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Ascalon appoints head of distribution

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
Ascalon Capital Managers has appointed BT Financial Group executive Jason Collins to the newly created role of head of distribution. Collins starts with Ascalon in February next year, and joins the team from related company BT Financial Group, where ...

Ascalon adds hedge fund boutique

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 SEP 2009
Ascalon Capital Managers has established a hedge fund boutique with three former Macquarie Funds Group executives. Helix Partners specialises in global equities using a quantitative process that is developed by former Macquarie Funds Group quantitative ...

Westpac moves to wholly own Ascalon

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 10 SEP 2009
Westpac Group has bought Kaplan Equity's 50 per cent stake in Ascalon Capital Managers to wholly own the boutique incubator. Westpac Group said it had reached an in-principle agreement with Kaplan Equity in a transaction that is expected to be completed ...

Basile joins nabInvest

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 10 FEB 2009
Direct asset management firm, nabInvest has hired former Ascalon Capital Managers chief executive Nick Basile as investment director. Basile has more than 20 years investment management experience, previously working as general manager of investments ...

Ascalon buys 50pc stake in Sigrun

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
Ascalon Capital Managers continues its strategy to buy strong financial services firms, after purchasing a 50 per cent equity stake in high conviction investment manager, Sigrun Asset Management. Sigrun is a quant manager that uses behavioural finance ...

Pentafin recruits ex-Macq head

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... separately managed account (SMA) specialist Direct Portfolio, whose majority shareholder is St George owned Ascalon Capital Managers. According to Connie McKeage, chief executive of Pentain, Karrasch approached Pentafin after he heard about the company's ...

Pentafin and DP step up MA technology

... Connie McKeage as the head of the merged business. Nick Basile, chief executive of boutique incubator Ascalon Capital Managers, which acquired a majority stake in Direct Portfolio last October, said the merger is the next logical step to develop DP's ...

Ascalon buys stake in TPC

Ascalon Capital Managers Limited has bought a majority stake in The Private Collection (TPC), a distribution business that promotes boutique, international and alternative fund management products to financial planners. "TPC is well positioned to support ...

Ascalon treads global commodity path

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... listed property and hedge funds falter in the wake of the US sub-prime disaster, fund managers such as Ascalon Capital Managers are steering their attention to the global commodity sector to maximise investor returns. The St.George and Kaplan Equity ...

Quant experts enter new continuum

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... boutique - Continuum Capital Management. The new boutique will come under the wing of boutique incubator Ascalon Capital managers. Ascalon chief executive Nick Basile and senior manager of investments Nelson Lam will sit on the Continuum board. The company ...