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Platinum slashes fees ahead of ETMF launch

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 28 APR 2017
... efficiencies and these new fee options give investors the benefit of such changes," Platinum said. Platinum chief executive Kerr Neilson added: "These changes will benefit clients in terms of both channel choice and price options. While benefiting clients ...

Platinum inflows boosted by increased marketing spend

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 26 FEB 2016
... resources allocated to the development and promotion of Platinum's Funds," Platinum chairman Michael Cole and director Kerr Neilson said in a joint statement. "As the Australian equities market continues to face challenges that are mostly linked to the ...

Asia: Between fortune and fate

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 26 AUG 2015
... of competing regional interests and religious interests, it takes a lot of time." Platinum chief executive officer Kerr Neilson has been vocal about investment opportunities in India. Platinum's Asia Fund has a 15% allocation to India and two of its ...

Below benchmark performance hurts Platinum

LAURA MILLAN  |  FRIDAY, 21 AUG 2015
... 'absolute' performance fee mandates also suffered from performance. In a letter included in the results, managing director Kerr Neilson expressed "surprise" at investors' "seeming unwillingness to lay off their exposure and have more investment in assets ...

NZ looks to Trowbridge for life reforms

ALEX BURKE  |  TUESDAY, 28 JUL 2015
... protection insurance advice and make subsequent recommendations. According to New Zealand's FSC chief executive Peter Neilson, the report is targeted at reducing instances of insurance "policy churn". It will make recommendations in response to New Zealand's ...

Australian alternatives assets top $250 billion

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 14 JUL 2015
... billion at the end of 2013 to $92 billion at the end of last year. Platinum Asset Management, led by local star manager Kerr Neilson, was listed as the 19th largest hedge fund manager by pension fund assets under management. The survey shows that the ...

PROFILE: PM Capital CIO Paul Moore

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... making opportunity helping to run the newly launched Select Markets International Trusts alongside the now legendary Kerr Neilson. "Kerr asked me if I would come and help him. It was just the two of us with responsibility for four funds. There's no way ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... be considered. Pricing is probably even more important, according to Platinum Asset Management managing director Kerr Neilson. Speaking at a Morningstar SMSF conference, he revealed his motto: "question your biases, look for opportunities where others ...

FEATURE: How boutiques got their groove back

STAFF WRITER  |  WEDNESDAY, 15 APR 2015
Hamish Douglass, Roger Montgomery, Kerr Neilson, David Paradice, Tim Samway, John Sevior, Anton Tagliaferro, Geoff Wilson. These are some of the leading lights in the local investment market. What they all have in common is finding huge amounts of success ...

Former Platinum deputy CIO sets up new boutique

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 MAR 2015
... global equity boutique called Antipodes Global Investment Partners, three months after resigning from star manager Kerr Neilson's firm. Mitchell and his team will manage concentrated long only and long-short global and Asian equity portfolios. The new ...