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Australian equities need more PR

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 27 APR 2009
... Australian companies are run for Australian investors primarily and I am not sure if that is going to change," said a US growth fund investor who participated in the survey. The survey found that roadshows are still the most effective way for Australian ...

S&P puts 12 CFS funds 'on hold'

ALEX DUNNIN  |  FRIDAY, 17 APR 2009
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has placed 12 Colonial First State's (CFS) small-cap growth funds 'On Hold'. The dramatic move follows the announcement that the small-caps lead portfolio manager Raaz Bhuyan is transferring across to the CFS's large-cap ...

Principal Global Investors wins $160m mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 15 JAN 2009
... to increase its weighting to emerging markets. This appointment follows the launch of the Principal Global Equity Growth Fund and the Principal Emerging Markets Equity Fund in January 2008. PGI is a diversified asset management organisation with investment ...

Zenith ranks Martin Currie and Franklin Templeton

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 27 NOV 2008
... Franklin Templeton to its recommended list. Zenith has tagged the Martin Currie Global Alpha Fund and the Franklin Global Growth Fund as highly recommended and recommended respectively. As a result, the ratings agency has added both products to the group's ...

Opus Capital banks on sustainable property

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 17 NOV 2008
... During the year, Opus bought around $311 million worth of property for its Opus Capital & Income Fund No. 21, Capital Growth Fund 1 and Development Fund 2. Company chairman Tony Moody said five of the properties were acquired under the company's 'pre-purchase' ...

Retail fund fights back

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 28 OCT 2008
... (APRA) and internal data showed industry funds had outperformed the average retail fund, but the Colonial FirstChoice - Growth fund actually tracked close to the industry fund average. APRA figures from 2006 showed the retail weighted average expense ...

Cuffe fund outperforms index by 13.8 pc

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
... can claim that they are performing well amidst today's gloomy investment environment - but Chris Cuffe's Third Link Growth Fund managed to stay ahead of the index since its inception this year. The fund, which still posted a loss, has outperformed the ...

Fees cause underperformance, not asset allocation: APRA

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 16 OCT 2008
The latest research paper from APRA confirms that fees are the major difference in net returns between retail and not-for-profit super funds, not asset allocation or differences in account balances. The paper, Investment Performance, Asset Allocation ...

Pax fined for SRI breach

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 25 AUG 2008
... conduc as opposed to intentional wrongdoing. Heads rolled after SEC filed the charges with the fund managers of the Growth Fund and the High Yield Bond Fund, the head of the Social Research department, Pax World's outside counsel and the chief compliance ...

AMP Cap hires Asian stock specialist

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 12 AUG 2008
... analyst. In this role, Sivanesarajah will work in the Asian equities team which manages the listed AMP Capital China Growth fund, a fund which posted a -28.1 per cent change in net asset value over a one year period to July. Yet, since its December 2006 ...