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Rising oil prices add to sovereign risk

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 22 MAR 2011
... reinsurance in June. Property exposures from Astro Japan Property Trust and Challenger may also suffer along with some Platinum funds overweight in Japan equities.

Ratings houses silent on Japan fund fallout

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 MAR 2011
... basis points of difference, he said. According to Morningstar the three funds most exposed to Japanese equities are: Platinum International, with a 20.6 per cent Japan weighting at the end of February, Walter Scott Global Equity, with 21.33 per cent ...

Market Wrap - Morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 10 FEB 2011
... In equities news, first half results are due from Telstra Corporation Ltd, Transurban Group, Rio Tinto Ltd, Aquarius Platinum Ltd, Alumina Ltd, Keybridge Capital Ltd, STW Communications Ltd, SAI Global Ltd, and Foxtel. Australian Agricultural Company ...

Slim pickings in intl equities: van Eyk

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... rating, while 11 Australian-based fund managers were reviewed with just three earning a 'A' rating. They were Magellan, Platinum International and Platinum Brand. Van Eyk's senior investment analyst, Chris Bigg said that the international equities team ...

Platinum feels the force of term deposits

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... equity fund managers has lamented that its retail business is facing "intense" competition from bank term deposits. "While Platinum continues to attract positive retail net fund inflows the competition from bank term deposits is intense," Platinum Asset ...

UBS poised to enter local ETF market

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 1 OCT 2010
... UBS is among the top 10 largest ETF providers in Europe. In addition to European equities, the firm produces oil, gold, platinum and real estate funds ETFs, according to the UBS website. The global ETF industry hit the US$1 trillion mark at the end of ...

New FM for Share Plus

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 8 MAR 2010
... Vasant Khilnani, who has retired from the industry, previously managed this shorting process. Perpetual also hired former Platinum Asset Management equities analyst, Rosemary Tan, in a similar role. Tan worked at Platinum as an analyst for the fund manager's ...

In Kerr Neilson we trust

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
Financial planners are three times more likely to favour Platinum Asset Management over other international equities fund managers, new research found. An Investment Trends survey of 648 financial planners found 56 per cent of planners listed Platinum ...

Legalsuper cuts 17 fund managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JAN 2010
... managers getting the cut and five managers receiving mandates including Colonial First State Global Asset Management, Platinum Asset Management and Solaris Investment Management. The investment portfolio review follows the recent merger between the Victorian ...

Platinum holds steady in upswing

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
Platinum International fund, the largest global equities fund in Australia with more than $7.6 billion in FUM, ranks as one of the top three performers in global equities in the year to April, but Platinum chief investment officer Kerr Neilson, still ...