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Goldman Sachs retains 'highly recommended" rating

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... also take charge of the multi-sector Income Plus and the Diversified Growth funds. Meanwhile, Standard & Poor's Fund Services have placed another Goldman Sachs fund, the Income Plus Fund, 'On Hold' pending a review following the management change. "S&P ...

AMP Cap Equity Fund analyst departs, prompts 'sell'

JOHN MCDULING  |  FRIDAY, 13 AUG 2010
... Fitzgerald will continue his duties with the fund manager during reporting season. Following the departure, S&P Fund Services placed a "sell" rating on the fund, citing the fund manager's "ongoing struggle to retain staff." S&P Fund Services had placed ...

UBS property fund gets three stars

S&P RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 9 AUG 2010
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has assigned its three-star 'new' rating to the UBS Property Securities Fund. The ratings house placed the fund 'On Hold' in October 2009 when its co-portfolio managers resigned and management was transitioned to the ...

MLC drops Challenger for Resolution

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 6 AUG 2010
... de Vos and Marco Colantonio both portfolio managers of the global property securities strategy. Standard & Poor's Fund Services said the move did not affect the ratings on the MLC Investments AREITS. "S&P is also comfortable with the slight increase ...

ING Aussie eq fund gets three stars

MEDIA RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 2 AUG 2010
Standard & Poor's Fund Services assigns a three-star rating to the newly-launched ING Alpha Plus Australian Equity Fund. The fund is a long-only active manager that uses fundamental stock selection to construct a high-conviction portfolio. "Though the ...

Bennelong appoints Intech head as chair

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 30 JUL 2010
Bennelong Funds Management has appointed former Intech head of fund services, Bruce Loveday, as chairman of the board, starting next month. Loveday was previously head of fund services and head of sales and marketing with Intech Financial Services ...

BTIM hires new portfolio manager, Swift departs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUL 2010
... no longer works at the fund manager. As a result of Swift's departure and Wild's appointment, Standard & Poor's Fund Services placed the BT Wholesale Active Balanced, Wholesale Balanced Returns and Wholesale Future Goals 'on hold'. All three funds were ...

INGIM global emerging markets fund under new team

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 21 JUL 2010
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has placed the ING Global Emerging Markets fund 'on hold' after the fund manager created an internal boutique to manage the funds. Previously a small investment team managed ING Investment Management's (INGIM) global ...

Pengana gains 'three stars' rating

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 16 JUL 2010
... last year after working at the Rand Merchant Bank in Australia and South Africa. Sheela Veerappan, analyst at S&P Fund Services, said the fund is not suitable for all investors and may appeal to high net worth section of the market. "The has a strong ...

Coding error review prompts sell rating

MEDIA RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
Standard & Poor's Fund Services has rated the AXA Wholesale Global Equity - Core fund as a "sell" after the final review from AXA Rosenberg about the mishandling of a coding error, which ultimately led to the group founder's resignation and demotion ...