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Scale a key issue in multi-management

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
... won't be a 'category killer' due to scale issues. Matt Mckinnon, general manager - retail sales Australian equities at Perpetual, acknowledged the multi-manager model is a popular strategy among planners servicing clients with a smaller investment portfolio. ...

Staff departures prompt rating changes

S&P REPORT  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 AUG 2010
... BlackRock was the most affected fund manager this calendar year with four departures while AMP, Amundi, Challenger and Perpetual all lost two staff each. Notable executives include Andrew Jackson and Davis Walsh, both head of portfolio management at ...

Van Eyk strengthens investment team

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... strategy team in May. Meanwhile, Nigel Douglas, former head of research at van Eyk, left his post to take up a role at Perpetual in March. His resignation followed former managing director and head of research, Stephen van Eyk, announcing his departure ...

Former MLC chief takes Perpetual chair

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 23 JUL 2010
Perpetual has appointed former MLC chief executive Peter Scott as chairman, as Robert Savage, the firm's current chair, confirmed his upcoming retirement. Savage joined the board of Perpetual in 2001 and became chairman in 2005. He confirmed his forthcoming ...

S&P retains Perpetual fund ratings

S&P RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 24 JUN 2010
Standard & Poor's has kept its ratings on all Perpetual funds following the resignation of managing director, David Deverall. According to a statement, S&P is comfortable with the ratings because Deverall has no direct involvement in investment management ...

Perpetual MD Deverall resigns

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 JUN 2010
David Deverall, managing director at Perpetual, has resigned from the firm after seven years at the helm but will remain in his role until either a replacement is found or until March next year. "This has been a personal decision... I believe it is ...

Perpetual taps global resources

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 JUN 2010
Perpetual has launched its Global Resources Fund, a fund that provides access to overseas companies that won't be impacted by the government's proposed Resources Super Profits Tax (RSPT). The fund uses a bottom-up stock selection approach to invest ...

Class Financial warns against poor SMSF admin

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUN 2010
... SMSFs. It offers services to accounts, planning groups and specialist SMSF administrators. Late last year, it signed Perpetual and Count Financial as clients. In a statement this month, the group's chief executive Richard Barber said that some software ...

Van Eyk head of strategic research joins Future Fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... the Future Fund, in this role. His departure comes after Nigel Douglas, former head of research at van Eyk, moved to Perpetual in March this year and the firm's founder, Stephen van Eyk, resigned as executive chair in August last year. Mark Thomas was ...

... and hires three to fill research

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 10 MAY 2010
... Poor's analyst, John O'Brien, as head of research. O'Brien replaces Nigel Douglas who left the firm in March to join Perpetual. He spent nine years at Standard & Poors in New York, working as a key analyst in over 200 transactions for large financial ...