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Ascalon buys 50pc stake in Sigrun

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  MONDAY, 23 JUN 2008
Ascalon Capital Managers continues its strategy to buy strong financial services firms, after purchasing a 50 per cent equity stake in high conviction investment manager, Sigrun Asset Management. Sigrun is a quant manager that uses behavioural finance ...

Pentafin recruits ex-Macq head

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 2 MAY 2008
... with separately managed account (SMA) specialist Direct Portfolio, whose majority shareholder is St George owned Ascalon Capital Managers. According to Connie McKeage, chief executive of Pentain, Karrasch approached Pentafin after he heard about the ...

Pentafin and DP step up MA technology

... Pentafin chief Connie McKeage as the head of the merged business. Nick Basile, chief executive of boutique incubator Ascalon Capital Managers, which acquired a majority stake in Direct Portfolio last October, said the merger is the next logical step ...

Ascalon buys stake in TPC

Ascalon Capital Managers Limited has bought a majority stake in The Private Collection (TPC), a distribution business that promotes boutique, international and alternative fund management products to financial planners. "TPC is well positioned to support ...

Ascalon treads global commodity path

RUTH LIEW  |  WEDNESDAY, 5 MAR 2008
... performance of listed property and hedge funds falter in the wake of the US sub-prime disaster, fund managers such as Ascalon Capital Managers are steering their attention to the global commodity sector to maximise investor returns. The St.George and ...

Quant experts enter new continuum

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 31 OCT 2007
... their own boutique - Continuum Capital Management. The new boutique will come under the wing of boutique incubator Ascalon Capital managers. Ascalon chief executive Nick Basile and senior manager of investments Nelson Lam will sit on the Continuum board. ...

Explorer turns new leaf with Ascalon

CHRIS NICHOLLS  |  WEDNESDAY, 12 SEP 2007
Boutique manager Ascalon Capital Managers has purchased 40 per cent of Separately Managed Accounts (SMA) provider Explorer Group from First Capital, ending confusion over the firm's stability. The company had been under a cloud following the purchase ...

St.George rejigs wealth business

... Basile, the bank's general manager in investments and insurance, has been appointed chief executive officer of Ascalon Capital Managers, the bank's joint venture partnership with Kaplan Funds Management. However, some positions have been removed in the ...

Alleron wins big mandate from UFM

... providing out-performance for United Fund Management's clients in the future." Alleron is now part of the St Georges's Ascalon Capital Managers boutique incubator program, with the banking group recently taking a stake in the upcoming manager. But Alleron ...

S&P likes First Samuel's management and Australian shares offerings

... owner runs the organisation as it means his interests will be more easily aligned with those of the investor. Ascalon Capital Managers, a pooled development fund run by St.George, is the other equity holder with a 25 per cent stake in the business. FSL ...