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GMO head of Aussie equities departs

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 9 FEB 2010
Ric Suvak has left his role as head of Australian Equities at GMO Australia this week for undisclosed reasons - leaving more than $4 billion of funds under management to a member of the group's domestic equities team. Geoff Wells, who was previously ...

Fidelity, Edinburgh and Sarasin win mandates

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 5 NOV 2009
... term for our members," said Hicks. The appointments bring the total number of international equities managers to eight, with GMO, Lazard, Genesis Investment Management, Newton Investment Management and State Street Global Advisors already on the rost ...

GMO and Lazard win combined $1.4bn in mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 13 OCT 2009
Ipac has appointed $700 million mandates with GMO and Lazard as part of its Australian equities portfolio overhaul. Multi-manager ipac is rehashing its $4 billion Australian equities portfolio with new 'tailored mandates' that allow active managers ...

Super funds should own fund managers: Gray

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 28 SEP 2009
... slash agency costs and remove excessive choice, said industry veteran, Jack Gray. Gray, former co-head of asset allocation at GMO and current adjunct professor at UTS, argues that one of the ways funds could cut cost and manage the headache of too much ...

Industry awards top hedge funds in 2009

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 18 SEP 2009
... Supporting Australian Managers - Sunsuper Best Fund of Funds Winner FRM Sigma Fund PCC Limited - Class A Finalist AWJ Fund Finalist GMO Multi-Strategy Composite

Maritime awards $155m to equities managers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... and approximately $50 million to Ironbridge as initial investment allocations. The fund dropped its investment mandate to GMO's Emerging Markets product. Robertson said the review found the fund was overweight to emerging markets so it cut the GMO mandate ...

Brookvine promotes Gray

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 28 JAN 2009
Former GMO co-head of asset allocation, Jack Gray has been promoted to the Brookvine board as director. Alternative investment and fund raising specialist, Brookvine hired Gray in a special advisory role in April last year. This announcement follows ...

Innovators, imitators and idiots

ALEX DUNNIN  |  MONDAY, 24 NOV 2008
... write-downs as higher as 15 per cent due to the post-June market shakedown, they reported. Barron's said Jeremy Grantham, head of GMO, is now more concerned about the Yale wannabes than he is about properly resourced players such as Yale. "It's obvious ...

GMO eyes US and global equities

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 3 NOV 2008
GMO's investment sage Jeremy Grantham, one of the few who predicted the sub-prime bust, now says the the equities markets is throwing up valuations not seen in 20 years. Grantham believes that a very weak global economy is not without partially offsetting ...

GMO opens EM portfolio to new frontiers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 SEP 2008
Global investment management firm GMO is broadening its emerging market portfolio to include frontier economies such as Nigeria, Vietnam and the Gulf States. Marco Vangelisti, GMO emerging markets portfolio manager, said the firm is looking to allocate ...