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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 ...

QIC sees stronger Aus equities in 2011

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 DEC 2010
... million worth of investments for institutions through the QIC Australian Equities Fund and the QIC Active Large Companies Fund - both of which focus on liquid, large cap stocks. "Broadly speaking, the top down thematic is that China's economic growth ...

AMP gives $200m small cap mandate to UBS

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 23 SEP 2010
... 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 services to ...

Rising markets boost Perpetual's bottom line

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 24 AUG 2010
... rebuff to growing suggestions that investors should put their money in index funds. Perpetual Investments' small companies fund remains is strongest performer with 14.67 per cent excess return over its benchmark in the past year, and a 8.28 percent excess ...

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 ...

Lonsec reviews small cap funds

LONSEC RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 14 MAY 2010
The Eley Griffiths Group Small Companies fund, Ausbil Australian Emerging Leaders fund and the Pengana Emerging Companies fund received a 'highly recommended' rating from Lonsec. Two new funds were reviewed, including the CFS-Realindex RAFI Australian ...

Hyperion Aus Growth Companies eyes ASX300

MEDIA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 MAY 2010
Hyperion Australian Growth Companies fund gets A* rating from van Eyk Research after Hyperion changed the composition of the fund from Broad Cap to ASX 300. Last year, van Eyk had already rated Hyperion's separately managed account (SMA) portfolio ...

S&P places sell rating on AMP fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 APR 2010
S&P Fund Services has assigned a 'sell' rating to the AMP Capital Small Companies Fund after AMP Capital Investors announced the resignation of its portfolio manager, Michael Hughes. This leads to uncertainty surrounding the future of an Australian ...

Ironbark buys Patriot Asset Management

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 APR 2010
... completion scheduled for 30 April 2010. The acquisition will see the Patriot Australian Share Fund and the Patriot Small Companies Fund rebranded and relaunched as the Ironbark Karara Australian Share Fund and Ironbark Karara Australian Small Companies ...

Fairview small caps strategy gains traction

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
Fairview Equity Partners has gained $30 million in funds for its small companies fund, which beat its benchmark by more than 8 per cent in the year to February. The fund manager, founded by three Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management executives, Chris ...