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S&P upgrades Global Value Fund

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  TUESDAY, 2 OCT 2007
... Poor's Fund Services has upgraded boutique manager Global Value Investors' (GVI) GVI Global Industrial Share Fund to three stars. GVI, a joint venture between Investors Mutual and Treasury Group, is a global equity manager with a dividend focused investment ...

Generation fund gets three-stars

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 28 SEP 2007
The Generation Global Sustainability fund has received a three-star rating from Standard & Poor's and an "approved" recommendation from Zenith. The fund is distributed exclusively in Australia by Colonial First State (CFS). It is managed by US-based ...

Three stars for Japan

... Standard & Poor's Fund Services has rated both the Perennial Wholesale Japan trust and the Fidelity Japan fund with three stars. The Perennial fund is a benchmark unaware high-conviction portfolio. Commenting on fund, S&P fund analyst Miles Collins said ...

Advisers urged to exit UBS Aussie fund

Ratings firm Standard & Poor's Fund Services has downgraded the UBS Australian Share Fund from four to two stars and recommended that advisers find an alternative manager for their "core" Australian-equities investment. While UBS is not the only fund ...

SELECT scores four stars for diversified funds

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUL 2007
... Portfolio and Select Defensive Portfolio diversified funds a four star rating. S&P fund analyst Tara Bell said, "The four stars reflects our high conviction that risk-adjusted fund returns will consistently exceed relevant investment objectives and returns ...

No multi-sector managers deserve five-stars: S&P

... four-star ratings were Vanguard, BT Financial, MLC and Barclays Global Investors. Of all the fund managers rated, 28 got four-stars, 26 got three-stars and five were rated two-stars. The spate of fund managers leaving big firms and setting up shop or ...

Legg Mason FOHF rated four stars

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 13 APR 2007
Legg Mason's fund of hedge funds product the Legg Mason Permal Investment Holdings Trust has been awarded a four star rating from Standard & Poor's (S&P). S&P fund analyst, Lee Comper, said the rating was awarded on the back of a stable and highly experienced ...

ABN AMRO loses property securities manager

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 2 APR 2007
... Fuie Chong in Asia and the European portfolio manager, Menno Sloterdijk. Standard & Poor's (S&P) rated the portfolio two stars in its last review, citing continued personnel turnover and team stability as issues. On the back of the latest departure S&P ...

DeAM sets sights firmly on alternatives

MICHELLE BALTAZAR, HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 23 MAR 2007
... international listed property trusts have been unaffected. These include the RREEF Paladin Property Securities Fund (three stars), the RREEF Global (ex Australia) Property Securities Fund (four stars), the RREEF Global Property Securities Fund (four ...

Small cap suffers a shake up

... Management Australian Small Companies fund and the Credit Suisse Private Investment Australian Small Companies Fund to two stars after the departures of their small cap portfolio managers. Matthew Booker left last month and Stephen Atkinson, will also ...