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Super mergers drive new trends in asset consulting

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 1 APR 2011
Rising M&A activity in superannuation is forcing asset consultants to lift their game or risk being edged out by their rivals - and the leading players are future-proofing their business through bigger investment teams and sharpened investment models. ...

C'mon, Aussie, c'mon

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 29 MAR 2011
Want a growth stock, a real growth stock? Look no further than our very own Australian dollar. After hitting parity with the once mighty greenback back in October last year, it drowned when this year's floods devastated most of Queensland, parts of ...

CFS GAM resources team lose two analysts

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAR 2011
CFS Global Asset Management (CFS GAM) has lost two of its senior analysts, Chris Baker and Darko Kuzmanovic, with plans to hire at least two new team members. Portfolio manager Todd Warren has assumed management responsibility for the global resources ...

BTIM sales head joins UBS GAM

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... position at UBS Global Asset Management. Doherty starts his role at UBS in mid-May and will be reporting to Ben Heap, head of UBS GAM in Australia. Meanwhile, Lachlan Cameron, who joined BTIM as a senior account manager in November 2009, has been promoted ...

Infra asset demand buoy CFS GAM and RARE

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 17 MAR 2011
Global infrastructure funds managed by Colonial First State Global Asset Management (CFS GAM) and RARE Infrastructure have increased their teams on the back of fresh mandate wins. Colonial First State Global Asset Management's global listed infrastructure ...

Game changer

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAR 2011
During these terribly horrible times, particularly for the people of Japan, it would seem callous - perhaps even a sacrilege -- to be contemplating about investing and profiting from what Japanese Prime Minister Naoto Kan described as the worst since ...

Global shares, cat bonds review after Japan quake

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 14 MAR 2011
... Australia with insurance-linked securities. Cat bond access for retail investors was recently launched by investment manager GAM and Fermat Capital Management, he said, with minimum investment of $25,000. Institutional asset manager Nephila Capital offers ...

CMC markets appoints new head for Aus, NZ

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
Louis Cooper has replaced Barry Odes as head of CMC Markets Australia and New Zealand. Cooper has worked with the broking firm since 1999 when it was a foreign exchange trading business in London with just 35 staff. "I was there in 2000 when they launched ...

Oil outlook flips on economy flop

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 11 MAR 2011
Dateline 11 March 2011. The "Day of Rage." This was supposed to happen in Saudi Arabia, its end game anticipated to determine of what goes after in the MENA region, the price of crude and the outlook for the global economy. Pure coincidence perhaps ...

New benchmarks act like analysts

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
An experimental index-filtering exchange-traded fund could one day put professional stock-pickers out of a job, the product's developer has said. Investment services firm Russell Investments has developed a series of portfolio construction tools with ...