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Fundies turn to outsourcing to curb costs: report

MATT WOODINGTON  |  FRIDAY, 11 FEB 2011
Three in four fund managers are protecting their businesses from the pain of more modest global sharemarket growth and downward pressures on investment fees by outsourcing their non-core activities, a report found. This month RBC Dexia and Accenture ...

Fundies face tough ASIC scrutiny

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 NOV 2010
ASIC released a new consultation paper yesterday seeking industry feedback on whether fund managers should be subject to the same rules that regulate stockbrokers when trading in share markets. This could see fund managers face tougher penalties if ...

Temasek seeks Asian equities fundies

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 9 JUL 2010
Local Asian equities fund managers looking to win mandates should pay the $150 billion Temasek Holdings another visit, after the sovereign fund flagged plans to boost its Asian portfolios, according to its annual performance report released yesterday. ...

Fundies caught in $5m heist

SFC RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 4 MAY 2010
Hong Kong's regulator moves to ban New York-based Tiger Asia Management from dealing shares in the country ever again after it caught the fund's directors guilty of insider trading - twice. Last August, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) applied ...

Diversa appoints ex-Souls fundie

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 APR 2010
Superannuation administrator Diversa has appointed Souls Funds Management co-founder Vincent Parrott as head of funds management for the Diversa Group. Parrott worked in leadership roles within the institutional funds management sector for AMP, SBC ...

Fundie backs strategy with own nest egg

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 22 MAR 2010
The Australian fund manager behind one of T. Rowe Price's global equities strategy gives 'skin in the game' serious meaning when he poured all of his retirement savings into it. His parents are putting some money, too. Scott Berg, the Canberra-born ...

Fundies struggle to manage costs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 1 OCT 2009
A global investment manager survey has found more than 41 per cent of businesses are operating in the red and around three quarters have no cost reduction strategy. The survey found 41 per cent of the global investment manager industry is operating ...

Fundies split on Hatoyama effect

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
Fund managers specialising in Japanese stocks are divided on how the new government will affect their investments and the local economy, according to the Association of Investment Companies (AIC). The UK-based AIC canvassed the opinion of Japan equities ...

Fundies and analysts target IT sector

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 19 AUG 2009
Locally listed IT firms are catching the eye of stock analysts and high conviction fund managers as technology-related goods and services move from being a discretionary spend to a "must have" for today's consumers and businesses. Elio D'Amato, chief ...

UK pension and fundies to drive long-termism

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
UK pension funds and fund managers risk falling foul of their regulators if they don't "mandate" the companies they invest in to focus on long-term shareholder value, according to the Walker Review. The review, an independent audit of corporate governance ...