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Thursday, 20 September 2012

Seagate Cloud Builder Alliance To Promote Cloud Innovation


Seagate has announced the Seagate Cloud Builder Alliance, a new strategic partner category within the company’s existing Seagate Partner Program. The new program provides technical information, customer insights, market knowledge and delivers partners the tools needed to expand their businesses providing cloud storage technology. The Seagate Cloud Builder Alliance highlights system builders that design, integrate, and deliver custom servers and storage systems used in cloud datacentres.

Through the Cloud Builder Alliance, partners will receive business and technology planning, sales and marketing resources, lead generation, training and certification, and system reference design development from Seagate Design Centres globally. The program will also equip members with dedicated sales tools including a cloud sales playbook, market insights and customer presentations. Select partners will collaborate with Seagate on solution development and reference designs, PR and marketing initiatives, and strategic direction and business planning. Seagate Cloud Builder Alliance participants include Ciara Technologies, Intequus, NuCloud Global, Supermicro, Xyratex, and ZT Systems to name a few.

“Seagate has a broad portfolio of storage solutions that are already deployed widely by leading cloud providers around the globe. The Seagate Cloud Alliance is an exciting new program to enable our cloud-focused system builder community to deepen their capability to design and deploy solutions that will accelerate private and public cloud adoption and grow their businesses,” said Scott Horn, Seagate Vice President, Marketing.



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Cloud Computing: from hype to reality
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Cloud storage services: the big four compared
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Seagate Cloud Builder Alliance To Promote Cloud Innovation
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Seagate has announced the Seagate Cloud Builder Alliance, a new strategic partner category within the company's existing Seagate Partner Program. The new program provides technical information, customer insights, market knowledge and delivers ...
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Private Cloud Computing: What It's Not and Why It Matters
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In USA too Funds Leap Beyond Their Benchmarks


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In USA too Funds Leap Beyond Their Benchmarks

In a world of shrinking bond yields, many mutual funds have found a way to make themselves look better.

Their secret: Invest in riskier bonds but continue to measure their performance against benchmarks composed of safer investments.

At least 187 bond funds, including those run by big asset managers such as Allianz SE's ALV.XE -0.78% Pacific Investment Management Co., Oppenheimer Funds Inc. and Putnam Investments, are handily beating the benchmarks against which they compare themselves, according to an analysis by investment-research firm Morningstar Inc. MORN +0.52% for The Wall Street Journal.

Many of them have done so by investing in high-yield corporate bonds, mortgage-backed securities and emerging-market debt, among other securities, according to Morningstar.

Of course, all active fund managers try to beat the benchmark. But concerns can arise when fund managers invest in bonds or other instruments in a proportion that is far off the benchmark. That makes it all the more important, experts say, for investors to keep tabs on their funds' holdings.


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Funds that stretch for higher yields could be at risk of steep losses if the market turns. In 2008, about 40 funds that held large positions in mortgage-backed securities and derivatives outside their benchmarks lost 10% or more, according to Morningstar.

"If they had been more closely tracking the index, a lot of those losses wouldn't have happened," said Eric Jacobson, Morningstar's director of fixed-income fund research.

Benchmarks are the main tool investors use to measure mutual funds' performance. But bond funds are free to choose—and change—their benchmarks.

The Securities and Exchange Commission requires funds to include in their annual reports a chart comparing their performance over a 10-year period with that of an "appropriate broad-based" securities benchmark. But there are no specific requirements, said SEC spokesman John Nester.


Bond mutual funds have boosted their performance this year, in part by deviating from the benchmark indexes they are supposed to resemble. Click on column headers to sort.


Fund prospectuses typically warn investors that managers reserve the right to invest outside their benchmarks as conditions warrant. At the same time, in marketing materials, funds often compare themselves against their benchmark as evidence of strong performance.

Lately, bond funds have been straying more than usual. The "tracking error," the term Morningstar uses for the amount that bond funds veer from their benchmarks, has averaged 2.20% for the 12 months through Aug. 31. (A reading of zero signifies perfect alignment with the benchmark.) The gap was 1.95% during the same period in 2011, according to Morningstar.

In the five years before the financial crisis, the deviation averaged 1.37%.

On average, bond funds beat their benchmarks in the year ended Aug. 31 by about 1 percentage point, according to Morningstar. During the corresponding period in 2011, they trailed their benchmarks by an average of half a point.

To be sure, other factors besides deviation from the benchmark can affect fund performance, such as the timing of bond purchases and sales. And not all funds that stray are rewarded for their daring: 102 of the funds Morningstar flagged had returns that lagged behind or matched their benchmark.

Still, many funds are holding much riskier bonds than their benchmark indexes would suggest—and for the moment are being rewarded.

Putnam Investments' Diversified Income Trust fund, with $3.4 billion in assets under management, has returned 9.4% in 2012, easily beating its benchmark, the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, which has returned 3.5%, according to Morningstar.

Almost three quarters of the Barclays index is devoted to low-yielding U.S. Treasurys and securities issued or backed by U.S. government agencies. The Putnam fund doesn't hold any of those types of bonds.

Instead, the fund has 30% of its holdings in high-yield corporate bonds, 17% in emerging-market bonds from countries like Russia and Venezuela, and 16% in non-agency mortgage-backed securities.

Bill Kohli, co-head of fixed income at Putnam and manager of Putnam Diversified Income Trust fund, said the fund makes it clear in its marketing material that it invests in a "range of investment opportunities" including emerging-market debt, high-yield bonds and mortgage-backed securities.

Oppenheimer Global Strategic Income Fund, with $8.7 billion in assets, has seen its tracking error jump from 6.9% to 7.5% in the past year, according to Morningstar. It holds no U.S. Treasurys, and has 30% invested in high-yield bonds and 32% invested in emerging-market debt, according to the company.

