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Investment Strategy

Australia wants more emerging markets (Corrected)*

(This article was corrected November 17.) *Australian superannuation and industry funds want to bolster their investments in emerging markets stocks to as much as 40 per cent of their total global equity holdings, says Neuberger Berman LLC.

I & T NewsNovember 16, 2011

Investment Strategy

Interview with UBS AG’s George Boubouras

George Boubouras, head of investment strategy at UBS AG in Australia, talks about Europe, the state of the global economy and investment options for investors.

I & T NewsNovember 15, 2011

Investment Strategy

Super funds will struggle to cut costs further

Warren Chant, a director of a research firm that focuses on superannuation, doubts whether any superannuation fund can achieve a 66 basis point cost per member as targeted in the Cooper Review of superannuation.

I & T NewsNovember 1, 2011

Investment Strategy

VisionSuper’s Peter Rowe: “Insurance forgotten by trustees”

Australian superannuation funds must develop insurance offerings for MySuper and choice products while rationalising their insurance product model, says Peter Rowe, general manager of business operations at VisionSuper.

I & T NewsOctober 25, 2011

Investment Strategy

Superannuation funds post worst returns since collapse of Lehman

A typical Australian superannuation fund in the third quarter has posted its worst return since the bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., says Warren Chant, director of Chant West, a research firm that focuses on superannuation.

I & T NewsOctober 24, 2011

Investment Strategy

Australia’s best fund managers named

Fund rating firm Standard & Poor’s, in association with Professional Planner magazine, has named the best fund managers in Australia for 2011.

I & T NewsOctober 18, 2011

Investment Strategy

Maple-Brown Abbott acquires funds from Advance

Maple-Brown Abbott Ltd. has acquired the management rights of two funds from Advance Asset Management Ltd. The purchase price was not disclosed.

I & T NewsOctober 11, 2011

Investment Strategy

Riverside Co. co-CEO Stewart Kohl sees Australian buyout opportunities

Riverside Co., which says they are more Mahatma Gandhi than Wall Street’s fictional Gordon Gekko, says the deleveraging of the global economy is presenting a challenge for leverage buyout firms.

I & T NewsSeptember 20, 2011

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