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Copia boutique wins micro-cap mandate

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 17 FEB 2017
... mandate. OC Funds Management, founded in 2000 by head of investments Robert Frost, will manage a micro-cap portfolio for Contango MicroCap. Contango said OCFM was selected after an "extensive process involving an independent consultant who conducted ...

Top 10 investment stories in 2016

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 22 DEC 2016
... million of investor money will be invested in a series of property construction proposals and micro-finance businesses. 10. Contango sells funds management business for $13m In June Contango MicroCap announced it had sold its funds management subsidiary. ...

Contango continues to grow investment team

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  THURSDAY, 15 SEP 2016
Contango Asset Management has bolstered its investment team with the appointment of two new associate analysts. Xia Wu and Eric Tan joined the Melbourne firm last month, marking another stride in its growth strategy. Wu holds a Masters in Finance from ...

Contango appoints new director

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 2 AUG 2016
Contango MicroCap has appointed a new director. Alistair Drummond joins the Contango board having been a senior portfolio manager at Contango Asset Management since 2015. This was his second stint on Contango Asset Management's investment team; he was ...

Aussie investors list operational alpha among top priorities

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 11 JUL 2016
... people in places like New York and Chicago." Ioannou added the firm is positioned in those types of scenarios and cited Contango's recent partnership with Bloomberg AIM and other products as an example. He said now that global investors have lived through ...

Contango sells funds management business for $13m

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 24 JUN 2016
Contango MicroCap has sold its funds management subsidiary. From June 30, the new owner of Contango Asset Management (CAM) will be CAM SPV, an entity created by members of the funds management business's investment team, including CAM chief investment ...

Pessimistic investment horizon for super

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 3 DEC 2015
... session on investment at the Association of Superannuation Funds of Australia (ASFA) conference in Brisbane recently. Contango Asset Management investment services director and Guardian of the Future Fund, Carol Austin, told the session that the next ...

Contango appoints analysts to capitalise on growing markets

DARREN SNYDER  |  MONDAY, 13 APR 2015
... chief investment officer George Boubouras, who said the addition followed strong performance across the various Contango funds for the March quarter. Scott was recently head of research at Ord Minnett and was the senior portfolio manager for Deutsche ...

Investors warned on VIX futures

MELANIE TIMBRELL  |  MONDAY, 24 SEP 2012
... long position in short-term VIX futures lost over 95% of its value in three years, largely as a result of the constant contango effect. "Everybody has volatility exposure," said StA(C)phane Mauppin-Higashino, head of investment specialists - Equity Strategies ...

Future Fund chair back for a year, two new board members

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... appointments to the Future Fund's management, Goldman Sachs Australia managing director Stephen Fitzgerald will join Contango Asset Management investment services director Carol Austin on the board. The pair will replace Trevor Rowe and Jeffrey Browne ...