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Skandia gives multi-managers mandates

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 16 OCT 2007
... asset allocation updates made earlier this year to the company's diversified multi-manager funds, which place a greater focus on alternative investments and other asset classes with a low correlation with traditional assets. Skandia also recently implemented ...

Comm Hotel property fund bags sustainability award

A Queensland hotel owned by the Commonwealth Property Hotel Fund has won an international award for its sustainability initiatives. The Surfers Paradise Marriott Resort and Spa has been awarded a sustainability award at the Hotel Investment Conference ...

Market wrap - morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 15 OCT 2007
The Australian dollar opened at its strongest level since 1984 today to start the week well above 90 US cents as an optimistic outlook for the global economy fuelled demand for high interest rate currencies. The Australian dollar then reached a new ...

INGIM appoints deputy chief

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 OCT 2007
... Asset Management. David McClatchy, chief executive at ING IM, said, "This addition will allow the business to have greater focus across its sales, client servicing, product and marketing efforts which are critical to ING IM's strategic objectives moving ...

Gunns fuels CG debate

... assessment of the project. ANZ has declined an interview request but said in a statement that as a potential financier, their focus is on ensuring that any significant social and environmental issues posed by the mill have been identified and that those ...

Babcock & Brown launches DIF III

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
... 20 per cent net of fees and tax. All assets are sourced through Babcock & Brown's global pipeline of investments with a focus on Australia, New Zealand, US, Canada and Western Europe. The fund's second close is expected later this year with the third ...

Intech shifts focus to after-tax

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
... fund managers who invest in their own funds or manage relatively low fund volumes, and those managers with a sole equity focus," said chief investment officer, Ron Liling. "The new structure of the Intech Australian Shares Active Trust recognises this ...

Singapore's wealthy to defy global downturn

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
Singapore's fund managers could be in for a battle for new money as the country's focus on exports, international trade and tourism will help it ride out a predicted global economic downturn from 2008-09 and increase the number of wealthy individuals ...

Consumers worry about value, not fees

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 9 OCT 2007
... push for advisers and super funds having to better articulate their value proposition is expected to reinforce a tougher focus on administrative efficiencies in the wealth management industry, said John DiBase, senior consultant at Morse Consulting. ...

Microcap a winning formula at Cygnet

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 8 OCT 2007
A fund manager who returned 73 per cent p.a. after fees for his clients last year is to manage a new fund that focuses on microcap stocks. Jonathan Rosham, co-founder of microcap specialist Cygnet Capital, will run Cygnet Microcap opportunity fund using ...