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van Eyk launches new asset allocation tool

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 13 NOV 2012
Investment research house van Eyk has launched a new tactical asset allocation tool for advisers. The new tool forms part of the release of version 4.0 of iRate, the online portal which gives van Eyk's clients access its fund manager and shares research ...

van Eyk awards small cap managers' highest rating

MARK STORY  |  MONDAY, 5 NOV 2012
van Eyk Research has awarded three funds its top 'AA' rating in a new review of the small cap sector. Lead analyst on the review Varun Venkatraman said all the strategies reviewed had outperformed both the S&P/ASX Small Ordinaries index and the S&P/ASX200 ...

Standard Risk Measure misleading

BEN COLLINS  |  TUESDAY, 23 OCT 2012
... Investors may have already been misled by the Standard Risk Measure adopted by superannuation funds, said research house Van Eyk. Anomalies are caused by funds being able to choose how they calculate the risk of a product, said Van Eyk's head of strategic ...

AMP re-signs van Eyk for three years

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  THURSDAY, 20 SEP 2012
Following a recent review, AMP Financial Services has re-signed van Eyk Research for another three years to provide the Group's advisers with access to the research provider's iRate online platform. The iRate platform provides the Group's advisers with ...

Macquarie focuses on independents with Visor

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  THURSDAY, 16 AUG 2012
... of the existing research offering, integrating a Mercer Investments feed to sit alongside existing research feeds from Van Eyk, Lonsec and Morningstar.

Long-volatility a loss-maker: van Eyk

BEN COLLINS  |  MONDAY, 6 AUG 2012
... volatility strategy is active management as long-only positions can lead to losses, said a recently released paper by van Eyk. van Eyk's research tested a number of different investment portfolios, which combined varying amounts of volatility strategies ...

Aberdeen fixed income manager resigns

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  FRIDAY, 13 JUL 2012
... material to the ratings of the Aberdeen Australian Fixed and Floating Rate Funds," said Jason Blumberg senior analyst at van Eyk. "We will be meeting with Aberdeen's management in the coming days to better understand the full impact of this announcement ...

Lonsec changes index funds research process

LINDA HAUSKEN  |  MONDAY, 4 JUN 2012
... conducting a peer relative assessment of people and resources, investment process, liquidity and performance," added Elsworth. van Eyk initiated coverage of exchange traded index funds (ETFs) last year and recently changed its ratings method to reflect ...

Active risk under spotlight

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2012
... tracking error is good, so long as it's in combination with persistent excess returns." Recent analysis by ratings house van Eyk on its database found that if three randomly selected active managers were combined in a portfolio, only two stockholdings ...

Gensler to depart T. Rowe Price

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2012
... for the T. Rowe Price Global Technology Fund will take over Gensler's responsibilities in other regions. Ratings agency Van Eyk, which announced the retirement yesterday said there would be no change to the high ratings of the fund. "We have a high regard ...