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The lure of the boutique

JOHN MCDULING  |  MONDAY, 8 NOV 2010
... planning, depth of staff and early notification were the keys to retaining ratings after key departures, citing the departure of Ken West from Perennial as an example of a departure that had been handled well. Milton added that despite the increasing ...

Global Capital Investment launch Iraq Fund

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 3 NOV 2010
Global Capital Investments will invest in listed equities on the Iraq Stock Exchange (ISX) through its newly-launched Iraq Fund. The fund will allocate up to 20 per cent of its assets in private, less liquid, early-stage investment opportunities in ...

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 ...

Count selects Lonsec and IRESS

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 25 OCT 2010
One of Australia's largest financial planning groups, Count Financial, has replaced van Eyk with Lonsec as its new research provider, and appointed IRESS as a software partner. Grant Kennaway, general manager of research at Lonsec, said the firm will ...

Pengana hires resources guru

NEWS RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 19 OCT 2010
Pengana Capital has hired former resources analyst and mining executive Ken West as an exclusive consultant for its global resources team. West, a founding partner of Perennial, retired from the boutique after a decade long spell last month. Prior to ...

FPA appoints three directors

FPA RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 13 OCT 2010
Certified financial planners Neil Kendall, Peter O'Toole and Julie Matheson have been elected to the Financial Planning Association board. After 23 candidates stood for the election, Kendall, O'Toole and Matheson were elected as practitioner members ...

Market Wrap - morning

AAP  |  THURSDAY, 16 SEP 2010
... economics news on Thursday, Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA) assistant governor (economic) Dr Philip Lowe, Treasury Secretary Ken Henry and OECD chief statistician Martine Durand are scheduled to speak at the NatStats 2010 conference at Darling Harbour ...

Perennial trusts retain ratings

MEDIA RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 9 SEP 2010
Ken West, one of the founding partners of Perennial Growth Management, retires tomorrow, but his leaving will not affect the ratings of several Perennial products, according to Standard & Poor's. The ratings on the Perennial Growth Shares Wholesale ...

Fearing September

BENJAMIN ONG  |  WEDNESDAY, 1 SEP 2010
Summer has ended - in the Northern Hemisphere that is. But the uncertainty that has befallen Wall Street through the sunny season has not gone away - nor does it look like going anywhere anytime soon. Wall Street may have produced a positive performance ...

Fiduciary duty goes beyond APLs

RUTH LIEW  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
A Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) case hearing concluded that just because a product is within a planning group's approved products list (APL) doesn't mean they have fulfilled their fiduciary duty - prompting top researchers to talk about the role ...