Regulators should not judge super funds on size alone, Russell warns

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Recommends trustees use comprehensive test to meet scale requirements Know your fund first – evaluate before reacting to scale concerns Russell Investments is calling on trustees and industry regulators to

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Insync FM Sees 2011 as a good time to buy global shares

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Why International Equities Now? International equity fund manager, Insync Funds Management, believes that now is the time to buy global stocks. “Over the last ten years large cap global shares

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Lonsec releases its Large Cap Australian Equity Sector Review

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Lonsec’s review of the Large Cap Australian Equity Fund sector encompassed 36 active funds within the peer group considered “mainstream” funds. Of these, 10 attained Lonsec’s top rating, Highly Recommended,

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Key Global Investor Themes for Next 12 – 18 Months

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Chinese inflation – should lead to a lower $A Emerging markets inflation European debt woes not really resolved US economy may surprise on the upside, largely due US multinationals International

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Aviva Investors builds direct property presence in Australia

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Aviva Investors today announced the appointment of Matthew Woodman as Senior Fund Manager within the Global Real Estate team and will be based in Sydney. Matthew’s appointment represents the first

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What to look for now in global equities

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As the world keeps changing, so does the way you should look for investment opportunities around the globe. You do not always have to invest directly in emerging markets to

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EQT appoints new head of wealth management business

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Continuing the strategy of strengthening and reorganising operations, Mr Robin Burns, managing director of Equity Trustees Limited (EQT), has announced the appointment of Mr Philip Galagher as head of its

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Experience & Long-term Results Underpins Zenith’s ISAM Systematic Fund ‘Recommended’ Rating

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Zenith Investment Partners Pty Ltd (Zenith) Head of Alternatives Research Daniel Liptak has announced that International Standard Asset Management (ISAM) Systematic Fund has received a RECOMMENDED rating. With offices in

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Bucking the trend in active asset management

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Aviva Investors’ delivers outperformance over 1, 3, 5 years While recent research from Standard & Poor’s (S&P)1, announced this week, shows that most active Australian equities managers are failing to

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Big name Research Award winners show ESG emerging from its niche

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ESG ‘box-ticking’ no longer makes the grade, say judges, as Citi, Goldman Sachs, take out awards High calibre entries from some of the country’s biggest broking and other financial services

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