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INVESCO global funds back to four stars

HAMISH MADDEN  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 MAY 2006
INVESCO has had the ratings on its Global Matrix Funds reinstated to four stars by Navigator Research, after the funds were placed on hold due to staff departures. Navigator said it originally placed the funds on hold due to two of the three member ...

Outflows to force Challenger fund re-opening

KATE HAGE  |  FRIDAY, 26 MAY 2006
... micro cap funds last month. S&P immediately put the funds on hold and then downgraded the small cap fund from four to three stars and the micro cap fund from three to two stars. Morningstar downgraded the funds from recommended to investment grade where ...

MLIM funds on hold but Rock solid

... Wholesale Global Small Cap fund (unhedged) and the Merrill Lynch Wholesale Hedged Global Small Cap Fund will be moved from three stars to on hold after the departure of the group's North American regional team. They have been replaced by BlackRock's ...

Challenger scores well thanks to QIC

HAMISH MADDEN  |  MONDAY, 1 MAY 2006
... the Custom Choice Diversified Fixed Interest Portfolio and the Custom Choice International Share Portfolio. Scoring three stars was the Custom Choice Boutique Australian Share Fund. The reason for the lower rating had to do with the fund's investment ...

Mum and dad investors want a slice of the private equity pie

... not having access to their capital for long periods as was the case previously. Ratings agency S&P has rated the fund four stars. "The management team is vastly experienced in private equity investments, and with investments being only in listed securities ...

Advance Asian Equity Fund scores S&P four stars

Advance Asset Management (Advance) has had its Advance Asian Equity Fund upgraded to four stars by S&P. S&P said that Maple-Brown Abbott (MBA), the underlying manager of the fund, continued to leverage its successful investment process into the Asian ...

Follow the golden BRIC road: S&P

... ratings which shows you that there is still a high level of competency there." In the global emerging markets category four stars went to Dimensional, Lazard and Legg Mason. In Asia ex Japan four stars were awarded to Aberdeen, Advance, Challenger and ...

S&P rates Fidelity India fund

S&P has rated Fidelity's newly launched India Fund three stars but cautioned that a single emerging market fund comes with greater risk. S&P fund analyst Evan Davey rated the fund a "well-resourced team" adding that they had a "consistent bottom-up ...

S&P rates Pengana "first mover" fund

... Absolute Return Real Estate Fund which has returned 23 per cent annually since its 2004 inception. Ward added that the three stars was also assigned on the experience of the team, which is headed up by former BT property securities manager Stuart Stu ...

High yield mortgage funds score high ratings

... Mortgage Trust, Australian Unity (Wholesale) High Yield Mortgage Trust and JF Aqua High Income Fund have all been rated four stars, indicating that the ratings firm has high conviction that these funds will beat their benchmark and their lower-rated ...