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S&P assesses Schroder Australia to be sound

Standard & Poor's (S&P) has awarded the Australian equity funds, the hybrid security funds, and the fixed income funds an Assirt rating of four stars. The rating agency has also assessed the manager's capabilities in the business management, Australian ...

Super launch for Virgin

... of funds management. Research commissioned from Morningstar by Virgin found just 36 per cent of active Australian equity fund managers outperformed their comparable index after costs. "Picking a consistent winner is like entering the lottery for the ...

Paragon rebrands, goes insto

... Rist says. The new name takes effect today. The two investment funds - Paragon High Yield Fund and Paragon Australian Equity Fund - will retain their current names in the short term.

It's only the beginning for GSJBW's Australian share fund

Morningstar Research has awarded the strategy of Goldman Sachs JBWere's (GSJBW) Wholesale Australian Equity Fund an 'investment grade' rating, acknowledging the lost ground the fund made up over the past 12 months but believing it now needs to consolidate ...

Positive news at last for Rivkin Financial Services

After a week of turmoil the board of Rivkin Financial Services (RFS) has been able to produce some positive news with the appointment of FSP Equities Management as the company's investment manager to oversee for the next two years. FSP will invest RFS's ...

Navigator gives eight funds the five star treatment

According to Navigator's annual review of the Australian equity sector only eight funds from five different fund managers justified a five star rating. The review encompassed 33 fund managers and the rating of 67 Australian equity funds. The managers ...

PM Capital Australian Opportunities fund closes

... PM Capital will close its Australian Opportunities Fund to new investments. The concentrated long/short Australian equity fund will be closed from the end of December. Existing unitholders may however continue to reinvest their income distributions. ...

Schroders maintains reputation

Schroders' Australian Equity Fund S Class has bounced back to positive returns over the last year outperforming the 200 Index's 20.71 per cent by 2.57 per cent. This marks a welcome return to form for the fund after poor performance during the 2002/03 ...

Demand remains for underperforming market neutral investments

... the fact fund managers of these plans provided poor returns last year in comparison to more traditional Australian equity fund managers. Market neutral strategies are designed to eliminate market risks while achieving absolute returns with low correlation ...

Active outpacing passive returns for Australian equity funds; Mercer

Active Australian equity fund managers outperformed the ASX benchmark index by 0.5% during the past three months, according to the latest survey results from Mercer Investment Consulting. Of the 93 Australian equity fund managers covered by the survey ...