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INGIM hires two for Aussie equities

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 6 SEP 2010
... departure of Sinclair Currie for Challenger in August. Standard & Poor's Fund Services, which placed the ING Emerging Companies Trust funds 'on hold' in August after the departure, said that it was reviewing the fund manager and will look to have the ...

Challenger poaches ING portfolio manager for small cap fund

JOHN MCDULING  |  WEDNESDAY, 18 AUG 2010
... lead portfolio manager at ING, for Challenger prompted Standard & Poor's Fund Services to place the ING Emerging Companies Trust funds 'on hold'. Currie will head the new fund alongside Alex Milton, current portfolio manager for Challenger's smaller ...

Legg Mason shuts down defensive trust

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... Mason will liquidate the product and distribute the proceeds to the unitholder. Meanwhile, the Legg Mason Small Companies Trust, which has $73 million invested from retail and insto investors was recently rated "investment grade" by ratings house Lonsec. ...

Ausbil, Eley and Patriot top review

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 9 APR 2009
... Investors Small Companies Fund, Challenger Wholesale Microcap fund; Concise Mid Cap fund; Perennial Value Smaller Companies Trust and UBS Emerging Companies fund were all rated 'recommended' following the review. Brian Eley, Eley Griffiths Group director ...

OptiMix appoints Schroders to global small caps portfolio

HAMISH MADDEN  |  FRIDAY, 23 FEB 2007
... investment portfolio. Capacity has become an issue owing to the strong growth experienced in the OptiMix Global Smaller Companies Trust. The appointment of Schroders allows continued growth," said OptiMix chief investment officer, Emmanuel Calligeris. ...

Challenger small cap fund tops performance tables: survey

Three funds - the Challenger Australian Small Companies Fund, the GMO Small Companies Trust and Perpetual Smaller Companies Share Fund - continue to lead the risk-adjusted performances of Australian small cap managers, according to a new survey. All ...

Equity Trustees and SG Hiscock team up for a third offering

... teamed up with La Salle Investment Management to offer a global property trust fund, while the EQT SGH Smaller Companies Trust was recently closed to new investors. According to the pair, the underlying SGH Absolute Return Trust was established in October ...

FSIU releases specialist fund ratings

... highest AAA rating. The trio comprised the Challenger Australian Small Companies Fund, the GMO Australian Small Companies Trust and the Perpetual PST Smaller Companies Share Fund. However, only one of eight Australian inflation indexed bond funds (the ...

Morningstar gives one star to ING small caps fund

... Australian equities small caps GARP management based on the weak performance of its flagship Wholesale Emerging Companies Trust which has fallen markedly since June 2001, and on the high turnover of its Australian equities staff in recent times. IIM's ...

INVESCO scores four star rating from Morningstar

... flagship smaller companies fund is the INVESCO wholesale - Australian smaller companies fund (formerly County Smaller Companies Trust) in which retail fund is invested. INVESCO has identified an optimum level of funds under management of approximately ...