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The ever-shrinking pool of property fund managers

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 15 OCT 2010
The pool of direct property fund managers in Australia has almost halved since the GFC, research shows. Mark Wist, of Melbourne-based Atchison Consulting, said that the number of property fund managers in Australia has fallen from 1,043 back in 2008 ...

Super funds call for new fee paradigm

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... AIST research published last month recommends a hybrid fixed dollar fee/performance fee model as a way to reward fund managers for meeting investment targets but, at the same time, not getting additional fees simply because super funds are getting bigger ...

OneVue on global path with managed accounts

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 14 OCT 2010
... accounts specialist OneVue is looking to expand its business offshore following a raft of client wins from both fund managers and financial advisers in the past 12 months. OneVue Limited was formed in September 2008 after three businesses namely APA ...

AMIST Super takes driver's seat on cash and bonds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 12 OCT 2010
... newly-established internal investment team by taking a cash mandate in-house and working closer with one of its existing fund managers on a bond mandate. In August, AMIST hired Megan Pham, formerly the assistant investment officer at NGS Super, in the ...

Rise of in-house fund mgmt a game changer

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 OCT 2010
... and QIC raises questions around the latter's reason to exist, potentially creating concerns for other state owned fund managers including VFMC and Funds SA. QIC paid a dividend of $13.2 million to the Queensland government, down from $18 million in the ...

Sutton seeks global eq managers

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 SEP 2010
Australia-based fund managers looking to win global equities and bonds mandates can turn to the UK's Sutton Council, which is looking to award up to $200 million in mandates. According to a tender statement, the Sutton Council is looking to appoint ...

Premium Investors cuts cost, restructures

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 28 SEP 2010
... competitive level. "Things are coming back to normal," he said. "For example, because the fund is smaller - we pay our fund managers a basis point fee - we're paying less [to] them," he said. The group also reduced its custody and transaction costs. ...

AMP buys Sydney office for Sunsuper

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 SEP 2010
... Direct Property Investment Association (ADPIA) released in May 2009 found that nearly half of 100 direct property fund managers said that the government guarantee on bank funding has hurt their business, either through increased redemptions or decreased ...

TAAM attracts top Asia guns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
... Asia Asset Management has appointed leading contrarian investor Marc Faber and one of Singapore's most successful fund managers, Teng Ngiek-Lian, to its investment advisory board. Faber, author of "The Gloom Boom & Doom Report" and adviser to the TAAM ...

HSBC wins Ascalon mandate

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 17 SEP 2010
... under management has risen over the last twelve months to around $3.5 billion, due to its stakes in seven boutique fund managers with the most recent in July where Ascalon purchased a 30 per cent stake in Regal Funds Management. "Ascalon has grown significantly ...