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Funds management
Van Eyk Research has awarded five managers – Alliance Research, Barclays Global Investors, Capital, Massachusetts Financial Services and Wellington (Global Research) – it...
People & Products
HSBC Asset Management Australia has appointed a new head of Australian equities, Robert Hook, four months after the departure of previous equity head and chief investment...
People & Products
Deutsche Asset Management (DeAM) has appointed Cathy Hales to the newly created position of head of product for its Australian operations....
Financial planning
UBS Global Asset Management will aim to increase its international equities funds under management following yesterday’s announcement that Colin Woods will now head up it...
Financial planning
State Street Global Advisors (SSgA) Australia has appointed former Westpac Investment Management chief investment officer Don Hamson into the newly created role of head o...
Editorial
Investors have long held a bias to investing at home and, as Lochiel Crafter writes, this is understandable but does not justify current portfolio weightings....
Financial planning
Why do some global managers hear music, and others just noise, when playing the international equities market? Glenn Poswell reports....
Financial planning
InvestorWeb has reacted to BT Funds Management’s decision to outsource its international equities management to Putnam by rating funds in this area with a buy recommendat...
Financial planning
First State Investments (UK) Ltd, the UK investment arm of Colonial First State Investments Group, has entered into an agreement that will see it directly market its own ...
Financial planning
The use of stock options as part of executives’ remuneration led to an unspoken pact between investors and corporation management that has exacerbated the current malaise...
Financial planning
The asset management arm of the BT group will be re-branded in the coming months to Principal Global Investors (PGI) as part of the global integration of Principal and BT...
Funds management
>AMP head of strategy and chief economist Shane Oliver says while emerging markets are generally out of investor favour, the asset class is geared to the global economy a...
Financial planning
The US economy will avoid recession as long as consumer spending continues at the same rate, says Perennial Investment Partners co-head of global equities Scott King....
Funds management
BNP Paribas Asset Management has listed Australia’s first actively managed Exchange Traded Funds (ETF’s)....
Financial planning
The New York Stock Exchange will run a pilot program this year to test a global stock exchange, comprising ten of the world’s leading markets, including Australia. This G...
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