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MFS on expansion trail

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  TUESDAY, 3 NOV 2009
US-based fund manager MFS has increased its market share in global equities funds management by 44 per cent in 12 months - underpinning a worldwide expansion strategy that includes bigger operations in Australia. Visiting Australia last month, MFS chief ...

HESTA pays managers after tax

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 15 OCT 2009
The $13 billion HESTA is taking a new approach to measuring and remunerating Aussie equities fund managers by making them accountable for the tax implications of their decisions. According to a press statement by HESTA, the fund would be the first super ...

Focus on dividend outcome: Insync

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 8 OCT 2009
... long-term income over capital growth should take note of a fresh strategy from new entrant Insync - a specialist global equities fund manager. Monik Kotecha, chief investment officer of the three-month old boutique firm Insync Funds Management, is putting ...

AUI signs Asian equities jv

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  THURSDAY, 24 SEP 2009
... property and global fixed interest. Today it revealed that the latest addition to their fund line-up is an Asian equities fund, to be named Seres Asset Management. The key investment principals driving Seres are Evan Erlanson and Dr. Ken Lu, both of ...

Fundies split on Hatoyama effect

MICHELLE BALTAZAR  |  MONDAY, 7 SEP 2009
... economy, according to the Association of Investment Companies (AIC). The UK-based AIC canvassed the opinion of Japan equities fund managers before the election results were announced and found that the new government, headed by incoming PM Yukio Hatoyama ...

MAP Super seeks alternatives, hires Bennelong

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 3 SEP 2009
... private equity and hedge fund strategies. Meanwhile MAP Super had also added Bennelong Funds Management's Australian Equities Fund into its multi manager portfolio and Australian equities fund-of-fund proposition, the MAP Australian Equity Fund. The ...

S&P withdraws six ratings

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... Investors funds at the request of fund managers. The ratings firm withdrew the 'four stars' rating on the MIR Australian Equities Fund Class A, an Australian equities large cap fund and the 'three stars' rating on the Legg Mason Tactical Asset Allocation ...

Integrity wins $190m United mandate

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 2 SEP 2009
... noted the fund manager. UFM also noted that the new mandate will see less volatility impact the United Australian Equities Fund.

Asset completes investment review

COMPANY RELEASE  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 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 ...

UK pensions seek to award $400m mandates

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 31 AUG 2009
... international shares and index-linked gilts mandates. England's Falkirk Council is hunting for an active global equities fund manager to manage a mandate worth approximately $232 million - or approximately 15 per cent of the fund's assets. The manager ...