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Bennelong fund wins place with Alpha

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 29 JUL 2009
Multi-manager Alpha Fund Managers has added a Bennelong Funds Management Australian equities fund to its Alpha Fund Series' multi-manager line-up. Launched in October last year, the Bennelong Australian equities strategy is managed by Bennelong Australian ...

Platypus calls for time out

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 8 JUL 2009
... Platypus, the boutique manager had recommended to directors the liquidation of its Australian Long Short Fund and Asian Equities Fund - both with around $25 million each in funds under management. "Our current view is that Platypus is not at a viable ...

GFC highlights five-year outperformers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... Coldplay's Clocks was on top of the charts and, if you invested $1,000 in Perennial, Prime Value or Fidelity's Australian equities fund, that same capital would be worth over $1,700 today. Rainmaker Information data found the Perennial Growth Australian ...

Transition mandates to reach record highs

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
A record number of super funds and endowments will replace their fund managers later this year to get rid of poor-performing funds and make way for new asset allocation strategies, predicts Mellon Transition Management. MTM, the transition management ...

S&P rates former CS funds 'four stars'

PRESS RELEASE  |  FRIDAY, 19 JUN 2009
... after Aberdeen Asset Management bought the funds. The rating includes the Aberdeen Classic Series International Equities fund, Aberdeen Actively Hedged International Equities fund and the Aberdeen Select Inv Actively Hedged Intl Shr fund. The funds bought ...

Active manager mandates to increase: Mercer

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 JUN 2009
Mercer, one of the country's largest asset consultants, is advising its institutional clients to allocate more funds with active managers to capture the one-off abnormal returns coming out of stockmarkets as they switch into recovery mode. Simon Eagleton ...

Asset Super completes intl mandates review

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 15 JUN 2009
... made sweeping changes to its international equities and bonds mandates, dropping seven out of eight international equities fund managers and appointing nine new mandates across both asset classes. Asset Super has discontinued mandates with Capital International ...

Platinum holds steady in upswing

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 JUN 2009
Platinum International fund, the largest global equities fund in Australia with more than $7.6 billion in FUM, ranks as one of the top three performers in global equities in the year to April, but Platinum chief investment officer Kerr Neilson, still ...

Karara pulls retail strategy

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 27 MAY 2009
... Capital advised Standard & Poor's to withdraw the firm's 'four star' rating on both the Karara Capital Australian Equities fund. David Slack, managing partner and chief investment officer at Karara Capital, said current economic conditions forced the ...

India markets up 18pc on election

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2009
... country's equity markets jumping 18 per cent in Australian dollar terms. John Pereira, chief executive of the India Equities Fund, said the election is a fantastic result for Australian investors. "India's reform path has been strong over several different ...