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Platypus Asset Management announces CIO's departure

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
Platypus Asset Management's co-founder and chief investment officer has announced he will step away from his investment and management responsibilities due to health reasons. Donald Williams will remain with the Platypus business, acting in a business ...

Risks are overstated: AUI

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 5 FEB 2016
... While volatility will continue to be the new normal, we expect a market floor to be reached shortly." Platypus Asset Management chief investment officer Don Williams said a similar story is playing out domestically. "The performance of the industrials ...

Investors to get less in coming years

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 31 JUL 2015
... senior fund managers from property and global equities house, Wingate, and Australian equities boutique, Platypus Asset Management, gave a downcast view of the economic and investment environment. "This is the first time in a long time that Australia ...

Women on boards have no influence in performance

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAR 2014
... by University of New South Wales professor RenA(C)e Adams has found. Adams, who was speaking at the Platypus Asset Management Symposium in Sydney, looked at the short term effect in market performance of all ASX200 director appointments from 2009 to ...

Fewer IPO's no excuse for poor returns: Hyperion

BEN COLLINS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 NOV 2012
... money," off IPO's, recalled Donald Williams, founder & executive director, chief investment officer, Platypus Asset Management. Even during the dark days of the crisis, there were opportunities, he said. "In hindsight, the managers who jumped on every ...

Bank dividends under threat

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 30 OCT 2012
... on the telecoms industry and mining, rent and resources tax on the commodities sector in Australia." Platypus Asset Management founder Don Williams said that he had increased his exposure to Aussie banks because he is struggling to find a better home ...

Trinity3 names SMA portfolio managers

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... Shares offering. The five included four boutique-style fund managers namely Bennelong Funds Management, Platypus Asset Management and Ralton Asset Management, and major investment house UBS Global Asset Management. "We looked at about a dozen different ...

Platypus wins court case

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
A Victorian Supreme Court Justice ruled in favour of Platypus Asset Management yesterday, in its dispute with a former employee. Philip Pepe was employed as a senior analyst at Platypus from April 2006 to October 2007. In August 2008 he filed a claim ...

Bennelong wins AMP mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 6 OCT 2009
... Fund's portfolio. Bennelong joins AMP Capital Investors, BlackRock, Ausbil Dexia, JF Capital Partners, Platypus Asset Management and Tyndall Asset Management in the manager line-up. Sean Henaghan, AMP Capital Investors' investment director, International ...

AUI signs Asian equities jv

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... following Acorn Capital (Australian equities microcaps), Vianova Asset Management (fixed interest), Platypus Asset Management (Australian equities) and Wingate Asset Management (international equities).