Lonsec releases its Global Equity Fund Sector Review

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Lonsec’s latest Global Equity Fund Sector Review included 36 large cap and three small cap funds. x Of these, nine large cap funds attained Lonsec’s top rating, Highly Recommended, including

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BetaShares Capital Ltd: Australia sets the standard in ETF regulation

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BetaShares Capital Ltd (BetaShares), one of Australia’s leading exchange traded fund (ETF) providers, says Australia is leading the way with best practice standards for regulating ETFs that are designed to ensure Australia

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Is it time for an equities comeback?

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Paul Taylor, Head of Australian Equities at Fidelity and Portfolio Manager of the Fidelity Australian Equities Fund, provides his outlook for the Australian stock market and why the market is

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Junji Okabayashi joins Threadneedle as senior advisor, based in Singapore

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Leading international asset manager Threadneedle has appointed Junji Okabayashi as Senior Advisor, based in its Singapore office. Mr Okabayashi joins the growing Threadneedle team under Asia Pacific Chairman Raymundo Yu,

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Limited long-term impact on global markets from earthquake

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While the recent events in Japan will have a short-term impact on the global economy, history suggests that in the long term, markets will not be majorly affected, according to

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Threadneedle Investment Strategy Update April 2011

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Risk assets have absorbed an awful lot of bad news over the past month and their resilience can be ascribed partly to the attractive valuations that have long underpinned our

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S&P Withdraws Rating On ING Global Equity Opportunities Fund At Manager's Request

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Standard & Poor’s Fund Services today withdrew its ratings on the ING Global Equity Opportunities Fund at the request of the manager, ING Investment Management Ltd. x This follows the

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AMP Capital Investors acquires first Paris property asset

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AMP Capital’s Global Direct Property Fund (GDPF) has acquired a high quality seven-storey office building in L’avenue de Wagram, one of the premier precincts in the Paris CBD region, for

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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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