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UK to consider Australia model for small pension fund mergers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
Support is gathering for the UK government to follow in Australia's footsteps and merge small local authority pension funds after Financial Times research revealed huge disparities in fees paid to fund managers.

William Blair targets super fund investors with 'game theory'

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
Chicago-based asset manager William Blair's head of dynamic allocation strategies Brian Singer has been in Australia promoting the firm's Macro Allocation Fund to institutional investors.

Morphic global equities fund reaches $25m

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 28 MAY 2013
The Morphic Asset Management Australian Global Equities Fund has gone from $5 million in assets under management to more than $25 million since inception in August, 2012.

EQT gives more time to The Trust Company

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
Equity Trustees (EQT) is giving The Trust Company shareholders more time to consider its offer, which will now close on July 31, 2013.

Gold as an "insurance" against inflation: Lazard

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
Gold can be a good "insurance policy" against inflation as global central banks are following a policy of quantitative easing (QE) that could devalue the money, according to Lazard.

BNP Paribas opens global equity trust to Australia

STAFF WRITER  |  MONDAY, 27 MAY 2013
BNP Paribas Investment Partners has opened the Carnegie WorldWide Equity Trust to Australian wholesale investors.

Platinum remains bullish on Japan

ALICE URIBE  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
Profits for Japanese companies are set to get higher despite the country already being in a bull market said Kerr Neilson, chief executive and founder of Platinum Asset Management.

Pressure on benchmark affects managers performance: Cuffe

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
The pressure on fund managers to outperform benchmarks on the short term could be preventing them from achieving high returns, UniSuper chairman and founding director of Third Link Investment Managers Chris Cuffe said.

AUI investors approve property fund merger

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
Investors in Australian Unity Investments' (AUI) Second Industrial Trust (SIT) have voted in favour of a merge with AUI's Office Property Fund (OPF) at a meeting of investors in Melbourne.

AllianceBernstein launches tail risk protection strategy

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 24 MAY 2013
Tail risk, or the risk of suffering losses greater than statistically normal ranges, is a much greater threat to portfolios than volatility, global asset manager AllianceBernstein warns.