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S&P places AMP responsible funds 'on hold'

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 24 MAY 2010
... Leaders (RIL) fund 'on hold' due to concerns with high staff turnover. This means the RIL Australian fund, RIL International fund, and RIL Balanced fund have been placed 'on hold'. The AMP RIL Balanced and AMP RIL International were previously rated ...

Global investors push for corruption info

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
A coalition of international fund managers, pension funds and super funds representing more than $1.7 trillion have written to 21 major companies urging them to improve their disclosure of bribery and corruption risks. The investors asked companies ...

Lonsec names top global equities funds

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 12 APR 2010
T.Rowe Price Global Equity fund, Templeton Global Equities fund and Goldman Sachs JBWere International fund are among seven funds that received a 'highly recommended' rating from Lonsec's global equity review. Lonsec's 2009-10 Large Cap Global Equity ...

UK pensions call for greater FM engagement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
... shareholders far more seriously. Lindsay Tomlinson, chair at the National Association of Pension Funds, said local and international fund managers should publicise how they monitor companies they invest in to improve corporate governance in listed firms. ...

Health Super reviews intl equities

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 12 MAR 2010
... focusing on high conviction strategies. Chris Clausen, chief executive at Health Super, said the fund reviewed its international fund manager portfolio in May and made changes in the December quarter last year. He said the super fund changed four of ...

In Kerr Neilson we trust

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 FEB 2010
... survey of 648 financial planners found 56 per cent of planners listed Platinum in their top three preferred international fund managers in 2008. This figure rose to 65 per cent in 2009. The second most popular international equities fund manager in 2009 ...

RARE wins $200m mandate from CFS

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 28 JAN 2010
... relationship with [CFS]." RARE has been in talks with CFS since April 2008, said Dell. While many local and international fund managers floundered during the GFC, RARE managed to nearly double its funds under management from $834 million at the end of ...

Fund managers pick what's hot in 2010

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... cyclical growth story, which will continue into 2011," said Lucas. These predictions come after a HSBC quarterly international fund manager survey found more than half of respondents viewed high yield bonds and global emerging market equities favourably ...

Asset completes investment review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
The $1.1 billion Asset Super has recently completed the last stage of its investment restructuring process, including changes to the fund's cash, international and Australian equities, alternative and international fixed interest mandates. Recently ...

Day of silence

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
Big yawn! That's what Wall Street and European markets did overnight. Flat, flat, flat. Perhaps they took a one-day of silence to show respect for US Senator Edward Kennedy. Senator Ted passed away yesterday, aged 77. Or maybe they're just taking a ...