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Mining exports finally give way to financial services

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 12 MAY 2015
... businesses in Australia could not open their own businesses in these countries. Now they are proposing that banks, fund managers and insurers can partner with local businesses in China, Japan or Korea and even merge or take over local companies down ...

Don't overlook culture and discipline: MFS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... corporate culture and the discipline to soft-close funds before they are hurt by their size are too often overlooked by fund managers, according to MFS Investment management global equity chief investment officer Kevin Beatty. The Boston-based firm ...

Aviva launches first in range of new funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 5 MAY 2015
... with assets allocated between investment strategies depending on how much each strategy contributes to fund risk. Fund managers can invest as much or little as they want across asset classes and geographies. Aviva Investors chief executive, Euan Munro ...

Legalsuper finds savings in manager reshuffle

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 4 MAY 2015
Industry super fund legalsuper has replaced a number of high profile fund managers in its investment manager line-up. Perennial (cash and enhanced cash), Colonial First State (global credit), Integrity (Australian equities), Platinum (overseas equities) ...

Future Fund ranks worst in managing climate risk

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2015
... performers. The fund had the widest range of climate change-related risk mitigation, including providing guidance to its fund managers, putting a climate risk overlay on their core portfolio, underweighting carbon-intensive stocks and sectors, as well ...

Hedge funds bare all to seduce instos

LAURA MILLAN  |  TUESDAY, 21 APR 2015
... correlation to traditional asset classes." In two years, Ironbark has gone from 23 to 16 in the ranking of largest hedge fund managers in Australia. It achieved FUM growth of 161%, the largest growth of all managers surveyed by Rainmaker, and it currently ...

Pinnacle appoints distribution director

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 16 APR 2015
... institutional, retail, platforms and advice. He will become an equity partner of the company and will assist Pinnacle's fund managers, including Resolution Capital, Palisade Investment Partners and the recently launched Antipodes Partners, to engage ...

FEATURE: How boutiques got their groove back

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
... 10th and 193rd on the list respectively with an estimated combined net worth of more than $3.5 billion. Boutique fund managers Peter Cooper and David Paradice and Investors Mutual founder Anton Tagliaferro also feature. But with so many success stories ...

Sovereign wealth funds growing despite falling commodity prices

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... public equity and fixed income markets, sovereign wealth funds are a growing source of capital to alternative asset fund managers and investments across the globe." The research also notes the considerable role these funds have in development of infrastructure ...

Go south young (China) man

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 10 APR 2015
... main catalyst for the buying, though, was a decision by regulators in Beijing last month to allow Chinese mutual-fund managers to buy directly through Stock Connect, rather than make use of an existing quota system, said Stephen Ma, senior portfolio ...