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Pengana gains 'three stars' rating

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
Standard & Poor's has given the Pengana Australian Equities Core fund a 'three stars' rating. The fund's strategy is active long-only that uses fundamental stock selection to construct a high conviction portfolio. The portfolio aims to generate absolute ...

AvSuper selects Hastings and Invesco

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
... generally outside of the S&P/ASX 100 index. The fund manager will oversee 10 per cent of AvSuper's overall Australian equities exposure. The super fund also uses the Australian equities expertise of Fortis Investments, Maple-Brown Abbott and Perennial ...

Challenger names Aus equities boutique

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 JUL 2010
Challenger Financial Services has hired the former AllianceBernstein Australian equities team to create Alphinity Investment Management and run three of its funds. Australian equities boutique, Alphinity Investment Management, forms part of Challenger's ...

SG survives mining tax deal

ALEX DUNNIN, MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 2 JUL 2010
... Paul Xiradis, chief executive and head of equities at Ausbil Dexia, which manages more than $11 billion in Australian equities alone according to Rainmaker, said the fund manager remained overweight to the resources sector despite the proposed RSPT. ...

State Street win $10 billion in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... billion in passive equity mandates from QSuper. SSgA announced yesterday the funds will be invested in an Australian Equities Index mandate, an International Equities Index mandate and a Global REIT Index mandate. The $10 billion represents more than ...

EOFYS

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... given the ugly lead from Wall Street and European bourses while we were sleeping. SPI futures trading says Australian equities are looking for a fall of more than 2 per cent today as market participants go on an EOFYS - end of financial year sale. Financial ...

Tyndall launches share income fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 29 JUN 2010
... make sure those dividends are based on income," he said. He said wholesale investors are positioning their Australian equities portfolio to produce high dividend yields. "The fact the fund has already been seeded by external clients illustrates the demand ...

Aussie quant funds stay ahead with proprietary data

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JUN 2010
Australian equities quantitative fund managers may become far more secretive about their investment strategies as they strive to find different stock market signals to outperform their peers, according to one ratings firm. Justine Gorman, analyst at ...

Contango Microcap appoints distribution head

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
... was incorporated in December 1998 by a group of Melbourne-based investment professionals. It specialises in Australian Equities portfolios and manages approximately $2 billion in funds. Meanwhile, Contango MicroCap Ltd (CTN) was listed in six years ago ...

AMP adds DNR portfolio

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUN 2010
Dalton Nicol Reid's Australian Equities High Conviction portfolio has been added to the model portfolios on AMP's Personalised Portfolio Service. Dalton Nicol Reid's High Conviction portfolio, which is style neutral and holds between 15 and 25 Australian-listed ...