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Babson Capital targets growth in Oz

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 24 MAR 2010
... Meanwhile the long term plans for Babson locally include branching out into different asset classes, including investment grade fixed income and infrastructure lending. "The common theme is that they will be high value add... and transactions in the ...

Waked triggers double downgrade

MORNINGSTAR REPORT  |  FRIDAY, 5 MAR 2010
... BlackRock Scientific Australian Equities strategy has received a double downgrade from 'highly recommended' to 'investment grade' by Morningstar after the departure of Morry Waked. The Morningstar report said Waked, former global chief investment officer ...

Russell ups alternatives exposure

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2010
... markets debt exposure. Logan Circle Partners runs a high-yield debt mandate concentrating on the higher tier of sub-investment grade names, around the BB rating. Massachusetts-based DDJ Capital Management manages the lower tier, using a high conviction ...

MLC adds eight debt managers

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 22 FEB 2010
... was part of the broader global bond sector. The firm has also classified debt securities into three categories: investment grade bonds, non-investment grade bond and inflation-linked bonds. Allocations to investment grade and inflation-linked bonds will ...

GSJBWAM Aussie equities wins rating upgrades

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... after gaining another rating upgrade from Lonsec. Lonsec upgraded the GSJBW Australian equities portfolio from 'investment grade' to 'recommended'. This is the second upgrade the Australian equities team has received from Lonsec. Phil Gardner, head of ...

Wellington and Omega win ING mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 10 DEC 2009
... fundamentally cheap. "The Optimix team believe we are presented with an excellent opportunity to gain exposure to global investment grade credit. "With this in mind the decision was made to introduce an investment grade corporate bond mandate into the ...

EQT and PIMCO get van Eyk tick

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 SEP 2009
... credit as an independent sector. The decision to do so was driven by the attractive opportunities available across investment grade corporate bonds, as well as the growing client interest in credit investments during late 2008 and early 2009. "Thorough ...

Ipac funnels $50m into alts

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 1 SEP 2009
... management at the end of June, the time is ripe to add corporate debt securities - including those that are non-investment grade - and mortgage securities to clients' portfolios, as some offer better returns than equities in the short to medium term. ...

All PE signs point to China

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 27 AUG 2009
... level of experience and professionalism where more than 100 of those managers are considered to be institutional investment grade. Adveq predicts that, in the aftermath of the global financial crisis, the Asian private equity market will continue to ...

QIC boosts fixed interest team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 25 AUG 2009
... appointed Andrew Ticehurst as senior portfolio manager, GFI Macro and Max Bulloch as senior portfolio manager, Investment Grade Credit. The appointments were made after a global search to find the right skill set to complement the growing GFI team which ...