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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 ...

AvSuper selects Hastings and Invesco

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 13 JUL 2010
AvSuper has given $35 million to Invesco to invest in Australian small cap equities and $24 million to Hastings Funds Management as part of its expanding global infrastructure portfolio. Invesco was appointed in June to invest in Australian small cap ...

Lonsec reviews small cap funds

LONSEC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
... received a 'highly recommended' rating from Lonsec. Two new funds were reviewed, including the CFS-Realindex RAFI Australian Small Companies fund and Perennial Value Small Companies fund. Lin Ngin, senior investment analyst at Lonsec, said the small-caps ...

Ironbark buys Patriot Asset Management

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... Small Companies Fund rebranded and relaunched as the Ironbark Karara Australian Share Fund and Ironbark Karara Australian Small Companies Fund in May 2010. Both funds, with total assets under management in excess of $100 million as at 31 March 2010 ...

AustralianSuper pours $200m into Northcape Capital

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
AustralianSuper has recently invested $200 million with specialist Australian small-caps fund manager Northcape Capital. This will bring AustralianSuper's weighting in small-caps to approximately 8.5 per cent of its Australian equities portfolio. Mark ...

Fairview joins Alpha managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 19 APR 2010
... Partners is a boutique Australian investment manager established in 2008, whose sole focus is on investing in Australian small companies. This is through a core active approach to investing and broad based coverage across both the industrial and resources ...

BT/Advance multi-manager makes stronger global push

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 16 APR 2010
Advance Investment Solutions, the combined BT Financial Group and Advance multi-manager teams following the Westpac/St. George merger, has completed a year-long review of its manager list, and the new line-up is more global in flavour. Patrick Farrell ...

Celeste FM 'better placed': Villante

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 21 JAN 2010
... Villante's initial announcement. These fund ratings have now been restored by Standard & Poor's. The Celeste Australian Small Companies fund is rated 'four stars' and the Celeste Australian Equity fund is rated 'three stars' by Standard & Poor's. "For ...