government's bid to reduce debt, contributions to QSuper's defined benefit scheme will freeze for the next five years. This is expected to ...

Australian funds turning to bourgeoning Asian REITs

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2015
... family offices and these owners may take the decision to sell to REITs to realise gains on their investments. Secondly, in a bid to recapitalise for their next projects, Chinese commercial developers are becoming natural sellers to REITs. Thirdly, a ...

Northern Trust wins NZ Super mandate

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... Northern Trust's recent decision to establish an asset management sales and relationship management presence in Melbourne in a bid to service its New Zealand clients as close to their home market as possible.

Temporary trial separation

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2015

From Greece's frying pan into China's fire

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 9 JUL 2015
What Greece has started, China's finishing. To be sure, the tragi-comedy that is Greece is far from over, not with crunch time moments ever so foreverly moved - 23 February was the first "this is it moment" for Athens, that became 24 Feb, that became ...

Market to open flat

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 2 JUL 2015
... Index gained 26.26 (0.53 per cent) to 5,013.12. European equities jumped as investors reacted positively to news of Greece's bid for a new bailout. Eurozone policy makers said they would not negotiate until Sunday's referendum in Greece on creditors' ...

Joining AIIB unlocks billions of infra investment

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 25 JUN 2015
... win-win." Collins added the AIIB could also provide a platform for Australia to internationally promote the use of the inverted bid model to cut bid costs and other barriers to entry to greenfield infrastructure projects for long term equity investors.A ...