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Pengana fund manager departs

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  FRIDAY, 20 JAN 2012
The Pengana Asian Equities fund has been downgraded by Standard & Poor's in the wake of fund manager Elan Miller's departure from the team before Christmas. Miller has been replaced in his role as technical analyst for the strategy by new recruit ...

Bennelong awarded 'recommended' rating by Lonsec.

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 24 NOV 2011
... with an Excess Return of 1.9% (versus a peer average of 0.3%)," said the Lonsec report. The Bennelong Australian Equities Fund is managed by Bennelong Australian Equity Partners (BAEP), and is headed up by Paul Cuddy and Mark East. According to Lonsec ...

MLC MasterKey fees cut, new features

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 15 NOV 2011
... MLC Wholesale Australian Share Index Fund, Fairview Equity Partners Emerging Companies Fund and the Pengana Asian Equities fund. Effective from February 1 next year, a new pricing structure will see clients with account balances up to $200,000 paying ...

Franklin Templeton launches Australian equity fund

RACHEL DAVIS  |  MONDAY, 7 NOV 2011
... Australian equities manager Balanced Equity Management in July of this year, the firm has launched an Australian equities fund for both retail and institutional investors. The new fund aims to outperform the S&P/ASX 100 Accumulation Index over the medium ...

van Eyk adds UBS-HALO to the Blueprint Australian Shares Fund

CLAIRE MCGREAL  |  THURSDAY, 3 NOV 2011
... manager for the core UBS Australian equities strategy The van Eyk Blueprint fund also recently added the Sigma Select Equities Fund and the Macquarie High Conviction Fund, both concentrated, high conviction strategies. The van Eyk Blueprint Series is ...

Islamic fund opens doors to Australian investors

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 6 OCT 2011
... new 'ultra ethical' fund, investing on Islamic principles with the launch of Crescent Wealth and its Australian equities fund, the first of a series of products it plans to bring to market. The Crescent Australian Equity fund begins life today with $5.5 ...

Clime gains three-star rating for Aus equities fund

ALISON BEVEGE  |  FRIDAY, 19 AUG 2011
... radar for financial advisers for the first time. Darren Katz, head of distribution at Clime, said the Australian equities fund had returned 12.90% on an annualised basis over the past three years, compared with the All Ordinaries Accumulation Index which ...

Fund managers beat the index but only just

ALISON BEVEGE  |  TUESDAY, 16 AUG 2011
... return-on-equity. Over a five-year term, managers performed better, improving on the index by 2.1%, with the median Australian equities fund returning 3.0% compared with 1.9% for the S&P/ASX 300 Index. In the long-only category, concentrated Australian ...

ORBIS launches cash based fund

RACHEL DAVIS  |  TUESDAY, 26 JUL 2011
Orbis Australia has launched a retail cash plus equities fund, the Orbis/SM Australia Opportunity Fund. The new Fund is the second one Orbis has launched in Australia since the launch of the Orbis/SM Australian Equity Fund in 2004. The Orbis/SM Australia ...

Perpetual downgraded as FUM redistributed

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 25 JUL 2011
... now being managed by Sevior's successor Paul Skamvougeras, portfolio manager of Perpetual's long/short Australian-equities fund. S&P accepted that Sevior may return in January next year, but as it was uncertain it had to downgrade the fund. "Although ...