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AustralianSuper to double size of in-house investment team

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 20 OCT 2014
... internal managers will be managing around $6.7 billion. The fund is hiring experts across most asset classes, including small caps, debt markets, property and infrastructure. The new international equities team is the most notable addition to the fund's ...

Bespoke approach key to keeping mandates: Acadian

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  FRIDAY, 26 SEP 2014
... won't want to do it, whether for costs or philosophical reasons. They might not be bothered having an emerging markets small caps strategy, for example." Walsh said Acadian's quantitative approach to investment - what he calls the 'systematic application ...

Challenger adds Australian equity boutique

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2014
... to this, Meagher spent several years in London at Henderson Global Investors with responsibility for managing a US Small Caps fund, a research analyst for the US consumer sector and a member of the US hedge fund team. AretA(C) will initially specialise ...

Capacity issues drive super funds in-house

JAMES FERNYHOUGH  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2014
... valuable. Alongside capacity issues, he said super funds were expressing more interest in the valuation potential of small caps. "One of the areas where there is a lot of increased activity in terms of internalisation is Australian equities. And because ...

Investors beware IPOs

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2014
... any potential stock, with a focus on the fundamentals and a long-term horizon. As a fund manager focus on Australian small caps, Hyperion conducts a range of analysis on the investment potential of companies looking to list for the first time. "It is ...

In with the old, out with the new

BENJAMIN ONG  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAY 2014
... upon rationales why Wall Streeters are happy... or should be happy. I even counted the ways on this space yesterday: "Small caps - Russell 2000 up by 1.4% overnight - are back in favour. So are tech stocks - up 1.2%. US releases of the day were positive ...

The name is bonds

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 MAY 2014
... it's still May - the season of going away. But there's good news a-plenty that could explain Wall Street's good mood. Small caps - Russell 2000 up by 1.4% overnight - are back in favour. So are tech stocks - up 1.2%. US releases of the day were positive ...

Watching you watching me watching you

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 MAY 2014
... 1.3%; the Dow's minus 1.2%; the Nasdaq's minus 1.9%. The latest spin spun by the spinmeisters is it's because of the small caps - the David's of Wall Street are leading the Goliath's by their noses. Small caps up, big ones up... small caps down... The ...

Channel Capital acquires QIC small cap business

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 29 APR 2014
... fund (RRE Global Property Securities) and a global equities fund, and now the QIC team will provide a new Australian small caps capability to be known as Discovery. Discovery will join Channel Capital with around $300 million in funds under management ...

May worry

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 28 APR 2014
... breakdowns in 2000 and 2007 are once again showing signs of leading deterioration this time around. In 2000, it was small caps (IWM) and consumer discretionary (XLY) stocks that made the first definitive move to the downside through their inability to ...