The fund has beaten its benchmark, the Barclays U.S. Aggregate Bond Index, by about 7 percentage points this year.


Art Steinmetz, Oppenheimer's chief investment officer, said other indexes might be a more appropriate performance gauge at the moment. But he said the fund frequently changes its holdings, as allowed in its investment mandate, and that it wouldn't make sense to change its benchmark often.

Pimco Total Return, the world's largest bond fund with $273 billion in assets under management, also used the Barclays index as its benchmark. Its tracking error rose to 3.62% at the end of August, compared with 2.75% last year and 1.55% in 2010, according to Morningstar.

Pimco co-chief investment officer and founder Bill Gross has slashed the fund's holdings in U.S. Treasurys to 21% of the portfolio in August, compared with 33% at the end of July. Half of the portfolio is held in a mix of non-agency and agency mortgages. The fund has returned 8.7% so far this year. Pimco declined to comment.

Jacob Wolkowitz, an investment manager at Minnesota-based Accredited Investors, which has about $1 billion in assets under management, said he recently shopped for new bond funds to invest client money.

In each call with fund managers, he said, he brought up the issue of their benchmark. Mr. Wolkowitz said six or seven years ago, bond fund benchmarks better reflected a fund's investments.



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ICICI Prudential Mutual Fund fixed-income head Chaitanya Pande quits
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3 investments to endure 3 more years of low rates
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Mutual funds join hands with PSU banks for rural reach
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With the SEBI regulations emphasising on higher participation from rural areas, mutual fund houses are further strengthening bank partnerships. In the last one month period, fund houses have been tying up with banks in a bid to increase their rural reach.
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Money fund assets fell $10.33 billion to $2.568 trillion in latest week
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Assets of the nation's retail money market mutual funds rose $1.88 billion to $888.73 billion, the Washington-based mutual fund trade group said. Assets of taxable money market funds in the retail category rose $2.2 billion to $700.1 billion. Tax ...
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Know the restrictions on cash investment in mutual funds
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Funds Leap Beyond Their Benchmarks
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Bond mutual funds have boosted their performance this year, in part by deviating from the benchmark indexes they are supposed to resemble. Click on column headers to sort. View Interactive. Fund prospectuses typically warn investors that managers ...
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Reliance Mutual Fund buys 1.88 lakh shares of Supreme Infra
Moneycontrol.com
On September 18, 2012 Reliance Mutual Fund bought 188,607 shares of Supreme Infrastructure India at Rs 285. In last trading session the share ended at Rs 295, up Rs 9.95, or 3.49%. It touched an intraday high of Rs 301.35 and an intraday low of Rs 285.
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Govt sets the ball rolling for PSU Exchange Traded Fund
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Tuesday, 18 September 2012

No frill airline IndiGo continued its spree of carrying the maximum number of passengers




 No frill airline IndiGo continued its spree of carrying the maximum number of passengers besides having the largest market share in August, as Civil Aviation Minister Ajit Singh, concerned over Air India's performance, asked the national carrier to prepare a plan to enhance its share.

There was a minor increase of 0.5 per cent in the total number of passengers carried in January-August this year compared with the period last year, official data showed.

IndiGo carried 12.05 lakh passengers last month, followed by Jet Airways-JetLite combined flying 11.01 lakh, SpiceJetBSE -1.30 % 8.07 lakh, Air India 7.94 lakh and GoAir 3.24 lakh.

The worst performer was cash-strapped Kingfisher AirlinesBSE 3.70 % which carried only 1.38 lakh passengers in August, while the new scheduled carrier Air Mantra of Religare, which is operating only two small 17-seater aircraft since July 23, flew a few hundred air travellers to Chandigarh and Amritsar.

In terms of market share, IndiGo was again on top with 27.6 per cent, followed by Jet-JetLite combine with 25.2, SpiceJet with 18.5, Air India 18.2, GoAir with 7.4 and Kingfisher at the end of the list with 3.2 per cent.

Concerned over the national carrier's performance, the Minister asked Air India to submit to him in a week's time a plan to enhance its share in the domestic passenger market.

The plan should include month-wise targets of market share along with corresponding strategy to achieve these targets over the next one year, an official spokesman said.

Noting that Air India had maintained the 18.2 per cent level since July, Singh asked Air India to work out innovative and customer-focused strategies to achieve optimum utilisation of all planes. The data also showed that while IndiGo's passenger load factor (average seats sold in an aircraft) was the highest at 73.4 per cent, most of the other airlines remained between 66 and 68 per cent.

These airlines are Air India, Jet Airways, JetLite, SpiceJet and GoAir.

The lowest passenger load factor among the major carriers was Kingfisher with only 53.2 per cent.

Air Mantra of Religare, whose load factor was only 9.1 per cent, also had the maximum flight cancellations at 32.3 per cent, followed by Kingfisher way behind at 7.4 per cent.

Air India was among those carriers which had the lowest The data also showed that while IndiGo's passenger load factor (average seats sold in an aircraft) was the highest at 73.4 per cent, most of the other airlines remained between 66 and 68 per cent.

These airlines are Air India, Jet Airways, JetLite, SpiceJet and GoAir.

The lowest passenger load factor among the major carriers was Kingfisher with only 53.2 per cent.

Air Mantra of Religare, whose load factor was only 9.1 per cent, also had the maximum flight cancellations at 32.3 per cent, followed by Kingfisher way behind at 7.4 per cent.

Air India was among those carriers which had the lowest cancellations at 1.7 per cent and IndiGo the least at 0.3 per cent, the official figures showed.cancellations at 1.7 per cent and IndiGo the least at 0.3 per cent, the official figures showed.













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