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Market uncertainty stalls K2 float

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 17 AUG 2007
... all investors who paid for shares will receive their refunds. Founded in 1999, K2 Asset Management is a Melbourne based boutique fund manager group that specialise in absolute return strategies. The proposed listing would have created a listed group ...

Three stars for Japan

... benchmark unaware high-conviction portfolio. Commenting on fund, S&P fund analyst Miles Collins said, "Perennial nurtures a boutique-style environment, while enjoying the benefits of having a large parent overseeing administration, compliance, and head-office ...

Platforms divided on shelf space fees

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 14 AUG 2007
... argued shelf fees did have a negative effect on competition. "What shelf space has meant for fund managers is the smaller boutique players are finding it very difficult to distribute their products & so in some regards, shelf space has stifled performance." ...

QIC invests in UK pure alpha fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
... products and hedge funds. The team is headed by London-based David Elms, previously one of the founders of Melbourne boutique Portfolio Partners. Henderson associate director Richard Clarke said: "Henderson welcomes QIC's investment as part of its groundbreaking ...

Centric snaps up lending firm

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 13 AUG 2007
Centric Wealth has acquired boutique lending and brokerage firm Kingsbridge & Eagle (K&E), expanding its lending division and taking it further down the path of a European-style private bank. K&E specialise in providing mortgages, commercial finance ...

BT chief Coombe explains spin-off

BT Financial Group is inundated with CVs after the group outlined plans to partially list its investment management arm, a move that gives all staff members an equity stake in the new company. The group's chief executive Rob Coombe said that resumes ...

Westpac to list wealth management arm

... illustrates one of the key trends in the industry where an increasing number of fund managers want the freedom of working in a boutique fund but with the muscle of a large corporate group. Perennial, Macquarie and Australian Unity are among the investment ...

Hip to be outside the square

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 9 AUG 2007
... the point that small funds have just as many opportunities in the market, and in fact they can have more because their boutique size means they can seize opportunities too small to be considered by much larger funds. "Our boutique size means we can get ...

WRF taps demand for alternatives

... in Australia and the demand by investors for global alternative assets to provide out-performance." WRF is a WA-based boutique fund manager with more than $300 million in assets under management. Prior to the change in business strategy, the group ran ...

Treasury group seeds another boutique

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUL 2007
... Group (TTG), the funds management incubation and development group, has entered into an agreement to establish a new boutique asset manager to be known as Cannae Capital Partners that will target Australian and New Zealand equities. The new manager ...