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Funds SA splurges $1.4b on mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 15 JAN 2008
Funds SA has awarded $1.4 billion in mandates to a trio of leading fund managers in a move to strengthen the fund's quantitative portfolio. The South Australian-based funds manager recently appointed Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management (GSJBW) with ...

Good times keep rolling for ASX funds

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 16 JUL 2007
... Hiscock, which holds only 20 stocks and has a growth bias, achieved a 47.15 percent return. "Lazard's Select Australian Equity fund, which adopts a value-style, took second place with a 34.09 percent. [But] Dimensional Australian Value Trust, a quantitative ...

Advisers urged to exit UBS Aussie fund

... demonstrated that it is not capable of retaining key people, and this puts at risk the ongoing ability of the Australian equity fund to deliver upon its objectives," said Marcus Hanel, S&P fund analyst. Admittedly UBS promptly recruited Simon Shields ...

Watson Wyatt loses senior consultant to Hyperion

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
... familiar, as Spence previously conducted research into the company as part of his role at Watson Wyatt rating Australian equity fund managers. Having worked in professional money management for over 20 years, both in Australia and the UK, Spence will ...

Zenith recommends Macq's Fusion Funds

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 15 MAY 2007
Macquarie's capital protected Fusion Funds have been awarded a 'recommended' rating by Zenith Investment Partners. Director David Smythe said, "A Fusion fund alternative provides investors further peace of mind on retention of their capital and overall ...

Contango targets financial services

WWW.THESHEET.COM  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
The boutique Australian equity fund manager Contango Asset Management is branching out with the release yesterday of a prospectus for a listed investment company that has a mandate to invest purely in the financial services industry. The prospectus ...

Contrarian managers make a comeback

KATE HAGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 OCT 2006
... been riding the momentum of the energy boom," he said. This quarter's top performing funds were Lazard's Australian Equity Fund, the Select Australian Equity Fund and Maple-Brown Abbott's Australian Equity Trust. "Lazard have been public in saying they ...

Shrinking portfolios add risk

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 16 OCT 2006
The biggest trend in the Australian equities sector over recent years has been the concentration of portfolios, according to ratings and research houses, who say investors should be mindful of changes in the risk-return relationship. According to InvestorWeb's ...

Basis Capital takes top hedge funds honour

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 22 SEP 2006
... K2 Select International Absolute Return Fund - Best Long Short & Absolute Return Fund Award - Hayberry Australian Equity Fund - Best Market Neutral Fund Award - Fortitude Capital - Best Global Macro / Futures Fund Award - Merrill Lynch Asset Allocation ...

Mellon scores $250m Sunsuper mandate

... performing super fund has announced a string of mandates in the last few months including the addition of Australian equity fund managers ABN AMRO, MIR, Qwest and IAG in June. Last week, it also awarded a $70 million global property mandate to Perennial. ...