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FSS and Health Super merger on track

ALISON BEVEGE  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
... fund and pension fund, including the Money Magazine Best of the Best award and the Rainmaker SelectingSuper Retirement Fund of the Year - Value Choice. Dwyer also said the merger would provide opportunity scale to help it expand its services. The fund ...

Wingate profits from Everest stake

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 23 MAR 2011
Fund manager Wingate Direct Investments has sold its 19.9 per cent investment in Everest Financial Group after receiving an anonymous bid for its stake, gaining 32 per cent on its original investment. The investment manager offloaded its stake in Everest ...

Franklin Global Growth gets three-star rating

ALISON BEVEGE  |  MONDAY, 21 MAR 2011
Franklin Global Growth has now been rated by Standard & Poor's, completing the analyst firm's review of the International Equities Large Cap - Concentrated peer group. Franklin Global Growth was given three stars in its debut grading by the ratings ...

Converging techniques give investors more options

ALEX DUNNIN  |  TUESDAY, 8 MAR 2011
... product specialist at Amundi Asset Management when visiting Australia last week. Pushing this has been a loss of faith in fund of hedge fund products, particular by pension funds. It has resulted in them going direct to managers to assemble the products ...

FRM attracts $25m inflows

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 28 FEB 2011
Financial Risk Management (FRM), a global hedge fund of fund investment firm, launched its offshore fund FRM Sigma, investing in a globally-source portfolio of Commodity Trading Advisers (CTAs) that specialise in managed futures. A managed futures account ...

Bank blocks pension gold

MATT WOODINGTON  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... fund SPVG to reduce its investment in gold from 13 per cent of its portfolio to three per cent or less. SPVG, the pension fund of glassworks company Vereenigde Glasfabrieken, has been given two months to cut its gold allocation to between one and three ...

VIP hedge funds open doors

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... accurately predicting the meltdown in the market for subprime mortgage securities. Since inception in November '07, the fund of hedge funds has achieved an annualised return of 2.57 per cent, compared to a near 9 per cent decline in the S&P500 over the ...

SelectingSuper celebrates top 2010 funds

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
... spots across 12 categories. CareSuper won both the prestigious Long Term Performance Excellence Award and Superannuation Fund of the Year Award. The fund beat HESTA, HOST-PLUS, REST Super and Telstra Super for the Fund of the Year Award. The fund has ...

Principal boutique launches currency fund

COMPANY RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 29 OCT 2010
... Currency fund, a Dublin-registered qualifying investor fund with AUD$40 million of external seed capital. The Fund is a sub-fund of the Principal Global Opportunities Series and uses the same fundamental discretionary investment process that the Group ...

AvSuper awards hedge fund mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 OCT 2010
... return trust, while another $25 million will be poured into the Aurora Offshore II Fund - a multi manager, multi strategy fund of hedge funds. The two new managers are replacements for the fund's previous investments in London-based Duet Alternative ...