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Islamic fund opens doors to Australian investors

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... its Australian equities fund, the first of a series of products it plans to bring to market. The Crescent Australian Equity fund begins life today with $5.5 million of seed capital from Aon Hewitt and will target the retail market and SMSFs in particular. ...

Manager tenure impacts success: S&P

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 19 SEP 2011
In a study of long-only Australian equity funds, Standard & Poor's found the duration a portfolio manager remains with a fund manager is influential on the success of the fund itself, with consistent returns being a main benefit. In its report 'Portfolio ...

SMAs drive interest into concentrated Australian equity funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
Separately managed account growth is driving interest in the concentrated Australian equity fund sector, research house Lonsec has said. Lin Ngin, senior investment analyst for Lonsec, said there had been an increase in concentrated strategies, with ...

Short-termism crippling wealth management

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 AUG 2011
... hindering financial performance and resulting in significant losses to equity holders, according to boutique Australian Equity fund manager, Hyperion. Short-termism, as discussed in Hyperion's paper, authored by chief executive Mark Arnold and portfolio ...

Treasury Group "transformational" year

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 25 AUG 2011
Treasury Group is preparing to expand into the UK and Europe with mature acquisitions on the cards as it releases its full year results, including a 13.9% rise in FUM. The company posted mix results yesterday. Its consolidated profit after tax of $10 ...

Fund managers beat the index but only just

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... fund returning 3.0% compared with 1.9% for the S&P/ASX 300 Index. In the long-only category, concentrated Australian equity fund SGH20, run by boutique firm SG Hiscock & Company, topped both the three-month and the five-year performance tables. In the ...

Lonsec casts eye over fund fee structures

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUL 2011
... particular: ING Extended Alpha Australian Share Fund, Perpetual SHARE-PLUS Long Short Fund and Regal Long Short Australian Equity Fund. "We like a manager that has a competitive MER and we like a manager that doesn't charge too much for a performance ...

ORBIS launches cash based fund

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
... Opportunity Fund. The new Fund is the second one Orbis has launched in Australia since the launch of the Orbis/SM Australian Equity Fund in 2004. The Orbis/SM Australia Opportunity Fund is an alternative to traditional cash or money market and income ...

van Eyk drops AXA Bernstein for Sigma

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 16 MAY 2011
... allocation. The mandate follows Sigma's appointment as the investment manager of the Crescent Shariah Compliant Australian Equity Fund.

Asgard adds funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... still strong for index funds and ETFs. Seven new funds were added last week. They were: Regal Long Short Australian Equity Fund, AQR Wholesale DELTA Fund - Class 1F, Hyperion Small Growth Companies, Hyperion Australian Growth Companies Fund, Resolution ...