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SELECT appoints the good doctor

FINANCIAL STANDARD  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 NOV 2005
Select Asset Management Limited (SELECT) has appointed a global macro specialist to help improve their multi-manager alternative portfolio. Dr Bart Dowling, author and current managing director of Evolutionary Finance (Australia) Ltd, will join SELECT's ...

Platypus leads pack with 44.4 per cent return

... stocks we held started to look expensive," he says. While the group's investment strategy looks to be supported by intensive macro and micro market research and valuation, the thought process that went into their name 'Platypus' was not quite the same. ...

van Eyk gives Suncorp the blueprint

... highly disciplined bottom-up approach He says a research driven, 'bottom up' stock selection process rather than a 'top down' macro approach has consistently proven to be the most effective way to achieve excess returns over time. Suncorp recently received ...

Lonsec prefers HFA's hedge fund of fund strategy

... desired. Lonsec believes this process is robust and logical and in many respects the process has already been tested given the macro events such as the Asian crisis and 2000 - 2003 equity bear market. Through these conditions the fund has still managed ...

QIC targets a new global active strategy

The $39 billion Queensland Investment Corporation (QIC) has established a Global Macro Program aimed to generate active investment returns using a multi-strategy, multi-manager approach. The program has been developed for QIC's QSuper and Queensland ...

Invesco to utilise Macrow on Australian equity team

Investment manager Invesco has appointed Mike Macrow as its Australian equity team senior equity analyst. Macrow has many years of experience in the investment market and is highly regarded in the industry having been rated one of the top five bank ...

Standard & Poor's likes ABN Amro's dedication to global property

Standard & Poor's has affirmed its 'competent' Assirt rating on ABN Amro's global property sector capabilities assigning a three star rating to its global property securities fund. Standard & Poor's fund analyst Anatoli Chvand says the sector rating ...

Australian fund managers favour global equities

A Russell Investment Group survey of Australian-based fund managers has revealed international equities to be their pick as the best performing asset class over the next year. Called the Russell Australian Investment Manager Outlook, the study surveyed ...

HSBC Australian property securities funds affirmed

Standard & Poor's has affirmed its 'strong' Assirt property securities sector ratings on HSBC Asset Management (HSBCAM) including the HSBC Australian Property Securities Trust and HSBC Property Securities Wholesale Fund, however HSBCAM's direct property ...

Japanese alternative investment firm expands into Australia

... various single manager hedge fund strategies including emerging markets, fixed income, relative value, even driven, global macro, long-short and capital structure arbitrage