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H2O scores Mercer mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 15 AUG 2011
Mercer Investments has nominated a $100 million mandate to London-based global bond manager, H2O Asset Management. The mandate was allocated into the global sovereign and currency strategy, as announced by H2O's Australian affiliate, Apostle Asset Management. ...

US$50bn US manager lands in Sydney

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 JUL 2011
US based global equity and fixed income specialist Artio Global Investors has set up an office in Sydney with designs to attract super fund investment and increase distribution into Asia. The manager, which has almost US$50 billion in assets under management ...

Unitholders ask ASIC/NSX to ban cap raising

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 9 MAY 2011
Premium Income Fund unitholders have requested regulatory bodies stop a planned capital raising, deeming the raising as 'unfair' to all unitholders. In a letter to the Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) and National Stock Exchange ...

US manager charged with fraud

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
The US corporate watchdog has cracked down on a Long Island-based money manager for engaging in a fraudulent investment program, which cost investors $8 million in illicit commissions and fees. Warren Nadel, through his investment advisory firm Registered ...

Man wins $1.08 billion mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 APR 2010
Man Investments has won a $1.08 billion managed account mandate from one of the biggest pension funds in the UK, the $46 billion Universities Superannuation Scheme. The mandate will be managed from Man's UK headquarters and investment team, said Kit ...

T. Rowe Price expands India footprint

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2009
US-based fund manager T. Rowe Price Group could soon become one of the first US managers to gain unprecedented access to India's burgeoning investments industry after it bought a stake in UTI Asset Management, the country's fourth largest fund manager. ...

Global funds lose $20trn to GFC

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 OCT 2009
The global financial crisis wiped out nearly $20 trillion from the assets of the world's top 500 fund managers, new research found. Funds managed by the world's largest 500 fund managers fell by over 23 per cent last year to US$53.4 trillion ($60 trillion) ...

Officium Capital hires new 'best ideas' manager

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Officium Capital has selected Souls Funds Management to manage its concentrated best ideas fund after the previous manager, MMC Asset Management was sold last month. John Nunan, chief executive at Officium Capital, said the fund didn't want to leave ...

Enhanced Investment Technologies wins award

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 DEC 2008
... Alternative Investment Management Awards (SAIMA), sponsored by the UK-based publication Professional Pensions. The US manager managed to beat finalists AXA Rosenberg, Barclays Global Investors, Invesco, Nicholas Applegate Capital Management and State ...

Vanguard on the hunt for new head of marketing

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 2 DEC 2008
Vanguard is searching for a new head of marketing after Colin Bold leaves the company, citing personal reasons. Bold has been with the company for three years and saw the local index fund manager grow to a $60 billion-plus manager with the Future Fund ...