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New partner for First Quadrant

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... "[Despite being made partner] my position hasn't changed, so I will still be focusing on new strategy development, innovative research, and product enhancements. I will also be involved in trading mechanisms and our investment products, including equities ...

Super funds to hold firm despite market crisis

... Super suggest Australian super funds will ride the market volatility and stay in the black by year-end. Analysts and research firms have mixed forecasts about how super funds will perform this year. Some have gone as far as predicting that an average ...

Austock High Yield gets three stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... has extended its reach into the financial planning industry after its High Yield Fund received a three star rating from research specialist Standard & Poor's. According to Austock Asset Management (Austock), the fund is invested in Australian corporate ...

GSJBWAM appoints infrastructure exec

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 17 JAN 2008
... Australian Infrastructure Wholesale Fund. In October last year, Hare won the IFSA/Deloitte Future Leaders Award for his research into the implications of climate change on the investment industry. Geoff Frankish, head of infrastructure at GSJBWAM, said ...

Quadrant members say no to email

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... the members Tasmanian super Quadrant prefer to have their super fund information sent by snail mail. The TNS conducted research found 13 per cent of Quadrant super members preferred their superannuation statements emailed to them, meanwhile 76 per cent ...

BRIC sector splits SRI managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JAN 2008
... BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) markets, leading to inconsistent returns for SRI investors. According to Mercer research, emerging markets gained 25.1 per cent for Australian investors, more than double the 10 per cent return of major European ...

Centro appoints new head

... executive of New Plan, prior to its acquisition by Centro in April last year. Mark Wist, head of Property Investment Research (PIR) group's research and reporting division, said of the announcement, "The change in chief executive was almost inevitable ...

Funds SA splurges $1.4b on mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... allocation to Barclays Global Investors, another leading quant manager. Smith also singled out GSJBW's in-depth quantitative research and its application to the Australian market as the building blocks behind the mandate's appointment. "This mandate ...

GM takes sustainability mainstream

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
... companies coming out so publicly on peak oil and the collective need to move rapidly to new fuel sources also means the research required to make the jumps will now attract the sums of money it has always needed. This sharply focused new thinking is ...

SMSFs lead charge

... be that they want an SMSF to supplement their current [retail] fund or their existing funds," she said. Analysts and research groups including Investment Trends have long predicted that SMSFs could soon supplant the retail fund segment as the default ...