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Boutique small cap backer fills bank funding gap

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 7 APR 2010
The credit crisis has proved a boon in business for one local investment house that is taking significant minority shareholdings in micro-cap stocks to gain double-digit returns for investors. Peter Hynd, investment director at Co-Investor Capital Partners ...

Ausbil Dexia Aus equities in high demand

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
Ausbil Dexia, which manages $11.5 billion in Australian equities, has closed its flagship investment funds to new institutional clients after opening the investment strategies briefly last year. Paul Xiradis, chief executive and head of equities at ...

UK pensions call for greater FM engagement

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 6 APR 2010
A UK pension fund association that represents more than $1 trillion has put the world's fund managers on notice and demanded they take their role as shareholders far more seriously. Lindsay Tomlinson, chair at the National Association of Pension Funds ...

Contango clients top up mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
Contango Asset Management's institutional clients have been topping up their small cap investment mandates as the sector's benchmark returned 63 per cent in the year to February. David Stevens, managing director at Contango Asset Management, said more ...

Insto investors win from govt Chi-X approval

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 APR 2010
The government's in-principle approval of Chi-X Australia not only heralds greater market competition but big savings for institutional investors. Chris Bowen, minister for financial services, superannuation and corporate law, backed greater competition ...

ING boosts life risk team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... claims, operations and underwriting within its life risk division. Emlyn Pugh has been appointed national claims manager, Michael Williams as national operations manager and Jeff Gourlie as national underwriting manager. Pugh was most recently executive ...

Fairview small caps strategy gains traction

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAR 2010
... February. The fund manager, founded by three Goldman Sachs JBWere Asset Management executives, Chris Adams, Leigh Cronin and Michael Glenane, was set up in August 2008 and opened its Emerging Companies fund a month later. The fund is available to retail ...

UK bans commission payments from products

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
In a seminal move, the Financial Services Authority (FSA) has banned financial advisers from accepting commissions for recommending a product from 2012. The FSA also ruled that financial advice firms must be upfront about how much they charge for their ...

K2 wins dealer group mandates

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAR 2010
K2 Asset Management has won a number of financial planning dealer group mandates for its Australian equities fund, and a $20 million institutional mandate for its international equities strategy in the past five months. Andrew Hall, head of distribution ...

Clime doubles cash holding

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 29 MAR 2010
The chief investment officer of Clime Investment Management believes the local market is becoming overvalued, prompting the Aussie equities firm to double its cash holdings in certain portfolios. John Abernethy, the fund's CIO said that in just a few ...