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Asset Super completes intl mandates review

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
Asset Super has made sweeping changes to its international equities and bonds mandates, dropping seven out of eight international equities fund managers and appointing nine new mandates across both asset classes. Asset Super has discontinued mandates ...

Platinum holds steady in upswing

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
Platinum International fund, the largest global equities fund in Australia with more than $7.6 billion in FUM, ranks as one of the top three performers in global equities in the year to April, but Platinum chief investment officer Kerr Neilson, still ...

Pinnacle to distribute Capital International

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 3 APR 2009
Pinnacle Investment Management, the same firm that helped new boutique Solaris gather around $1 billion in mandates in one of the toughest periods for getting mandates, lands a deal to distribute US-based Capital International funds locally. The group ...

QIC property execs depart

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 6 FEB 2009
Laurie Brindle, head of global real estate and Steven Leigh, deputy head of global real estate at QIC have resigned from the $70 billion fund manager to take up positions at Trinity Property Group. While interim arrangements will be announced shortly ...

Planners turn to cash and TD funds

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 12 JAN 2009
... George, UBS and Adelaide Bank led the list of Aviva's top 10 funds for net inflows during 2008 while Platinum International Fund and Perpetual Wholesale Industrial Fund suffered the highest level of redemptions over the same period. The data was collected ...

Managers hit back on shorting ban

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 SEP 2008
... long equity products and the use of shorts is used to provide protection and to mitigate loss. The Platinum International Fund currently holds a short position of 24.7 per cent, principally made up of growth-sensitive stocks and indices. Of the total ...

Perennial's global alpha secret

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... cent, a mere fifth of the MSCI World ex-Australia which lost a higher 6.87 per cent. Competing fund Platinum International fund, for example, lost 5 per cent over the same period. But the outperformance doesn't come without a cost. Like many global fund ...

RBC Dexia scores two

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 AUG 2008
RBC Dexia Investor Services has scored two mandates with international fund managers Investec Asset Management and Vontobel Asset Management. US-based Vontobel Asset Management has engaged RBC Dexia to provide custody, fund administration, shareholder ...

FTI Aus unveils global equity fund

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
... Investments Australia has launched the Franklin Global Equity ex-Australia strategy to institutional investors. The international fund manager said its Global Equity Strategy, managed by Franklin Global Advisers, provides employs a concentrated, growth-oriented ...

AUI and Wingate form JV

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2008
Australian Unity Investments (AUI) and Melbourne-based private investment and advisory firm Wingate Group are embarking on a joint venture to form a boutique international equities fund manager. Subject to unit holder approval, the joint venture will ...