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Avoid AMP Aussie shares fund: Morningstar

RUTH LIEW  |  THURSDAY, 9 DEC 2010
Morningstar has rated the AMP Capital Australian Shares fund as 'avoid', citing instability in the investment team and high staff turnover as key reasons to the fund's rating. In a research note to advisers this morning, research house Morningstar said ...

Median Australian shares fund down: Mercer

ELISE BURGESS  |  WEDNESDAY, 17 NOV 2010
Australian shares have rallied in October after a strong September lead but the median result for Australian share funds were slightly worse than the market, the latest Mercer Survey shows. The median of the Mercer Australian Shares survey for the year ...

Super fund returns fall to just 3.7 pct

COMPANY RELEASE  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 NOV 2010
... (Qld). Vision Super has the top growth fund, ANZ Staff the top balanced fund, AMP Custom Super the top Australian shares fund, AGEST the top international shares fund, AustSafe the top Australian fixed interest fund and TWU Super the top cash fund. The ...

Anglican Diocese signs SRI deal with Mercer

MEDIA RELEASE  |  TUESDAY, 31 AUG 2010
... foundations in the Australia/New Zealand market. Burke cited the launch of the Mercer Socially Responsible Australian Shares Fund, which was developed for the Diocese, is an example of Mercer working with its clients.

452 Capital returns 32pc in Morgan's absence

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 30 JUN 2010
... benchmark by less than 1 per cent (74 basis points). Colonial First State distributes 452 Capital's funds. The Australian shares fund manager retained its 'three stars' rating on the CFS 452 Wholesale Australian Share Fund and CFS 452 Wholesale Geared ...

Dimensional wins Russell mandate

COMPANY RELEASE  |  THURSDAY, 22 OCT 2009
... Russell Investments has selected Dimensional Fund Advisors to manage a 10 per cent mandate within the Russell Australian Shares Fund. Recently released research from Russell Investments reconfirmed that a mild bias to value shares in a core Australian ...

GFC highlights five-year outperformers

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  TUESDAY, 23 JUN 2009
... Rounding up the top five were the Hyperion Australian Growth Companies fund and the Colonial First State WS Australian Shares fund - Core both posting just over 11 per cent during that period - compared to the S&P/ASX 300 Accumulation Index's 6 per cent-plus ...

DDH Graham eyes more QIC funds

RUTH LIEW  |  MONDAY, 1 JUN 2009
... investment menu in March were the Conservative Growth Fund, Balanced Growth Fund, Aggressive Growth Fund, and Australian Shares Fund. The end result was the addition of three diversified funds to the DDH investment menu. Meanwhile, the firm said it would ...

Bellwether hires AFM for mandate search

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  WEDNESDAY, 10 DEC 2008
... uses a quantitative and qualitative investment process to invest in Australian shares. The firm's flagship Australian Shares Fund is a high conviction fund which invests in a maximum 30 large cap stocks. The fund has outperformed the S&P ASX 300 Accumulation ...

Asgard and IOOF add Patriot funds

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 5 DEC 2008
... returned 10.91 per cent per annum, beating its benchmark of 3.51 per cent. During the same period, the firm's Australian Shares Fund also outperformed its 2.29 per cent benchmark by achieving 2.43 per cent returns. Patriot's investment style is to approach ...