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AB wins industry fund mandate

DARREN SNYDER  |  TUESDAY, 8 DEC 2015
... billion super fund, Craig Stevens, said AustSafe can improve the management of its equity portfolio without diluting conviction in underlying investment managers or reducing the return sources it wishes to target. AB Australia chief executive officer ...

IOOF awards small cap mandate

MARK SMITH  |  THURSDAY, 19 NOV 2015
... years (to 31 October), outperforming the S&P/ASX Small Ords Acc Index by 14.86% per annum. "We like Aberdeen's high conviction approach to managing equities," Matthew Drennan, group head of research and portfolio construction for the IOOF group, said. ...

Lazard funds rated by Lonsec

MARK SMITH  |  MONDAY, 16 NOV 2015
... independent research house Lonsec, following a recent review. The Lazard Select Australian Equity Fund, which is a high conviction, benchmark unaware fund, was established in 2002 and has outperformed the S&P/ASX 200 since inception. It was upgraded ...

Multi-asset funds rated high but risk disappointment

LAURA MILLAN  |  WEDNESDAY, 11 NOV 2015
... provides "an intuitive and sensible approach to active shorter-term asset allocation, and we have gained increased conviction in the process and the team." However, five Advance Multi-Blend strategies were downgraded from Bronze to Neutral and five Russell ...

SMSFs welcome no dumping of LRBAs

DARREN SNYDER  |  SUNDAY, 8 NOV 2015
... also welcomed by the Self Managed Super Fund (SMSF) Association who said it has always been the association's firm conviction that LRBAs don't pose any systematic risk to the financial system. "Although the government's response to the FSI says it does ...

Prime Value launches SIV fund

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2015
... funds, and a minimum $500,000 in venture capital funds. The fund will follow a similar investment strategy to the high conviction Prime Value Opportunities Fund, which has delivered approximately 14.6% per annum to investors after fees since inception ...

Maple-Brown Abbott global infra fund added to platforms

MARK SMITH  |  TUESDAY, 20 OCT 2015
... calibre retail platforms have approved the fund as an investment option. Our product takes a truly differentiated, high conviction approach and has exhibited lower risk relative to broader equity markets, since its inception." Since inception in December ...

AB fund receives Lonsec rating

ALEX BURKE  |  MONDAY, 12 OCT 2015
... investing in global equity securities." "We are very pleased to receive this rating. We believe the Fund, given its high conviction approach to security selection and its careful management of risk, offers investors a differentiated approach to delivering ...

SSgA launches smart beta multi factor ETF

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 14 SEP 2015
... supplementary or complementary decision to a standard market-cap weighted mandate, depending on the investor's factor conviction, constraints and style," SSGA senior vice president and head of the intermediary business group in Asia Pacific, James MacNevin ...

Perpetual wins RE mandate with seven funds

STAFF WRITER  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2015
... seven funds. In the past three months, Perpetual has won mandates with Dalton Nicol Reid's Australian Equities High Conviction Fund, Aviva Investors' Multi-Strategy Target Return Fund, AQR Style Premia Trust, Harding Loevner Emerging Markets Equity Fund ...