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Falkiner poised for retail growth

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 26 NOV 2007
After three years of establishing its business, boutique funds specialist Falkiner Global Investors, partners with Colonial First State global asset management chief executive Warwick Negus and flags a renewed focus on global equities. Negus becomes ...

Aust Unity selects DSTi

... for managed discretionary accounts and self managed accounts, a service AUI believes will be increasingly important for boutique fund managers over time. "This will help us to continue to manage risk via enhanced controls in a way that allows our portfolio ...

A case for active managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 19 NOV 2007
... managers with a long-term value bias were finding it hard to generate consistent positive excess returns. "Many of the new boutique fund managers have entered the market within the last five years have a decidedly momentum and growth bias to take advantage ...

Fund managers must raise benchmarks

... investors with above-benchmark returns but to keep raising those benchmarks, said Paul Fiani, head of Australian equities boutique fund Integrity. Passive managers have grown in popularity as one survey after another show that after taking out the fees ...

Magellan Global is best-of-breed

Ratings firm Zenith Partners has given new boutique manager Magellan a "recommended" rating on the back of its recently launched Magellan Global fund. Zenith endorses Magellan Global for client portfolios with an allocation to global resources, real ...

Low frills, high returns

In a world where many fund managers pump performance through frenzied financial engineering, boutique manager Hyperion keeps it simple to stay on top. For a fund manager that's ranked number one in Australian equities by Mercer for the 10 years to 31 ...

Assets growth kills alpha: State Street

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 6 NOV 2007
Assets under management (AUM) growth can have a significant impact on alpha generation unless models are altered to deal with capacity issues, according to State Street Associates vice president Simon Myrgren. Myrgren said State Street had developed ...

FPA chair joins FPSB

... been in financial services for more than 15 years and was previously a director of HLB Mann Judd Financial Services, a boutique financial planning licensee. Her term on the FPA Board finishes end of next month. Coinciding with the appointment, FPSB is ...

Epoch boutique heads Down Under

A top performing US-based international boutique is coming to Australia in two weeks as part of an exclusive distribution deal with Grant Samuel Funds Management, a new multi-affiliated fund manager headed by ex-Credit Suisse Asset Management head Andrew ...

NAB establishes new boutique incubator

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 1 NOV 2007
National Australia Bank Group has established a new boutique incubator division, nabInvest, to help expand the company's presence in the boutique space. Garry Mulcahy, who returned from the UK for the position, will be the new division's chief executive. ...