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Aberdeen strategy team changes

ELISE BURGESS  |  THURSDAY, 19 JAN 2012
... the multi-asset capability to the market as chair of several committees including the Australian tactical asset allocation (TAA) committee, taking over from Anthony Michael. Prior to the new role, Elston was an equities strategist for Aberdeen in Singapore ...

Fund managers eye 'cheap' Japan

MATT WOODINGTON  |  THURSDAY, 10 MAR 2011
Attractive valuations, a predicted rise in industrial consolidation and the possibility of a depreciating currency are leading some fund managers to believe that the time is now to invest in Japan. In contrast to the rest of Asia, the Bank of Japan ...

TAAM adds to investment team

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 1 NOV 2010
Senior investment analyst Kenneth Wan will be joining the investment team of Treasury Asia Asset Management (TAAM), the boutique manager announced this morning. Wan brings ten years funds management experience in both Australian and Asian equities to ...

TAAM attracts top Asia guns

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 21 SEP 2010
Boutique fund manager Treasury Asia Asset Management has appointed leading contrarian investor Marc Faber and one of Singapore's most successful fund managers, Teng Ngiek-Lian, to its investment advisory board. Faber, author of "The Gloom Boom & Doom ...

World-class Aussie funds reach Europe through UCITS

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 22 JUN 2010
European Union laws that come into effect next year will allow Australian fund managers to invest funds for overseas investors with less admin headaches. It's the new world breaking into the old world. Australian fund managers, many of whom could trace ...

Boutique incubators target retail market

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 1 FEB 2010
Boutique incubators, Ascalon Capital Managers and Treasury Group, are ramping up their retail distribution strategy to broaden their fund managers' funds under management (FUM). Mark Burgess, managing director at Treasury Group, said the firm had spent ...

TAAM to add two more clients

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 JAN 2010
Treasury Asia Asset Management (TAAM) is close to signing two more clients before the end of the first quarter. Peter Sartori, chief investment officer at TAAM, said the fund manager has the capacity to take on board some more funds from pension and ...

Aberdeen fund gets S&P three stars

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 16 DEC 2009
... Fund Services analyst Sheela Veerappan. Aberdeen has indicated that it does not intend to rely on tactical asset allocation (TAA) as a significant source of active return, but rather, will focus on constructing a portfolio that can deliver a sustainable ...

Instos move on Treasury stocks

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  FRIDAY, 11 DEC 2009
Perpetual and Telstra Super have each bought more than one million ordinary shares in Treasury Group, which means both groups hold a five per cent voting share in the boutique incubator. Both groups bought more than 1.1 million of ordinary shares in ...

Danger signs ahead but bargain stocks a-plenty: Faber

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 6 AUG 2009
Leading contrarian investor Dr. Marc Faber wears his "ultra bearish" cap in his Australian visit, predicting another financial crisis could happen in the next five to 10 years - but even that doesn't mean there aren't any investment opportunities, particularly ...