GLOBAL EQUITIES

Funds management

The Asian equity market excluding Japan is the asset class that will deliver the strongest returns in the coming year, according to the chief economist of AMP Capital Inv...

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Funds management

Global equities now appear to be better relative value than Australian equities, and provide diversification against significant security and sector-specific risks in the...

Funds management

Global equities are being supported by buoyant liquidity despite fund managers remaining concerned about the outlook for corporate earnings, according to a Merrill Lynch ...

Editorial

A 5 per cent increase in first quarter funds under management by Perpetual Investments has encouraged the group to forecast a 10 per cent increase in interim after-tax op...

Funds management

A record 80 per cent of Australian investment managers now favour global equities over every other asset class, according to the March 2006 Russell Investment Manager Out...

Financial planning

Equity Trustees is to act as responsible entity for a new wholesale AXA Rosenberg global equities fund....

Financial planning

The Bank of Ireland has restructured its investment arm Bank of Ireland Asset Management, which has involved three new appointments at managing director level....

Financial planning

Fixed income specialist FIIG Securities Limited has called for greater transparency in the interest rate market and greater investment diversification from retail investo...

Rate the raters

The Money Management Rating the Raters Survey 2006 collected opinions from 43 fund managers of varying size that control just over $537 billion in funds under management....

Funds management

The number of global emerging market (GEM) equity funds is set to increase in Australia, according to Standard and Poor’s inaugural review of the international equities e...

Financial planning

Multi managers offered mixed performance in 2005 with growth multi-managers and those in global equities achieving strong results, while multi-managers in the Australian ...

Financial planning

Investors should increase their exposure to overseas markets, according to ING Investment Management chief executive Grant Bailey....

Financial planning

Traditional methods of portfolio construction should be abandoned, as they cannot cater for some asset classes such as options, have difficulty accounting for global equi...

Financial planning

MLC has taken the unusual step of terminating a mandate with Platinum Asset Management, one of four managers dropped in a global equity overhaul aimed at boosting after-t...

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