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Best performing global equities strategies

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 DEC 2019
... This is 2.9% p.a. higher than the second-best global equities strategy on the list, from US manager MFS Investment Management. Hyperion takes over Magellan on five and three-year basis, outperforming the giant by roughly six percentage points. A relatively ...

Global fixed income trust launched

ELIZA BAVIN  |  MONDAY, 2 DEC 2019
MFS Investment Management has announced the launch of the MFS Global Opportunistic Fixed Income Trust designed to generate returns from diverse sources of alpha in a variety of market conditions. MFS said the trust takes an integrated research approach ...

Global manager welcomes former CFSGAM head

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 JUN 2019
... First State Global Asset Management has joined the leadership team of a $695 billion investment manager. MFS Investment Management has named Daniel Bristow as director of consultant relations in Australia. He joins the firm from Colonial First State ...

Asset manager appoints CIO

KANIKA SOOD  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 DEC 2018
... chief investment officer. Edward M. "Ted" Maloney is moving into the top investment role at Boston-based MFS Investment Management, 13 years after he joined the company as an equity research analyst. Come January 1, he will succeed MFS's Michael ...

MFS executives create advisory council

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
MFS Investment Management has pooled five of its top executives and a retired portfolio manager to form an advisory council that will consult and collaborate with the firm's investment team. The MFS Investment Advisory Council (IAC) will counsel current ...

Financial Standard names Investment Leadership Award winners

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
... RARE Infrastructure Yarra Capital Management International equities - asset class Active core - sector MFS Investment Management (Winner) BlackRock Investment Management Magellan Asset Management Legg Mason QS Investors Schroder Investment Management ...

Reflation narrative lacks substance: MFS

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2017
... tilting back towards higher interest rates ignores persistent macroeconomic headwinds, according to MFS Investment Management chief investment officer, global fixed income Bill Adams. Speaking to Financial Standard, Adams said that he was determined ...

ASIC cancels AFSL, bans former executives and fund managers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... Supreme Court of Queensland, with the court disqualifying four former executives and the fund managers of MFS Investment Management from managing corporations. In May 2016, the court found that former chief executive Michael Christodoulou King, former ...

MFSIM execs use $143.5m in client money to repay debts

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
Five former executives of MFS Investment Management (MFSIM), now known as ACN, have been found liable for breaching their directors' and officers' duties by the Supreme Court of Queensland. The MFS Group, subsequantly known as Octaviar, collapsed in ...

Don't overlook culture and discipline: MFS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... soft-close funds before they are hurt by their size are too often overlooked by fund managers, according to MFS Investment management global equity chief investment officer Kevin Beatty. The Boston-based firm, which has more than 200 institutional clients ...