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Swedish backtracker: AP3 retreats from equities but ploughs into alternatives

Like all other pension funds, Sweden’s AP3 is a long term investor. However, the extraordinary circumstances of the last 18 months has forced the fund to reconsider its short-term risk appetite, and whether there are better ways to allocate its risk budget in this highly volatile environment. “We, as is every fund in the world, […]

Staff WriterMarch 30, 2009

Hedge Funds

Swedish backtracker: AP3 retreats from equities but ploughs into alternatives

Like all other pension funds, Sweden’s AP3 is a long term investor. However, the extraordinary circumstances of the last 18 months has forced the fund to reconsider its short-term risk appetite, and whether there are better ways to allocate its risk budget in this highly volatile environment. “We, as is every fund in the world, […]

Staff WriterMarch 30, 2009

Investment Strategy

Aussie share multimanagers unhappy after S&P review

Staff WriterOctober 1, 2008

Investment Strategy

Portfolio Partners loses financials analyst to sell-side

Six months after starting at Melbourne-based Australian equities manager Portfolio Partners, a financials analyst has been lured to the sell-side at Credit Suisse in Sydney.

Staff WriterJune 3, 2008

Hedge Funds

Portfolio Partners loses financials analyst to sell-side

Six months after starting at Melbourne-based Australian equities manager Portfolio Partners, a financials analyst has been lured to the sell-side at Credit Suisse in Sydney.

Staff WriterJune 3, 2008

Hedge Funds

UBS GAM ‘too valuable to be sold’

UBS Global Asset Management (UBS GAM) is likely to emerge intact even as its parent company is battling serious shareholder activism challenges to its integrated business model, analysts and other industry experts said. “The asset management business … has critical mass, with the prestige factor … it’s a mammoth player, and I don’t believe that […]

Staff WriterMay 1, 2008

Hedge Funds

UBS GAM ‘too valuable to be sold’

UBS Global Asset Management (UBS GAM) is likely to emerge intact even as its parent company is battling serious shareholder activism challenges to its integrated business model, analysts and other industry experts said. “The asset management business … has critical mass, with the prestige factor … it’s a mammoth player, and I don’t believe that […]

Staff WriterMay 1, 2008

Investment Strategy

SHAW offers to do it your way

SHAW Stockbroking has released a new ‘discretionary managed account’, which it claimed can sidestep the dangers and inflexibilty posed to investors by pooled vehicles.

Staff WriterMay 23, 2006