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MMC Contrarian sells asset management arm

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 20 JUL 2009
... Value Growth Trust. Valuestream Investment Management is a specialist outsourced RE provider that services boutique fund managers and large institutions. The capital reduction will in the return of around $6 million of capital to MMC Contrarian through ...

Oasis looks to SMAs and ETFs

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JUL 2009
... for better direct shares services. "[Advisers] are very much exploring the use of going direct as opposed to just fund managers. "Clearly a lot of independent financial advisers are starting to place their attention there and that also leads directly ...

US fundie expands into Japanese pensions

PRESS RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 13 JUL 2009
... diverse needs of Japanese investors, both through our line-up of in-house managed funds and by selecting third party fund managers through our sub-advised fund business," said Timothy McCarthy, chair and chief executive at Nikko Asset Management. Robert ...

TechInvest tops fastest growing fundie table

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
Sydney-based investment manager TechInvest is one of the fastest growing fund managers - gaining $78 million in flows to tip over the $100 million funds under management (FUM) mark over the past year. The latest Rainmaker Information Roundup report ...

Pengana Asian Equities up 20pc

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... fees, in the year to June against its benchmark's loss of 6.1 per cent - proof that even in the worst of times, fund managers that make the smart calls can deliver. Not many fund managers back major "contrarian" calls and live to tell the tale. But Diane ...

UK pensions demand more face time with fundies

PRESS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 7 JUL 2009
... A survey of UK workplace pension funds representing $400 billion in assets found pension funds are putting more fund managers on a "regular performance review". The National Association of Pension Funds (NAPF), which 1,200 pension funds and $1.6 trillion ...

Focus on quality: T. Rowe Price

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... especially consumer staples and health care, to whatever sectors were down the most," he said. The pace in which some fund managers are exploiting the market recovery may work well for them but Gensler, whose identical twin brother Gary Gensler was handpicked ...

Amnesty highlights Shell governance shortfall

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 6 JUL 2009
... rights group for not disclosing key information around its operations in the Niger Delta - potentially exposing fund managers to unknown corporate governance issues. The Amnesty International letter to Shell highlighted the oil firm's business principle ...

Hedge funds on a refund policy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 3 JUL 2009
... ability to claw back fees in when managers post poor returns and payment of fees spread out over seven years. "Hedge fund managers are expected to exhibit the same sound approach to business management they expect from the companies in which they invest," ...

Malaysia opens doors to foreign fundies

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 JUL 2009
Australian fund managers looking to expand in Asia could soon put Malaysia on their watchlist, following Prime Minister Najib Razak's announcement yesterday allowing foreign fund managers to be "fully liberalised" in the country. Razak, in his most ...