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Boutique shuts doors

KANIKA SOOD  |  FRIDAY, 24 JAN 2020
... investment analyst when they started the boutique. They later added Doug Macphillamy from UBS from CFS's core Australian equities business and Eleni Xydas from STS Capital Partners. Bennelong has 11 boutiques under its banner and has expanded to the ...

The ingredients of a successful fund manager

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... compared the size of investment teams and five-year performance (as at September end) for the fundamentally-driven global equities managers on its approved product list. It classified the managers as small (up to six investment team members), medium ...

Aussie investment gurus delve into alternatives

ALLY SELBY  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... market continuing to perform after a stellar 2019, with nearly half (45%) responding that they will not be changing their equities allocation for the next 18 months. One third of the investors (32%) said they intend to add to their equities exposures. ...

Investment Leadership Awards finalists revealed

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 22 JAN 2020
... deviation of monthly returns, semi-standard deviation and sum of negative returns. The asset classes included are Australian equities, international equities, smart beta, property, infrastructure, fixed interest, multi-asset, real returns and ESG. The ...

Aberdeen head of global equities to leave

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
Aberdeen Standard Investments has appointed a new head of global equities as Stephen Docherty resigns for personal reasons. Docherty will leave the firm at end of February. ASI's deputy head of global equities Dominic Byrne, who has been with the firm ...

New super fund targets millennials

ELIZABETH MCARTHUR  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
... shareholders from 2012 to 2014. Kent was also the portfolio manager for a private pool of capital that invested in listed equities which returned 22% per year over a 3 year period." Ong spent nine years at Macquarie Group in Sydney and London. Hua also ...

Boutique shuts Aussie equities fund

KANIKA SOOD  |  TUESDAY, 21 JAN 2020
A Brisbane boutique is winding up an Aussie equities fund, after an investor decided to redeem their money, representing roughly 60% of the fund's assets, just before Christmas. Ganes Value Growth Fund was terminated on the January 15. The fund had ...

Aussie share funds boast stellar 2019

ALLY SELBY  |  MONDAY, 20 JAN 2020
... 300. The upper quartile of funds returned 26.4% for 2019, significantly higher than the benchmark. Mercer Australian Equities Researcher Yee Hou Seck said the fourth quarter was particularly strong for Australia's share fund managers. "Mercer's latest ...

Analysts remain wary as ASX breaks 7000

ALLY SELBY  |  FRIDAY, 17 JAN 2020
... emotional trigger point to some investors," Doyle said. "Market-wide attention-grabbing events can lead investors to sell equities as they perceive that the level of the equity market is high... As a result, we often see a few lacklustre trading sessions ...

PIMCO a hit with Aussie instos

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 JAN 2020
... of the market for new institutional money in the year. Some boutiques were not far behind, with Bennelong's Aussie equities boutique Touchstone Asset Management raising $1.6 billion, Melbourne boutique Yarra Capital raising $790 million from instos ...