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MFS executives create advisory council

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 19 APR 2018
MFS Investment Management has pooled five of its top executives and a retired portfolio manager to form an advisory council that will consult and collaborate with the firm's investment team. The MFS Investment Advisory Council (IAC) will counsel current ...

Financial Standard names Investment Leadership Award winners

KARREN VERGARA  |  FRIDAY, 15 DEC 2017
... Management RARE Infrastructure Yarra Capital Management International equities - asset class Active core - sector MFS Investment Management (Winner) BlackRock Investment Management Magellan Asset Management Legg Mason QS Investors Schroder Investment ...

Active management culture shifts boardroom discussion

DARREN SNYDER  |  THURSDAY, 7 SEP 2017
... with asset owners. During a trip to Melbourne, Sydney and Auckland recently to speak to institutional clients, MFS Investment co-head of global distribution Carol Geremia said the active management industry has become so big and complex that asset owners ...

Reflation narrative lacks substance: MFS

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 29 JUN 2017
... economy is tilting back towards higher interest rates ignores persistent macroeconomic headwinds, according to MFS Investment Management chief investment officer, global fixed income Bill Adams. Speaking to Financial Standard, Adams said that he was ...

ASIC cancels AFSL, bans former executives and fund managers

JAMIE WILLIAMSON  |  TUESDAY, 30 MAY 2017
... in the Supreme Court of Queensland, with the court disqualifying four former executives and the fund managers of MFS Investment Management from managing corporations. In May 2016, the court found that former chief executive Michael Christodoulou King ...

MFSIM execs use $143.5m in client money to repay debts

KERRIE SYDEE  |  TUESDAY, 24 MAY 2016
Five former executives of MFS Investment Management (MFSIM), now known as ACN, have been found liable for breaching their directors' and officers' duties by the Supreme Court of Queensland. The MFS Group, subsequantly known as Octaviar, collapsed in ...

Don't overlook culture and discipline: MFS

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 7 MAY 2015
... to soft-close funds before they are hurt by their size are too often overlooked by fund managers, according to MFS Investment management global equity chief investment officer Kevin Beatty. The Boston-based firm, which has more than 200 institutional ...

Double digit growth for large fund managers

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 17 JUN 2014
... 28.7% over the past year to now claim 54.6% of the overall wholesale market. State Street Global Advisors (up 34%), MFS Investment Management (30.9%), National Australia Bank / MLC (24.5%), Commonwealth / Colonial (21.6%), Challenger (20.1%), Franklin ...

Dynamic approach key to low volatility investing

MARK SMITH  |  WEDNESDAY, 4 JUN 2014
... construction research Nick White, Enhanced Institute of Technologies chief executive and CIO Adrian Banner and MFS Investment Management institutional portfolio manager Dino Davis warned that low volatility investing is not as easy as simply investing ...

Asset allocation shifts as EM turns strategic: MFS

ALICE URIBE  |  MONDAY, 25 MAR 2013
... play, according to a visiting global portfolio manager. Thomas Melendez, Institutional Equity Portfolio Manager - MFS Investment Management told the Financial Standard that there is a growing appetite for emerging market investments from the Australian ...