Michael Power

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Aussie investors should get out more: Urwin

Australian institutions’ prevailing home-country equity bias was based on a series of lucky breaks for the domestic market and was not worth the concentration risks to which it exposed investors, said Roger Urwin, Towers Watson’s global head of investment content.

SIMON MUMMENovember 17, 2010

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Commodities and emerging markets funds will run the gauntlet

There are eight “gauntlets” that any managed fund will have to run over the medium term, according to Investec Asset Management investment strategist Michael Power, and while a Japanese equity fund might be lucky to meet one of them, funds investing in commodities or the emerging markets would satisfy almost all eight.

MICHAEL BAILEYSeptember 22, 2010