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NAB buys stake in Pengana

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 MAY 2008
National Australia Bank's (NAB) direct investment management business, nabInvest, has purchased roughly one third of funds management firm Pengana Capital. This minority stake represents nabInvest's second investment. The first, which they signed last ...

VFMC boosts inhouse investments by 25pc

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 21 JAN 2008
Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC) chief investment officer, Leo de Bever, delivers on the strategy he outlined a year ago after the fund's allocation to external fund managers falls from 100 per cent before he joined to almost 75 per cent ...

Fidelity turns on hazard lights for 2008

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 11 DEC 2007
Global equity markets will be more volatile next year highlighting the need for institutional investors to analyse their stock choices more stringently, according to Fidelity. "The economic backdrop is less than rosy. Inflation while not appearing a ...

Land of the rising small caps

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 15 NOV 2007
Morgan Stanley's global small cap portfolio is steering away from Australia's resource sector and refocusing on Japan's value stocks, according to managing director and co-head of international and global small cap value strategies, Margaret Naylor. ...

Epoch boutique heads Down Under

A top performing US-based international boutique is coming to Australia in two weeks as part of an exclusive distribution deal with Grant Samuel Funds Management, a new multi-affiliated fund manager headed by ex-Credit Suisse Asset Management head Andrew ...

BlackRock inches closer to global SMA

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
BlackRock Investment Management is currently testing its long-awaited move into international shares. Head of customised portfolios services, Cormac Heffernan, said "We have always stated that international shares will be our next step in product development ...

Small caps equals big performance for Pengana

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUN 2007
Pengana Capital's Global Small Companies Solution has recorded an 18.2 per cent annualised return and beaten its own equally weighted benchmark by 9.1 per cent over the last two years. Chief investment officer, Nick Griffiths, said the performance of ...

OptiMix appoints Schroders to global small caps portfolio

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
Schroders Investment Management has been appointed as a manager in OptiMix Investment Management's Global Small Companies Portfolio, replacing Wellington Management. As part of a regular OptiMix review process, Schroders was brought into the portfolio ...

Small cap suffers a shake up

Standard & Poor's Fund Services has placed an 'On Hold' rating on BlackRock's global small cap funds and downgraded the Australian small companies funds from Credit Suisse Asset Management Australia (CSAMA) after the departures of their small cap portfolio ...

Another Dimension to DFA

Flush from the success of its current suite of products, leading fund manager Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) has today launched a new fund that follows the same winning formula but with a global tilt. DFA senior portfolio manager Andrew Cain said that ...