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Australian alternatives assets top $250 billion

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... billion at the end of 2013 to $92 billion at the end of last year. Platinum Asset Management, led by local star manager Kerr Neilson, was listed as the 19th largest hedge fund manager by pension fund assets under management. The survey shows that the ...

PROFILE: PM Capital CIO Paul Moore

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... making opportunity helping to run the newly launched Select Markets International Trusts alongside the now legendary Kerr Neilson. "Kerr asked me if I would come and help him. It was just the two of us with responsibility for four funds. There's no way ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... be considered. Pricing is probably even more important, according to Platinum Asset Management managing director Kerr Neilson. Speaking at a Morningstar SMSF conference, he revealed his motto: "question your biases, look for opportunities where others ...

FEATURE: How boutiques got their groove back

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Hamish Douglass, Roger Montgomery, Kerr Neilson, David Paradice, Tim Samway, John Sevior, Anton Tagliaferro, Geoff Wilson. These are some of the leading lights in the local investment market. What they all have in common is finding huge amounts of success ...

Former Platinum deputy CIO sets up new boutique

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... global equity boutique called Antipodes Global Investment Partners, three months after resigning from star manager Kerr Neilson's firm. Mitchell and his team will manage concentrated long only and long-short global and Asian equity portfolios. The new ...

Platinum backs US internet stocks and Asian infrastructure

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 14 JAN 2015
Star manager Kerr Neilson's listed investment company Platinum Capital is backing out-of-favour big-name US technology companies as well as infrastructure plays in China and India. In a quarterly update to shareholders the billionaire investor said ...

Platinum reshuffles management after deputy CIO departure

ALICE URIBE  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 NOV 2014
... Standard that Mitchell was not going to another fund manager but was instead "taking some time off." Managing director Kerr Neilson currently has 70% responsibility for the Platinum International Fund while chief investment officer Andrew Clifford and ...

Platinum steps up focus on adviser market

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 1 JUL 2014
... Adelaide in November. In an interview with Financial Standard in April, Platinum co-founder and managing director Kerr Neilson signaled his ambitions to widen the reach of the firm's top-performing international shares strategy within the adviser market. ...

Financial services stars named in rich list

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 27 JUN 2014
... been named in BRW's latest rebalancing of its annual rich list. In tenth place, Platinum Asset Management co-founder Kerr Neilson was the highest placed financial services executive with an estimated $3.35 billion fortune. The strong performance of global ...

Advisers, do not read headlines: Kerr Neilson

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 6 JUN 2014
... ignore headlines and look at the numbers when making investment decisions, Platinum Asset Management managing director Kerr Neilson told advisers at a Sydney roadshow. "Ignore the headlines, they will not help you very much at all," Neilson said. Speaking ...