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First Aussie fixed income mandate for global manager

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... multi-manager suite. Vontobel Asset Management will run an emerging markets debt mandate and a global equities mandate for Alpha Fund Managers, the funds management subsidiary of Infocus Wealth Management. Vontobel Asset Management executive director ...

Former SMSF Association chief joins CEFC board

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 8 JAN 2018
... worked in senior roles at Envestra (now part of Australian Gas Infrastructure Group). Reed is also currently chair of ERIC Alpha Holdings and Epic Energy Group. Her other current board positions include: Ausgrid, Canadian Utilities and ATCO Australia. ...

2018 Financial Standard Investment Leadership Awards

JOHN DYALL  |  FRIDAY, 22 DEC 2017
... growth, value or some other factor. But it is no longer possible to dress up beta as an investment manager's skill and call it alpha at a time when investment product innovation is resulting in smart beta products being available for around half the ...

Janus Henderson wins global mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 DEC 2017
Janus Henderson has won a global fixed interest mandate. Alpha Fund Managers appointed the actively managed Janus Henderson Global Fixed Interest Total Return Fund to its growing list of multi-managed funds. Janus Henderson manages more than $101 billion ...

Alpha Fund Managers awards income mandate

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  MONDAY, 18 DEC 2017
Alpha Fund Managers has awarded a mandate to a specialist credit investment manager. Blue Quay will join the lineup of Alpha's Diversified Income Fund portfolio. Now in its fifth year, the Blue Quay High Income Fund from Blue Quay Investment Management ...

T. Rowe Price expands local distribution team

EMMA RAPAPORT  |  THURSDAY, 14 DEC 2017
... driving renewed investor demand for fundamental, research led investment approaches that discriminate in their search for alpha and wealth preservation. "We have seen strong interest across the vast majority of equity and fixed income portfolios from ...

Magellan research head departs following restructure

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
Magellan's head of research, Nikki Thomas, has left the company after 10 years following a restructure of the investment team. Thomas was promoted to the head of research role in 2014, having been a portfolio manager since 2011. She joined Magellan ...

Parametric appoints product manager from Willis Towers Watson

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 11 DEC 2017
... for the firm's "after-tax and implementation efficiency philosophy." Briant said that super funds "understand that manager alpha is inherently uncertain, but fees, taxes and transaction costs are certain, and these are sensible things to manage. A natural ...

Fixed income specialist wins mandate

KARREN VERGARA  |  THURSDAY, 7 DEC 2017
Alpha Fund Managers has awarded a mandate to a specialist equity and fixed income boutique investment manager. Premium China Funds Management's Premium Asia Income Fund was selected for its ability to manage emerging market debt sector exposure and ...

Fund managers should have personal stake: Poll

KARREN VERGARA  |  MONDAY, 27 NOV 2017
Fund managers should 'put their money where their mouth is' and have a personal stake in the funds they manage, Financial Standard's weekly poll results show. About 80% of respondents either agree or strongly believe this statement, indicating portfolio ...