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Morningstar awards top fund managers

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 2 MAR 2009
In a year where only the fittest survived, seven fund managers including Schroders, Vanguard and Platinum proved they're on top of their game. Schroders took the top award, Morningstar Fund Manager of the Year 2008, in the annual awards event held in ...

Fundies use proxy voting

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 15 JUL 2008
US fund managers drive better governance in the companies they invest in by using proxy votes to block board decisions that are not in the shareholder's best interest, a study found. The Investment Company Institute (ICI) analysed more than 3.5 million ...

International value funds back in vogue

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 6 FEB 2008
... panic wafting from the recent credit market turbulence has the funds gearing for a major comeback - with several US fund managers eyeing the Australian market. US investment companies Tweedy, Browne, and Third Avenue Management announced the reawakening ...

Fund managers still favour international shares

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  THURSDAY, 29 MAR 2007
... selected 'decreasing commodity prices' and 45 per cent selected 'interest rate increases'. This contrasted with US fund managers, who cited increasing inflation and geopolitical instability as their top concerns.

Daily economic round-up

PETER BELL  |  THURSDAY, 5 OCT 2006
... attractive. The Dow has a market capitalization of about $4 trillion whereas the S&P 500 Index which most of the larger US fund managers use to benchmark their portfolios has a market cap of about $12 trillion is about 12 per cent away from the high ...

Manage the property, don't chase the sector: Centro

... the overall investment risked not being Australian-compliant, tax effective or otherwise. "You might have, say, US fund managers providing offers to our investors here. But do they hedge it properly? Do they deal with withholding tax issues properly? ...

Follow the golden BRIC road: S&P

... at capturing the strong investment growth in those economies. Australia could soon add to the list of UK and US fund managers who are joining the BRIC bandwagon. AllianceBernstein, Schroders and Fidelity are just a few of the major global fund managers ...

All REST and no play with $580m new mandate

Industry fund REST starts the year on full throttle after awarding $580m of new money to a string of investment managers, of which a total $480 million will go towards international equities mandates. REST joins a growing list of super funds that have ...

Active US fund managers underperform

The majority of active US fund managers have underperformed the major US sharemarket indices for the six months-ending 30 June 2004, ratings agency and benchmark operator Standard & Poor's said in a report. According to S&P, the S&P-500 index outperformed ...
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