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Forensic tool for private equity

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... difficult economic climate," she said. More super funds are demanding better performance data from their private equity fund managers in the wake of the market crisis, particularly as valuations fall by as much as 30 per cent in certain sub-segments ...

Sentiment tips back to Aussie shares

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... points, suggesting they expect no further sustained falls. Russell Investments recently surveyed 40 leading Australian fund managers for its latest quarterly Investment Manager Outlook (IMO). The flipside of the neutral outlook is managers are dispirited ...

No fast bucks: Costello

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAR 2009
... international level will be the critical ingredients to survive and learn from the GFC, he said. "I encourage you to be fund managers and trustees who take seriously the values, the alignment and [the strategies on] how to build a sustainable future," ...

Pay to perform

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2009
The Federal Government is granting super funds and fund managers more powers to reject or approve executive remuneration schemes, marking the end of an era blotted by outrageous 'golden handshakes' and excessive bonuses. Under legislative reforms announced ...

BUSS(Q) buys Aussie equities

RUTH LIEW AND MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 MAR 2009
... focus for the Queensland fund is real estate investment trusts, which last year saw some of the worst performing fund managers lose up to 85 per cent of clients' funds invested in Australian REITs for the year to December 2008. "We never invest in REITs ...

Van Eyk enhances risk ratings

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 17 MAR 2009
... risk but to gain a better understanding of the nature of asset sector and investment strategy risks undertaken by fund managers in seeking positive returns," said Nigel Douglas, van Eyk head of investment research. This enhancement follows Stephen van ...

New boutiques, more advisers for NAB

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 16 MAR 2009
The recently combined wealth unit of National Australia Bank is on the hunt for new boutique fund managers and top quality advisers following last week's merger announcement of MLC, nab private wealth and nabInvest. Steve Tucker, the new head of the ...

Perennial and Hyperion sign UN PRI

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 12 MAR 2009
Home grown boutique fund managers Perennial Investment Partners and Hyperion Asset Management have become the latest Aussie signatories of the UN PRI. According to Perennial chief executive Anthony Patterson, the fund manager had taken an interest in ...

Instos cool on direct infrastructure

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 MAR 2009
... overall performance. The survey received more than 230 responses. More than 40 per cent of respondents were asset or fund managers, over 20 per cent were institutional investors and 14 per cent were service providers, involved in technology or the me ...

Planners tune in to ETFs

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 9 MAR 2009
Over the next decade, exchange traded funds (ETFs) could put management fees of many Aussie fund managers under pressure - marking ETFs as the next boom market for fee-for-service planners. Bruce Baker, director of Queensland-based Puzzle Financial ...