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Treasury Asia wins $61.9m Skandia mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 JUN 2008
Skandia Investment Group (SIG) has awarded a $61.9 million Asian mandate for its Global Best Ideas fund to Treasury Asia Asset Management. Treasury Asia Asset Management is a boutique investment manager specialising in active investment management in ...

ABN Amro Asset Mgmt to join Fortis

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 27 MAY 2008
ABN AMRO Asset Management (Australia) has severed ties with ABN AMRO Group and will merge with global fund manager Fortis Investments. The new group will boast 40 investment centres, 600 investment professionals and 2,300 staff in more than 30 countries ...

Co-investing gains momentum

... co-investing with them in their private equity deals. Meanwhile, multi-manager giant QIC also looks to co-investing with global fund managers for their infrastructure portfolio. Frontier's investment consultant Chris Trevillyan, who specialises in infrastructure ...

Brookvine and ipac back Prisma

... by alternatives consultant Brookvine. Up until last month, Ipac invested the sums with BT Grosvenor Master Fund, a global fund of hedge funds, through the BT Global Return Fund. However, it decided to use those funds to seed Prisma Global Multi-Strategy. ...

Invesco hires ex-JANA exec to lead Aus eq quant

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 8 APR 2008
The Australian arm of global fund manager Invesco has launched a new Australian equity capability and recruited a former JANA consultant to lead the team. The equity capability is specially tailored for the Australian market and was developed over the ...

Magellan Global mirrors Berkshire strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 27 MAR 2008
Research firm Lonsec has rated Magellan Financial Group's (MFG) Global Fund 'recommended' and noted it adopts a similar investment style synonymous to that of the sage of Omaha. Launched in July last year, the Magellan Global Fund equities portfolio ...

RREEF offloads half stake in DEXUS

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 22 FEB 2008
... develop a platform to source Australian infrastructure, real estate and private equity assets for our regional and global fund and continue our strategic relationship with DEXUS Property Group." RREEF Alternative Investments manages $99.2 billion in ...

Toolsets by managers, for managers

ALEX DUNNIN  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 FEB 2008
Global fund management software provider, Impact Investing, builds a strong case on how fund managers can improve their returns and showcase their investment process much easier to prospective investors. Enda Mahoney, the group's new managing director ...

ING IM and Credit Agricole win $1.1b Philippine mandate

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 5 FEB 2008
ING Investment Management (ING IM) and Credit Agricole Asset Management (Singapore) beat 36 global fund managers and custodians to manage the Philippine Government Service Insurance System's $1.1 billion global asset mandate. The Government Service ...

Dewhurst to head Legg Mason's global expansion

... profitable growth for Legg Mason," said Mark Fetting, the group's global president and chief executive. Legg Mason is a global fund manager with approximately $1.1 trillion in funds under management as of December 31. Michelle Baltazar