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Investment

Lazard lowers minimum investments on four funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
The minimum investment in four Lazard Asset Management funds has dropped by $80,000 in a bid to attract self-managed super fund investors.

New SIV rules target smaller companies boost

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 18 MAY 2015
From July new Significant Investor Visa (SIV) applicants must invest a minimum of $5 million across three complying arrangements after new rules were formally announced by the federal government.

Western unconstrained strategy wins first mandate

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
One of Western Asset Management's unconstrained strategies has won its first mandate from a large institutional investor in Australia.

Instos doing little to protect portfolios

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Global institutional investors are unperturbed by the threat of a market correction and continue to pile into equities.

Morphic added to Macquarie platforms

STAFF WRITER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Morphic Asset Management's Global Opportunities Fund (MGOF) has been added to the Macquarie Wrap Super and Pension Platform.

Property groups looking through the schooner glass

DARREN SNYDER  |  FRIDAY, 15 MAY 2015
Australian property groups who recently made hospitality acquisitions may feel their choices are vindicated by a new report suggesting alcohol consumption has "rebounded" in the country.

XTB launch opens corporate bonds to retail

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
The Australian Corporate Bond Company (ACBC) has launched 17 exchange traded bond units (XTBs) that will provide investors with exposure to returns from individual corporate bonds issued by the top 50 ASX listed companies.

HSBC pitches low vol strategy to instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
Investors with a long term focus could benefit from a strategy that targets low volatility at a moment when it is expected to raise, HSBC global asset management's head of global equities Angus Parker said.

Aussie banks overpriced, undercapitalised: Perpetual

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
Australian financials are overpriced and undercapitalised relative to their global counterparts, Perpetual Investments global equities portfolio manager Garry Laurence said.

King to relaunch Sovereign after Mercer restructure

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 14 MAY 2015
Investment adviser and Mercer partner Ray King has left the business and will reestablish the alternatives consultancy firm he founded in 2000, Sovereign Investment Research.