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Finding more value in asset consulting: Watson Wyatt

... not on their market capitalisation. Other ideas that Watson Wyatt will be putting through to clients include backing boutique managers much earlier in their life cycle, working on benchmark insensitive mandates and developing 'highly concentrated' portfolios. ...

Perennial appoints ex-VFMC numbers man

Perennial Investment Partners has snapped up the former financial controller of the Victorian Funds Management Corporation (VFMC), Niall Keane, for a similar role within the firm. As the new financial controller, part of Keane's brief is to handle the ...

Fortia builds on experience

HAMISH MADDEN  |  THURSDAY, 17 AUG 2006
Boutique property fund manager Fortia Funds Management has announced the addition of a new director to help drive its development ambitions. Long time industry stalwart John Cooper has been appointed to the board. He will focus on driving development ...

Hyperion chairman abdicates

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 15 AUG 2006
The chairman of boutique value manager Hyperion Asset Management, Charles Kiefel, has resigned from his role after three years in the position citing future potential conflicts of interest risks. Kiefel said there could be future conflicts between Hyperion's ...

Advance creates chief sales role

Multi-boutique manager Advance Asset Management has appointed one of its top performing sales managers to the newly created role of national sales manager. Tony Skinner, who has been with Advance for six years, has taken on the new role and will be ...

Challenger re-invents distribution team

... Meanwhile, Michael Lovett will move from his current national key account role to a new role as head of business management - boutique partnerships. Queensland state manager, Adrian Stewart, will transfer to NSW to replace Burgess as NSW state manager. ...

Navigator names its top five Aussies

KATE HAGE  |  MONDAY, 31 JUL 2006
Navigator Research has revealed its top five Australian equity funds and has included three more boutique managers this year. The top five funds from a pool of 31, all receiving a five star rating, were Ausbil Australian Active Equity Fund, Barclays ...

Macq merges hedge funds to form $1bn MQ

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2006
... offering investors products with low correlations to traditional investments. "MQ combines the Equity Markets Group's boutique approach to absolute return and specialist equity style funds management with Macquarie's institutional risk management and ...

QIC hands global mandate to Altrinsic

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 JUL 2006
... Equity Fund, instigated with the aim of building an equal regional and global focus for the fund. Altrinsic is a US based boutique fully owned by employees and is a bottom up active value manager. Greg Liddell, QIC's head of international equities, said ...

Staff churn afflicts underperforming small cap sector

KATE HAGE  |  TUESDAY, 25 JUL 2006
Staff churn affected one-quarter of Australian small cap managers. This at a time when the sector notably underperformed could help drive down the ratings of 25 per cent of all S&P rated managers. In its latest sector update released today S&P found ...