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MillhouseIAG buys Huntley

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAR 2008
... manager MillhouseIAG Ltd has snapped up boutique fund manager the Huntley Group, enabling the firm to expand its international fund management business. MillhouseIAG founder and chief executive David Millhouse said the acquisition would give the company ...

Platinum posts 29pc profit

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 21 FEB 2008
... overall investment performance of the firm's Australian-based funds remain positive, as its flagship Platinum International Fund gained 8.64 per cent and 11.09 per cent returns over three and five year respectively. To put in context, all Platinum funds ...

Gray shifts to academia

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 24 JAN 2008
The former head of strategy at Grantham Mayo van Otterloo (GMO), Jack Gray, recently announced his resignation from the company. According to Gray, the resignation stems from his desire to "look around and try to do something different." "I'm looking ...

K2 to tread lightly in 2008

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 18 JAN 2008
... policy," he said. The fund manager currently has approximately $740 million under management, and its Select International Fund was also recently included on the Asgard and Wealthtrac platforms.

Russell rejigs international funds

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 14 JAN 2008
Russell Investment Group has reorganised its international equities exposure, replacing Jacobs Levy and Altrinsic with ClariVest Asset Management and adding Harris Associates to its list of fund managers. Founded in March 2006, ClariVest's investment ...

Aussie manager wins global resources award

Local fund manager Dr. Joanne Warner has scooped an international fund manager award for her flair in global resources investing. Warner, a senior portfolio manager at Colonial First State Global Asset Management's global resources team, received the ...

Four international funds added to Zenith recommended list

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUL 2007
As part of its International Shares Sector Review, Zenith has added four funds to its recommended list from managers Schroders, Platinum and Acadian. The review named 29 recommended funds, including the four new additions of the Schroders Global Active ...

K2 keeps kicking goals

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 29 JUN 2007
... returns from its international and Asian funds, exceeding its own healthy performance targets. K2's Select International Fund achieved net returns of 33.7 per cent for the year to end of May and 84.2 per cent since its January 2005 inception while the ...

Fund manager transparency getting worse

... that the job is too taxing for one person only for the original CIO to leave after six months. "This was an international fund manager and I certainly put it to them that they're finished in Australia. There are consequences and management does lose ...

K2 targets retail investors

... the same state. K2's Australian Absolute Return Fund has five star rating from Standard & Poor's. Its Select International Fund gained 33 per cent in the year to 31 December 2006 and returned 64 per cent since inception on 1 January 2005. Michelle Ba ...