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Integrity Australian Share rated 'recommended'

Integrity Investment Management's newly launched fund, Integrity Australian Share, receives a recommended rating from Lonsec. In a report, Lonsec said it considers Integrity's investment team consisting of Paul Fiani, Shawn Burns, John Moran, and Marcus ...

Fund managers must raise benchmarks

The role of the active manager is not just to provide investors with above-benchmark returns but to keep raising those benchmarks, said Paul Fiani, head of Australian equities boutique fund Integrity. Passive managers have grown in popularity as one ...

Integrity opens to retail

Integrity, a boutique fund set up by former UBS Australian equities head Paul Fiani, hits the ground running with $400 million in institutional money already invested and a new retail fund launched last week. The Integrity Australian Share fund, loosely ...

Advisers urged to exit UBS Aussie fund

Ratings firm Standard & Poor's Fund Services has downgraded the UBS Australian Share Fund from four to two stars and recommended that advisers find an alternative manager for their "core" Australian-equities investment. While UBS is not the only fund ...

Week of resignations for UBS

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
Rounding out a week of personnel-propelled headlines for UBS Global Asset Management, another executive has tendered his resignation. Hot on the heels of head of Australian equities, Paul Fiani's departure, deputy portfolio manager, Shawn Burns, has ...

Westpoint Recovery Fund still in pursuit

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2006
Ian Bristow, trustee of the Westpoint Recovery Fund and managing director of Money Matters Financial Solutions, said he intends to maintain the legal pursuit of Westpoint directors, KPMG and eventually the regulator. Bristow issued a terse statement ...

Financial Wisdom trumpets its Platinum Advantage

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 NOV 2006
Financial Wisdom's Platinum Advantage program has so far been a resounding success with affiliated planners and their clients. The Platinum Advantage program offers Financial Wisdom advisers and their clients access to special retail discounts and offers ...

Currency managers pray for Cruise antics

The latest State Street Global Research weekly report noted that the market lull in currencies is making foreign exchange (FX) traders wish that the markets would 'jump the couch', or exhibit strange, volatile behaviour a la Tom Cruise. "A lack of volatility ...

UBS sets sights on global infrastructure

UBS Australia will be using the worldwide reach of its Swiss parent to offer Australian investors a slice of the global infrastructure market. UBS Global Asset Management has this week launched the UBS Global Infrastructure Securities Fund. The fund's ...

Urban Pacific wins prestigious global real estate award

Melbourne-based Urban Pacific's residential development Kensington Banks has won the prestigious international real estate award, the FIABCI Prix d'Excellence, this year. Completed in 2004, Kensington Banks is a 38 hectare redevelopment and 11 year ...