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QIC creates new role of MD Insto Business

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 3 FEB 2011
Former Perennial Investment Partners business development executive Cliff Smith has joined fund manager QIC as managing director of institutional business. In the newly created role, Smith will be responsible for developing relationships with major ...

Aust Unity boutiques cautious on year ahead

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 JAN 2011
Despite seeing a relatively positive year ahead, chief investment officers of two Australian Unity Investments boutiques remain cautions, believing that managing risk is the key for equity investors in 2011. Don Williams, chief investment officer at ...

Plato poaches GMO quant

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... recruited another former member of his active equities team at State Street Global Advisors, with Mark Thompson joining the boutique fund as a senior portfolio manager. Thompson joins Plato from GMO, where he led research into equity valuation models ...

Trinity3 names SMA portfolio managers

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... announced which investment managers were handpicked to underpin Trinity3's Australian Shares offering. The five included four boutique-style fund managers namely Bennelong Funds Management, Platypus Asset Management and Ralton Asset Management, and major ...

Bennelong appoints senior analyst

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... allowing us to spread the responsibility for stock coverage across the team," said Paul Cuddy, BAEP chief executive. BAEP, a boutique fund manager, was established in July 2008 as a joint venture between Bennelong Funds Management (BFM) and BAEP principals ...

Movers and shakers of 2010

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 17 DEC 2010
... highlight. The shock departure of the investment team at 452 Capital in August reminded investors just how sensitive boutique funds can be to 'key man risk', while QSuper's decision to shift $10 billion into State Street ratcheted the active versus passive ...

Fees for alternatives under pressure

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 16 DEC 2010
... arena," said Divyesh Hindocha, global director of consulting, Mercer. The research also found that, unique to Australia, boutique funds have higher average fees than other managers, with local boutiques protective of a capacity and not afraid to hike ...

AvSuper appoints Russell for admin

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 13 DEC 2010
... administrator securing the mandate. "The offer was very proactive and constructive, and showed a clear appreciation of the boutique nature of a fund like AvSuper and an understanding of the personalised approach we take to our members," she said. Russell ...

China inflation fears overplayed

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 10 DEC 2010
... Asia. But Kerry Series, former head of Asia-pacific equities at AMP, and now chief investment officer of Asia-focused boutique Eight Investment Partners, remains sanguine on the prospects for Asian equities. Series believes that the key driver of inflation ...

Adviser Toolbox free for planners

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
New planning website, Adviser Toolbox, taps imminent regulatory reforms to appeal to planners. The group, owned by boutique financial planning business Iplanner, was created by advisers, paraplanners and software technicians as an efficient online financial ...