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Challenger boutiques and annuities enjoy strong half year

ELISE BURGESS  |  MONDAY, 21 FEB 2011
... funds management firms, Alphinity Investment Management and Novaport Capital, bringing the number of part-owned specialist 'alpha' businesses to ten. As a result of net inflows into these boutiques, Challenger reported a ten per cent growth in its funds ...

Fund managers eye Asian equities: RBC

MATT WOODINGTON  |  TUESDAY, 15 FEB 2011
Fund managers are casting their nets wider into the Asia Pacific region to deliver 'alpha', shunning China and India to boost their portfolio returns, a survey found. The RBC Capital Markets survey reported high levels of confidence in Asian equity ...

Apostle picks up $50m, signs H2O

ELISE BURGESS  |  FRIDAY, 4 FEB 2011
... over one year has generated nearly 24 per cent in return to the end of December, making it ideal for people looking for alpha, which will represent some opportunity for us going ahead," said Borysiewicz. In a separate development, Apostle formed a distribution ...

Solaris rated 'highly recommended'

FUND UPDATE  |  FRIDAY, 28 JAN 2011
... Investment Management has received a 'highly recommended' rating from Lonsec for its Core Australian Equity Fund and the High Alpha Australian Equity Fund. This is the second consecutive year the fund's Core strategy has received Lonsec's highest rating ...

Continuum returns 12.4pc

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... ascertaining what those rules should be," explained Brett McElwee, principal at Continuum. One of the funds aims is to prevent alpha leakage, which McElwee described as "closing the gap between identifying an opportunity and exploiting it." McElwee said ...

Trinity3 names SMA portfolio managers

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 18 JAN 2011
... and demonstrated that capability to run concentrated portfolios, she added. UBS will offer access to its UBS HALO (High Alpha Long Only), UBS HALO Continuously Protected, UBS Australian Small Companies and UBS Property Securities investment capabilities. ...

UCSuper makes debut in infrastructure

RUTH LIEW  |  FRIDAY, 3 DEC 2010
... the alternatives in the portfolios to give it more diversity," said Kent. UCSuper also invests in the BNY Mellon Global Alpha Trust, GMO Systematic Global Macro Trust and Macquarie Professional Series - Winton Global Alpha Fund in its alternatives portfolio. ...

Plato appoints senior portfolio manager

ELISE BURGESS  |  TUESDAY, 30 NOV 2010
... will start in February next year and his responsibilities will include research into quantitative stock selection models, alpha generation, portfolio construction and ESG research. Prior to SSGA, Kennedy worked at Barra and Merrill Lynch as head of equity ...

VIP hedge funds open doors

JOHN MCDULING  |  THURSDAY, 25 NOV 2010
... to some of the world's most exclusive hedge funds, without having to stump up millions of dollars for the privilege. The Alpha Titans Fund offers investors' exposure to 12 hedge funds, at least three of which - Brevan Howard, Bridgewater, BlueCrest - ...

Fixed fee model in slow burn

JOHN MCDULING  |  TUESDAY, 16 NOV 2010
... in mid 2009, proposes that fund managers receive a fixed fee to cover their costs and then performance fees for capturing alpha. Under the existing asset-based fee paradigm, fund managers earn the bulk of their fees based on the amount of funds they ...