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Tyndall finds value

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 18 SEP 2008
... star rating from Standard & Poor's. The ratings house awarded Tyndall its highest accolade reflecting its "very high conviction that the manager will consistently generate risk-adjusted returns in excess of both [Tyndall's] relevant investment objectives ...

Where to in global equities?

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 16 SEP 2008
... BlackRock's Global Equity team is in Australia this week to talk to the local industry about the group's global "high conviction" fund. He said BlackRock's global equities portfolios have been significantly underweight in financials for more than two ...

AMP core property is a 5-star

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 12 SEP 2008
... operates under a strong risk-management framework," according to the report. "The fund's rating reflects our very high conviction in this fund's ability to deliver risk-adjusted returns relative to peers. [It] also reflects our confidence in AMP Capital ...

Perennial's global alpha secret

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 SEP 2008
... markets and still there at 7pm to talk to Perennial's London-based analyst. But the reward to that is the fund's high conviction portfolio of around 40 to 50 stocks handpicked from around the world. "As we've said in our fund material before, we think ...

Planners demand global fund with conviction

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 SEP 2008
... extending its relationship with US based Tradewinds Global Investors to provide retail investors' with access to a high conviction global equities fund. The Advance Tradewinds Global Equities fund's strategy aims to identify undervalued companies and ...

Bellwether secures debut mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 17 JUL 2008
... the mandate "a significant vote of confidence" in Bellwether's investment approach. He attributed the success in high conviction portfolios to discipline and an ability to filter market noise - a strategy Bellwether implements via quantitative and qualitative ...

Back testing not enough

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 11 JUL 2008
... differences in the market, and to "really let them loose". "We encourage our managers to run quite unconstrained, high conviction portfolios. We want managers to own stocks they really like, rather than own stocks purely because they represent a significant ...

Ascalon buys 50pc stake in Sigrun

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
... continues its strategy to buy strong financial services firms, after purchasing a 50 per cent equity stake in high conviction investment manager, Sigrun Asset Management. Sigrun is a quant manager that uses behavioural finance and traditional valuation ...

FTI Aus unveils global equity fund

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
... number of market trends including the focus on risk adjusted excess returns and demand for absolute return and high conviction strategies," she said. The research-driven portfolio holds 45 stocks that have limited overlap of economic exposures, seeking ...

Northward banks on top stocks

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 5 JUN 2008
... "There's a lot of discipline behind the positioning and selecting of stock in our portfolio," said Brooks. "We have a high conviction portfolio of around 40, 45 stocks that has been built on the fundamental research the team's been doing in terms of ...