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Orion still well regarded despite downgrade: CEO

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 18 MAY 2010
... Management expects continued support from financial planners despite a ratings firm downgrade of their Australian equities fund in a recent peer review. Tim Ryan, chief executive and chief investment officer at Orion, said the fund manager is well regarded ...

BTIM wins in Aussie equities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 MAY 2010
Australian equities strategies have proven to be a boon for BT Investment Management, which reported $400 million in inflows into the asset class, according to the firm's latest results. The popularity of the group's domestic equities funds was among ...

K2 wins dealer group mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
K2 Asset Management has won a number of financial planning dealer group mandates for its Australian equities fund, and a $20 million institutional mandate for its international equities strategy in the past five months. Andrew Hall, head of distribution ...

AMIST backs after-tax benchmarking

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 MAR 2010
... superannuation is simply a tax-advantaged way of investing. Livanas said this process would allow its Australian equities fund managers to assess their performance against the tax aware benchmark and see how their investment decisions affect tax. But ...

Blue chips back in vogue

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 4 FEB 2010
... institutional investors. Howitt does not manage any Australian-domiciled funds or mandates. The Fidelity Australian Equities Fund, managed by Taylor, has $1.45 billion in assets and returned 43.38 per cent in the year to 31 December. This is above the ...

BNP Paribas merges with Fortis IM Aust

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 29 JAN 2010
... funds management expertise in Australian Equities and Global Real Estate. Fortis Investment Partners, the Australian equities fund manager currently 40 per cent owned by Fortis Investment Management Australia, will become one of the 26 specialist partners ...

GSJBWAM Aussie equities wins rating upgrades

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... this provides significant momentum for our business," said Gardner. Standard & Poor's also upgraded the Australian equities fund from 'two stars' to 'three stars' and Morningstar upgraded its rating on the fund from 'on hold' to 'investment grade'. The ...

Solaris wins CFS mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 17 NOV 2009
Solaris Investment Management has been awarded a mandate by Colonial First State's (CFS) FirstChoice Boutique Australian Share Fund. The mandate takes Solaris's funds under management to $3.4 billion since inception in January 2008. Denis Donohue, managing ...

HESTA pays managers after tax

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
... benchmarks and returns for each individual fund manager, and providing feedback," said Fowler. Half of HESTA's Australian equities fund manager line-up began working with the new system on 1 July, with the rest expected to phase in the new system in ...

MAP Super seeks alternatives, hires Bennelong

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... private equity and hedge fund strategies. Meanwhile MAP Super had also added Bennelong Funds Management's Australian Equities Fund into its multi manager portfolio and Australian equities fund-of-fund proposition, the MAP Australian Equity Fund. The ...