Telstra Super chief investment officer Jim Christensen has begun building out his investment team, eschewing the fellow displaced QIC colleagues one might have expected for a pair that includes ...

When someone is nervous about having to speak in front of lots of people, they are often told to imagine their audience naked. The theory goes that if the crowd looks ridiculous in your mind’s eye, ...

Hall, head of Hermes Fund Managers’ domestic sales office, has enlisted a former Fortis colleague to help market the many boutiques run by the UK manufacturer. (more…) Arnhem Investment Management, ...

BT Investment Management (BTIM) has appointed two portfolio managers to its macro and income strategies teams as it considers recruiting a merger and acquisition specialist to attract would-be ...

For as scared as everyone gets about the prospect of losing their job, it’s remarkable how often the de-commissioned sound relaxed, even pleased, about what’s just happened to them. Tim Hannon, a ...

Mean-variance analysis, despite all of its shortcomings, does offer a few strong points – it is the workhorse of the industry, it offers a tractable outcome and is easy to implement. We sought to ...

That is, however, one of a number of potential strategies that MICHAEL BAILEY, GREG BRIGHT, SIMON MUMME and STEPHEN SHORE discuss with investment decision-makers over the following pages. Interesting ...

Readers of Mark Mobius’s book Passport to Profits will know of the 84 ‘Mobius Rules’ to emerging markets investing, which the investment guru has crafted over 21 years running the asset class for ...

There will be bear-market rallies in the near term, but even if markets have bottomed, that does not mean they are going in only one direction from here, according to Mark O’Brien, CIO of AMP Capital ...

Hedge fund managers will be forced to lower their base fees by as much as 50 per cent in coming months if they plan to attract the capital of superannuation funds, asset consultants Watson Wyatt have ...

FuturePlus, the investment manager for the Energy Industries Super Scheme and Chifley Financial Services, has attracted the head of investments for a $12 billion fund as its new CIO. (more…) Equity ...

With only $20 million under management, some would say Australian equities boutique Bellwether Partners should be reconsidering its future in this environment, however founder Bruce Bell has so far ...