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Small Companies fund bags three stars

MATT WOODINGTON  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 FEB 2011
The Pre Select Australian Small Companies Fund, managed by MLC, has been awarded a three star rating by Standard & Poor's after more than six months 'on hold'. MLC replaced Mercer as principal investment adviser to the fund in July 2010 and the managerial ...

Trinity3 names SMA portfolio managers

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... she added. UBS will offer access to its UBS HALO (High Alpha Long Only), UBS HALO Continuously Protected, UBS Australian Small Companies and UBS Property Securities investment capabilities. Platypus, which is part-owned by Australian Unity, will provide ...

IOOF awards Legg Mason $100m small caps mandate

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 2 DEC 2010
IOOF has given Legg Mason a $100 million Australian small companies mandate after consolidating its United Funds Management and MultiMix assets into a single portfolio. Dan Farmer of IOOF said what appealed to them was Legg Mason's stable and experienced ...

Better boring than bubble

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 9 NOV 2010
... the last 6 to 12 months," he said. Proof that the fund's strategy works for the prudent investor, the Celeste Australian Small Company Fund has outperformed its benchmark over one-year, three-year, five-years and 10-years to October. Villante said the ...

AvSuper awards BEM mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 27 SEP 2010
... below their perceived long-term value. The fund also recently handed out $35 million to Invesco to invest in Australian small cap equities. Invesco will oversee 10 per cent of AvSuper's overall Australian equities exposure. AvSuper was set up in 1990 ...

AMP gives $200m small cap mandate to UBS

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... $200 million plus Australian equity small companies mandate from AMP. AMP's use of an external manager for its Australian Small Companies Fund follows the departure of former senior portfolio manager Michael Hughes in April. The departure led S&P fund ...

No change in Concord strategies: Invesco

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 27 AUG 2010
... managed by Concord," noted the statement. Concord's Australian equity business will complement Invesco's existing Australian small cap capability under Cynthia Jenkins. Jenkins will manage the strategy separately out of Melbourne, and there will be no ...

Challenger back in the black, annuity sales trebles

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 23 AUG 2010
Challenger Financial Services has staged a strong profit recovery during the year, buoyed by a record performance from its annuities business and a 22 per cent rise in gross assets under management to almost $24 billion. The group reported results this ...

Challenger poaches ING portfolio manager for small cap fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
Challenger's launch of an Australian small companies fund, its tenth boutique, inadvertently resulted in an ING small cap fund being placed 'on hold' yesterday. The departure of Sinclair Currie, former lead portfolio manager at ING, for Challenger prompted ...

Van Eyk strengthens investment team

PRESS RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... prior to his promotion. Gleeson recently led the firm's Japanese equities review and is currently managing the Australian Small Companies review while Lam previously led the Asian equities research. Meanwhile, van Eyk appointed Francis Lim as an investment ...