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AMG answers demand for US boutiques

Affiliated Managers Group (AMG), an American asset manager that part-owns established boutique funds, has quietly amassed $8 billion in Australian mandates and hopes to make a bigger splash later this year through the launch of new global products. ...

Wyllie launches new 'niche within a niche' company

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 10 JUL 2007
Boutique investment company Wyllie Group has launched a new niche wholesale funds management division called Viburnum. The division will be 50 per cent owned by the company, with the balance of the equity held by the directors, including Viburnum chairman ...

Principal buys $16.5b value fund

... Circle Investors in 2004 and two other fund manager businesses previously. "We are pleased with the progress of our multi-boutique approach to managing acquisitions. By allowing our affiliated firms autonomy over their investment processes, while providing ...

NAB Health just what the doctor ordered

... staff turnover of under two years. Under this model, staff have the opportunity to service their clients much like a boutique business within the group complete with a separate client list, specialisation and additional resources such as more admin staff ...

Watson Wyatt loses senior consultant to Hyperion

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 JUN 2007
... Former Watson Wyatt partner and senior investment consultant, Andrew Spence, will move north to join Queensland-based boutique Hyperion Asset Management as a senior portfolio manager, becoming the first new team member in 10 years. Spence resigned from ...

Massive inflows see new ideas

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  FRIDAY, 1 JUN 2007
... now "not looking at what an asset looks like, but what it does," said Dunnin. However, the traditionally progressive boutique managers were not enjoying the growth period such a change of thinking should entail, Dunnin said. In fact, they were losing ...

New boutiques turning to better processes

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 25 MAY 2007
Responding to consultant demands for more robust business models among boutique money managers, Indian Ocean Rim Asset Management (IOR) is harnessing technology and a globalised workforce to design investment processes normally associated with large ...

A new way for AMP fixed interest

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  MONDAY, 14 MAY 2007
AMP Capital Investors has awarded boutique manager Vianova Asset Management a $75 million mandate for a part of the fixed interest component of its AMP Future Directions Fund. The mandate highlights how more people are looking at fixed interest again ...

AUI JVs a winning formula

... funds under management (FUM) to over $5 billion in under three years thanks to its joint ventures with top-performing boutique fund managers. As more and more star fund managers leave big institutions to strike on their own, AUI decided to go with the ...

Magellan next gen boutique

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 20 APR 2007
The launch of Magellan Financial Group (MFG) signals the dawn of the next generation of boutique financial services companies that are not just specialist manufacturers but integrated and sustainable businesses. MGF evolved in 2006 from the recapitalised ...