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Private equity activity improves: research

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 4 NOV 2011
Private equity and venture capital fund managers have invested record highs in Australian companies in the past three years according to the Australian Private Equity and Venture Capital Association. The annual report into the primary activities of ...

Bennelong and Legg Mason get ratings boosts

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... Busst, investment analyst, Zenith. Campbell and Bendeich established the joint venture after leaving the UBS Small Companies Fund, which has been assigned a three start rating by Standard & Poor's. Prior to their departure the fund had four stars but ...

SMAs drive interest into concentrated Australian equity funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 2 SEP 2011
... downgraded in Lonsec's latest Australian Equity (Concentrated) Sector Review. Both the Hyperion Australian Growth Companies Fund and the Tyndall Australian Share Wholesale Portfolio took the top rating of Highly Recommended in the new research report ...

Ex UBS managers resurface for Bennelong small caps fund

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 MAY 2011
... Australian small caps fund. Campbell and Bendeich, who have been on gardening leave since departing the UBS Small Companies Fund on April 4, have set up Avoca Investment Management, a newly established Bennelong boutique. Jarrod Brown, chief executive ...

Fund managers follow the herd

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 29 APR 2011
... on "hold", the second lowest rating. In other ratings news, Standard & Poor's has kept the UBS Australian Small Companies Fund on hold after it appointed a new manager to the fund, replacing two members of the three-man team who suddenly left in April. ...

UBS lost fund finds a manager

ALISON BEVEGE  |  THURSDAY, 28 APR 2011
UBS Global Asset Management has found a new portfolio manager for the Small Companies Fund, left in limbo after two members of the three-man management team left earlier this month. Victor Gomes, most recently a portfolio manager at Selector Funds Management ...

UBS staff gone, ratings on hold

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 18 APR 2011
... Management are urgently looking to replace two portfolio managers of a three-man team who have now left the Small Companies Fund. Portfolio managers John Campbell, executive director, and Jeremy Bendeich, director, are now on 'gardening leave' pending ...

Perpetual to debut global resources

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 15 APR 2011
... is managed by James Bruce, who currently runs the $350 million-plus resources component of the Perpetual Smaller Companies fund (a long-running product with over $1 billion in assets). It was seeded with $5 million in November 2006 (now has $30 million) ...

Asgard adds funds

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 APR 2011
... Australian Equity Fund, AQR Wholesale DELTA Fund - Class 1F, Hyperion Small Growth Companies, Hyperion Australian Growth Companies Fund, Resolution Capital Global Property Securities Fund, Lazard Emerging Markets Fund- I Class and Vanguard High Growth ...

UBS in talks with small-caps team

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 APR 2011
Management of UBS Global Asset Management's Small Companies Fund is in limbo after two members of its three-person team expressed their intention to leave. Ratings agency Standard & Poor's placed the Australian Small Companies Fund on hold due to the ...