Newspaper icon
The latest issue of Financial Standard now available as an e-newspaper
READ NOW

Search Results

Showing 101 - 110 of 135 results for "Platinum Asset Management"

Tides to turn for Platinum: Neilson

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 23 MAY 2013
Platinum Asset Management's (Platinum) chief executive Kerr Neilson is confident that the fund will be able to turn around a period of underperformance in its flagship International Fund, saying that the current state of the market has turned to favour ...

Platinum board restructure, Neilson steps down as CIO

ALICE URIBE  |  THURSDAY, 9 MAY 2013
After 19 yrs as chief investment officer of Platinum Asset Management (Platinum), Kerr Neilson will step down from the role, but will remain on as chief executive officer. Lead manager and investment star Neilson founded Platinum in 1994 with four former ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2012
... Santos and QBE Insurance Group Ltd are due to post half year results, while Treasury Wine Estates and Platinum Asset Management are scheduled to announce full year results. ANZ is due to provide a trading update while Myer chief executive Bernie Brookes ...

Facebook IPO price raises queries on value

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  FRIDAY, 18 MAY 2012
... going to be valued at $100bn plus and current profitability is $1b," said Alex Barbi, fund manager for Platinum Asset Management's International Technology Fund. "Despite the pop of product, with more than 500 million people regularly visiting Facebook ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2012
... Sims Metal Management, Billabong International, Spotless Group, Treasury Wine Estates, Duet Group and Platinum Asset Management are all due to post first-half results, while ANZ releases a trading update. In Australia, the market on Thursday was dragged ...

Market Wrap

AAP  |  MONDAY, 16 JAN 2012
... $23.56 and Commonwealth Bank was down 0.8 per cent to $49.67. Among the morning's biggest losers was Platinum Asset Management, which fell to an almost three-year low as investors continued to selloff its stock after the fund last week warned its operating ...

Neilson loosens reins at Platinum

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... co-founder of Platinum, is second-in-charge of the investment team and is manager of the Platinum Asia Fund. Platinum Asset Management said the changes were a reward for strong performance and provided motivational goals. Ratings agency Morningstar lists ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... Ltd, NIB Holdings Ltd, Bluescope Steel Ltd, Flight Centre Ltd, West Australian Newspapers Holdings Ltd, Platinum Asset Management Ltd, and Challenger Financial Services Group Ltd. On Friday, the Australian share market closed flat as a disappointing ...

Platinum feels the force of term deposits

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... continues to attract positive retail net fund inflows the competition from bank term deposits is intense," Platinum Asset Management's chairman Michael Cole told investors in his AGM address on Friday. "Bank deposits offer real rates of return of around ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... the Housing Industry Association release their Performance of Construction Index. In equities news, Platinum Asset Management Ltd and Hills Industries Ltd hold annual general meetings. On Thursday, The Australian share market closed at its highest level ...