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ING wins $1bn employer super book

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 10 NOV 2009
ING Australia is transitioning the Legg Mason Corporate Super Mastertrust book, which represents $1 billion in funds under management across 20,000 member accounts, to the firm's Corporate Super suite. The firm won the trusteeship of Legg Mason Asset ...

EQT and Schroder get ratings upgrade

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
... to four stars following a sector review by Standard & Poor's. The fixed interest sector review also resulted in the Legg Mason Global Multi Sector Bond Trust (Class X) downgraded from four stars to three and the ING Wholesale Diversified Fixed Interest ...

S&P withdraws six ratings

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
Standard & Poor's has withdrawn the ratings on a MIR fund, a Legg Mason fund and four AMP Capital Investors funds at the request of fund managers. The ratings firm withdrew the 'four stars' rating on the MIR Australian Equities Fund Class A, an Australian ...

Legg Mason shuts down defensive trust

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
Legg Mason has closed its wholesale defensive trust, citing its FUM of less than $10 million made it impractical to continue offering the product. According to a May update of the fund, which has $9.5 million in funds under management, the fund manager ...

AMIST narrows mandate line-up

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 6 APR 2009
The Australian Meat Industry Superannuation Trust (AMIST) has dropped Legg Mason and PM Capital from its fund manager line-up as part of its investment rationalisation strategy. The $9 million Legg Mason emerging markets mandate was cut two months ago ...

OneAnswer adds six

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
... Pankhurst. The new funds added to the OneAnswer platform include BT Core Australian Shares, Fidelity Australian Equities, Legg Mason Global Multi Sector Bond, RARE Infrastructure Value, T.Rowe Price Global Equity, and Vanguard Index Diversified Bond. ...

Aviva and Legg Mason hire more BDMs

COMPANY RELEASES  |  MONDAY, 23 FEB 2009
Aviva hired Adam Tyley and Davina Poletto as business development managers while Legg Mason appointed Lia Gunawan to a similar role. Tyley returns to Aviva after travelling around Europe. Before his stint at Aviva, Tyley worked at Professional Investment ...

Legg Mason expands team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 20 JAN 2009
Legg Mason Australian Equities has appointed ex-Citigroup small cap expert Julian Mulcahy as portfolio manager and research analyst for Australian small companies. Mulcahy will focus his efforts on listed Australian companies that fall outside the S&P/ASX ...

Legg Mason AM hires Titchkosky

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 11 SEP 2008
Legg Mason Asset Management Australia hired Beau Titchkosky as vice president - business development. Titchkosky has more than 13 years experience in financial services mostly in distribution roles. Before joining Legg Mason, he spent five years working ...

New business head at Legg Mason

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2008
Legg Mason Australia has appointed Annalisa Clark to the role of acting business head of the asset management firm. Clark, currently the joint business head of Legg Mason Australia, has been with the company for 12 years and is currently responsible ...